Training Lawyers for a Globalized World in Economic Crisis

Abstract

This paper investigates the issue of the adequate training for lawyers in a globalized world, hit by the current economic crisis. After an introduction (Section I), Section II defines globalization and puts our definition into the specific perspective of the current economic crisis. Our assumption is that if the current crisis is altering some of the globalization components, this process will continue. This leads to our vision of the globalized lawyer (section III). This vision will very much relate to the issue of personal identity and legal certainty in a multijuralist world. We will then very much reckon on the concept of “jurisdiversity”. Hence the characteristics of legal education will derive from this context (section IV). Section V will then present the different innovations in legal education that have been devised and implemented at Paris West University at Nanterre since the 1980s and which spread all over French Law Schools.