Imperial A
Hilton San Francisco and Towers
Ballroom Level

Joint Program of the Sections For the Law School Dean, Graduate Programs for Foreign Lawyers, International Legal Exchange, and Post Graduate Legal Education
Kent D. Syverud, Vanderbilt University, and Chair, Section for the Law School Dean
Toni M. Fine, Yeshiva University, and Chair and Program Chair, Section on Graduate Programs for Foreign Lawyers
Ursula H. Weigold, South Texas College of Law, and Chair, Section on International Legal Exchange
Mark A. Rothstein, University of Louisville, and Chair, Section on Post Graduate Legal Education

Working Together: Developing Cooperation in International Legal Education

Moderator:

Toni M. Fine, Yeshiva University

The Honorable Myron H. Bright, Senior Circuit Judge, U.S. Courth of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Fargo, North Dakota
Louis F. Del Duca, The Pennsylvania State University
Peter Ben Friedman, Case Western Reserve University
Carl C. Monk, AALS Executive Director, and Washburn University
Nancy B. Rapoport, University of Houston
Michael P. Scharf, New England School of Law
John E. Sexton, New York University
Frank K. Upham, New York University
Adrien Katherine Wing, University of Iowa

This panel focuses on law school developments that have contributed to the "globalization" of legal education. It is hoped that the information shared at this session can be used by other law schools to create programs that best suit their needs as legal education moves towards even greater globalization efforts.

AALS Executive Director Carl Monk will report on the LaPietra Conference: AALS Conference of International Legal Educators held in Florence, Italy, May 2000. Dean Rappaport will report on student and faculty consortia. Four speakers will report on curricular innovations – Professor Upham will discuss NYU's new graduate program on public international lawyering; Professor Friedman will discuss curricular innovations for foreign-trained LL.M. students; and Dean Sexton and Professor Scharf will report on efforts to internationalize the core J.D. curriculum at their respective law schools. Professor Wing will report on the roll of culture, race, gender, and language in the internationalization of legal education. Finally, Professor Del Duca will report on selected developments in global legal education in Europe. Professor Fine will moderate the discussion.

Back to Thursday schedule