NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Kent D. Syverud, dean and Garner Anthony
Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, joined legal
educators representing more than 45 countries and all of the world’s
legal systems today to hammer out a "global curriculum" for law
schools.
More than 130 leading legal educators gathered at the invitation of
the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in Oahu, Hawaii, for a
three-day conference on "Educating Lawyers for Transnational
Challenges." This is the first time legal educators from around the
world have met to consider how best to educate lawyers for the practice
of law across international boundaries.
"More and more, lawyers must understand other cultures and legal
systems," said Syverud, who is giving a closing plenary address at the
conference and also is president of the American Law Deans Association.
"It is my hope that this conference will assist in enhancing
international law, foreign law and comparative law instruction in the
United States and abroad."
Carl C. Monk, executive director of AALS, said, "Attendance at this
conference by representatives of more than three dozen countries
signals the recognition within the international community of legal
educators of the need to better prepare today’s law students to
practice in an increasingly transnational environment."
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