Can Legal Education Be Globalized?
(Law School in Buenos Aires. Thanks to FIERnando) Law is parochial yet it plays a considerable role in globalization. With few exceptions legal education has continued listing towards the local away...
View ArticleLooks Like Norton Rose is Going to Colonize the Rest of the World as well
(thanks to fullhalloween.com) This is not to say that all law firms outside the Big Bang are zombies waiting to be slaughtered. (Although George Romero’s movies are good!) But after commenting on...
View ArticleEating as Globalization…
I am teaching a course at Miami that includes a number of readings on globalization, but I am always searching for better ways to reach students. I think I have found an unusual one with the film,...
View ArticleIs the Axis of Legal Education Shifting to the East?
(Singapore old and new) I’ve been researching the global context of legal education recently and the competition is becoming intense. The usual suspects are UK and US law schools, which compete for...
View ArticleBecoming a Cosmopolitan Lawyer
Peter Lederer and I have revised our paper, “Becoming a Cosmopolitan Lawyer”. It’s available at SSRN here. The paper is based on extensive interviews that Peter and I have done over a few years. It is...
View ArticleDoctor Who–The War Games Revisited
My colleague, Danny Nicol, the Doctor in the centre, is giving a talk and screening a 1969 episode–The War Games–of Doctor Who. It’s taking place on January 22 between 1400 and 1600 in Little...
View ArticleTrade in Services Agreement (TiSA) and Legal Services
(thanks to Wikileaks) Wikileaks has just released 17 documents TiSA related documents. For those of you who haven’t heard of TiSA before it’s the Trade in Services Agreement. It is the largest part,...
View ArticleWhy there are no foreign lawyers in India…
I’ve put up a new version of my paper on foreign lawyers and law firms in India, which sounds like there are and there aren’t. It’s on SSRN.
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