The Globalization of Legal Education: A Critical Study

This symposium hosted leading international scholars to discuss issues concerning the globalization of legal education, with topics ranging from global hierarchies and the international movement of students and faculty, to legal education strategies in the Global South. The symposium was co-sponsored by the UCI Law Center on Globalization, Law, and Society (GLAS); the UCI Law Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession (CERLP); the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University; and the UCI Journal of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law.

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Conference Participants

Michelle Burgis-Kasthala

Research Fellow, RegNet
Australian National University

Javier Couso

Professor of Law
Director, Constitutional Law Program
Universidad Diego Portales

Kevin E. Davis

Vice Dean
Beller Family Professor of Business Law
New York University School of Law

José Garcez Ghirardi

Professor, São Paulo Law School
Fundação Getulio Vargas

Bryant Garth

Chancellor's Professor of Law
Co-Director, Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession
UC Irvine School of Law

David Law

Charles Nagel Chair of Constitutional Law and Political Science
Washington University School of Law

Ron Levi

George Ignatieff Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies
Associate Professor
University of Toronto

Philip McConnaughay

Dean
Professor of Law
Peking University School of Transnational Law

Carrie Menkel-Meadow

Chancellor's Professor of Law
UC Irvine School of Law

Mikael Rask Madsen

Professor of Law
University of Copenhagen
Director, iCourts

Anthea Roberts

Associate Professor, RegNet
Australian National University

Gregory Shaffer

Chancellor's Professor of Law
Director, Center on Globalization, Law, and Sociey
UC Irvine School of Law

Carole Silver

Professor of Global Law & Practice
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Ann Southworth

Professor of Law
Co-Director, Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession
UC Irvine School of Law

Veronica Taylor

Professor, RegNet
Australian National University

Oscar Vilhena Vieira

Dean, São Paulo Law School
Fundação Getulio Vargas