Blueprint for Global Legal Education
Blueprint for Global Legal Education
Developing a blueprint for the future of global legal education
IE Law School has been designated as the coordinator of the research project by the International Bar Association (IBA) and the Law Schools Global League (LSGL) to develop a blueprint for global legal education to understand how globalization and technology impact legal education globally. This ambitious research project outlines a range of key challenges, ranked by importance and categorized by region, facing law schools globally together with existing and suggested responses that selected schools are already taking or could adopt.
Key goals of the project
- Understanding how globalization, technology and the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’, among other drivers, impact legal education globally.
- Identifying the challenges that are common to legal education around the world, while recognizing the significance of local contexts that frame these challenges.
- Identifying the main challenges still present as well as the negative consequences of lack of adaptation.
- Developing common solutions to the challenges while recognizing the necessity of locally-sensitive solutions.
- Generating a compendium of best practices per jurisdiction.
- Disseminating and implementing the model with key stakeholders.
A GLOBAL RESEARCH PROJECT
This joint initiative forms part of the ongoing research by the IBA’s Commission on the Future of Legal Services into the trends that are shaping the legal profession.
More than 400 bar associations, law schools and other legal institutions participated in this project, which culminated culminate in the publication of a report presented at the IBA’s Annual Conference in Miami on November 2020.
BLUEPRINT PROJECT DESCRIPTION : The Three Phases
This global report aims to contribute to legal education around the world by identifying the key drivers that are shaping legal education at a global level, the responses that are emerging, and the extent to which those responses are or can address sufficiently the challenges and opportunities confronting legal professions all over the world.
The research activities were distributed in three different phases:
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Partner Institutions
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INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION
The International Bar Association (IBA), the global voice of the legal profession, is the foremost organization for international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies. Established in 1947, shortly after the creation of the United Nations, it was born out of the conviction that an organisation made up of the world's bar associations could contribute to global stability and peace through the administration of justice.
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LAW SCHOOL´S GLOBAL LEAGUE
The Law Schools Global League (LSGL) brings together more than 25 law schools that share a strong vision about the need to promote a global approach to legal education, research and impact upon society at large.
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