I'm pleased to report that the Drexel Law Review will be hosting a conference, Building Global Professionalism: Emerging Trends in International and Transnational Legal Education, this weekend. The journal has worked with my colleagues Anil Kalhan and Pam Saunders to put together a particularly interesting set of panels and a keynote talk by Martin Flaherty. From the program:
As the practice of many areas of law — including those
conventionally regarded as wholly domestic — has come
to have international and transnational dimensions, it has
become increasingly important for graduating law students
to have greater knowledge and understanding of international, comparative, and transnational legal perspectives
as part of their basic legal education. While most U.S.
law schools have not traditionally placed these aspects of
legal education, legal practice, and the legal profession at
the core of their pedagogical missions, a growing number
of law schools have sought to more proactively develop
the place of these global perspectives in their educational
programs. This symposium examines and assesses a series
of conceptual and practical themes at the leading edge
of these developments, including innovative approaches to
integrating international, transnational, and comparative
perspectives into the law school curriculum; pioneering
methods of bringing these perspectives into experiential
and legal methods programs; and critical perspectives on
all of these emerging ideas and trends.