During the past decade, a number of US law schools have imaginatively created distinctive approaches to globalizing their programs to facilitate development of lawyers with skills and values required to address client needs and economic, political, social and moral issues raised by the globalization process. Program panelists will share the challenges, experiences, and insights they gained in developing and implementing their law school’s globalization program. The various models they discuss will provide choices, which can be selected and tailored to address needs, interests and missions of individual law schools. The models will be discussed in the context of the upsurge in global activities affecting legal practice, including transnational trade and investment; the emergence of multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations and individuals as actors and claimants in the globalized arena; the availability of cyberspace communication and information retrieval systems made possible by the internet and other technologies; efforts by civil society and others to humanize and civilize the globalization process, etc. The program format will reserve specific time for panelist presentations and assure equal time for panel and audience interactions and discussion.
The Advisory Committee on Global Engagement offers this program in the belief that: (a) in the 21st century, ALL lawyers will need to be competent globally, no matter their area of practice; and (b) given the economically challenging times all law schools face, effective global legal education will require sharing and building collaborative approaches.
· An Introductory Semester Course: The Challenge of Cohesion
· An Introductory Pre-Semester Workshop: Maximizing Limited Curricular Space
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