Papers on Legal Education
Below is a selected list of papers that discuss legal education and its reform, in countries across the globe. Some of these papers were presented at or are based on discussions held at legal education conferences.
- Japan’s New Legal Education System: Towards International Legal Education?This "article is based on a paper given at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the International Consortium on Legal Education held from July 3-5, 2005, at Yeditepe University, Faculty of Law, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Legal Education Reform in India:Dialogue Among Indian Law TeachersThis link is to the abstract to this paper. To access the complete version, use the link to SSRN on the Articles and Working Papers page of this LibGuides.
- Ten Major Changes in Legal Education Over the Past 25 YearsPaper dated 2005.
Past Conferences
Many conferences have been held over the last decade, in both the US and in other countries, to discuss the future of legal education. Clicking on the links below will take you to the websites for those conferences, so you can see what initiatives and problems have been discussed. These websites can also provide you with information on speakers and leaders in the field of legal education concerned with both domestic and international issues, as the field of legal education becomes more globalized.
- International Conference on the Future of Legal EducationConference held in 2008 at George Washington Law School. "Many of the conference speakers, especially from other countries, gave concrete examples of how to create a new law school and how to transform an existing law school into a model of innovative legal education."
- International Consortium on Legal EducationFirst held in 2004, this conference was held to "deepen and expand academic links throughout the world in the promotion of the internationalization of legal education. The Consortium will seek to build on various frameworks for improving legal curricula, develop student and faculty models of exchange, and establish innovative joint research activities."