The Globalization of the Legal Profession

For anyone interested in the  economic and political forces that are reshaping the legal profession, here is an event that you need to attend.  On Friday, November 21, the Harvard Law School Program on the Legal Profession and the American Society of International Law are sponsoring a conference entitled "The Globalization of the Legal Profession."  Conference registration is free, but space is limited.  Details are online here.

Back in April, the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at GULC put on a conference entitled the "Future of the Global Law Firm."   Similar to upcoming program at Harvard, speakers included academics, practitioners, clients, and allied professionals.  The shared sense of rapid and major structural change was palpable.    I consider the upcoming program an important extension of that conversation. 

Further, as I reflect on the proliferation of so-called "global law schools" in China and India, which are being set up to serve major US and UK legal employers (and a topic at the HLS event), I am convinced that globalization will eventually reshape the  American legal education system.   Now is the time to plan; in ten years, the majority of law schools could be in the uneviable position of reacting to a major structure change.

Comments

[dave hoffman]

I hope you will consider blogging the conference for those of us who can't get there...

[Archana]

I would also love to hear about the conference on your blog. The Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies did an issue a few years ago on the globalization of the legal profession (I think you wrote the intro?) - very interesting topic for the future of legal education. Thanks!