Abstract
The term “globalization” has been applied to everything from economics and technology to social media and market trends. Its use has become somewhat of a cliché1, and it is almost impossible to read a treatment of globalization that does not acknowledge the ambivalence and hyperbole surrounding the term. The phrase “globalization of legal education” has the power to conjure visions of sophisticated lawyers-in-the-making jockeying for positions in transnational mega firms, or interning at international courts and dreaming of combating injustice on an international scale. It has been posited that a working knowledge of the global legal landscape is as indispensible to today’s legal graduate as a working knowledge of digital technological advances.2 Can law really be taught at a global scale, or is it still the province of domestic authority? A global lawyer may work in numerous jurisdictions, or at least one different from where they were taught. How does their education prepare them for that possibility? Can a global lawyer work in foreign jurisdictions in matters of private law? Is the “globalization of legal education” just a marketing equivocation for classes conducted in a common language, or about the international legal regime – or is there something substantively and pedagogically distinctive about the endeavor? How should global legal education translate into practice in 2015? This paper endeavors to explore the intersection between globalization of law and globalization of legal education.
Highlights
GLOBALIZATION OF LAWInvoking the term “globalization” reminds us that, in today’s world where barriers to goods, services, capital and knowledge are increasingly dismantled,[3] global turns local and local turns global
The phrase “globalization of legal education” has the power to conjure visions of sophisticated lawyers-in-the-making jockeying for positions in transnational mega firms, or interning at international courts and dreaming of combating injustice on an international scale
How doestheir education prepare them for that possibility? Can a global lawyer work in foreign jurisdictions in matters of private law? Is the “globalization of legal education” just a marketing equivocation for classes conducted in a common language, or about the international legal regime – or is there something substantively and pedagogically distinctive about the endeavor? How should global legal education translate into practice in 2015? This paper endeavors to explore the intersection between globalization of law and globalization of legal education
Summary
Invoking the term “globalization” reminds us that, in today’s world where barriers to goods, services, capital and knowledge are increasingly dismantled,[3] global turns local and local turns global. “globalization” has come to mean more than merely “international” in scope – reflecting a merging of the global and local into a connected whole, rather than a more narrowly defined transnationalism5 – there is typically less trouble “globalizing” public international law than private domestic law. This is so for the obvious reason that public international law operates “globally,” involving a unified regime of law (despite particular differences in national application). Is there any room for “globalization” to contextualize the teaching and practice of private domestic law?
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