LawAhead Hub Born to disrupt. Driven by knowledge. Powered by community.
SHAPING THE FUTURE OF LEGAL EDUCATION, PROFESSIONS AND SYSTEMS
The LawAhead Hub is an open, collaborative ecosystem created to build a Global Smart legal Community of global law firms, law schools, companies and key players, to explore the causes and consequences of deep transformations taking place in legal education, legal professions and legal systems globally.
What we do
Societies worldwide are facing deep and unprecedented transformations, which impose tremendous challenges and generate opportunities for legal systems, legal professions, and legal education.
The LawAhead Hub aims to engage a Global Smart Legal Community in the analysis of trends and the exchange of knowledge to think, anticipate and foster possible solutions to the most pressing issues facing the legal sector.
Activities & Iniciatives
We were born to disrupt! LawAhead Hub generates cutting-edge research and knowledge that cuts across disciplines and frontiers, leading the conversation through four different outputs:
Publications
Expert-written, sharp, global and future oriented focus publications will be continuously generated and widely disseminated to share knowledge that is insightful, impactful and directed to breaking barriers between academia, practice and policy makers around the globe.
Events
Global and future oriented events, bringing experts from the world over to address key changes to legal education, legal practice and legal systems will gather together members of the community. A number of those events will be held for LawAhead members only, while others will be open to the entire legal community.
Research projects
Publications and events are gateways to the development of research projects that seek to better understand underlying transformations in legal education, the legal profession and legal systems, with a view to effect change for the better.
Lifelong Learning
As a law school, we are committed with lifelong learning. Round tables and workshops composed of key players in the legal sector will be periodically held to explore educational needs of all players. We will leverage the insights, knowledge and expertise of our faculty and leading experts across the globe to provide solutions that are relevant to today’s most pressing legal challenges.
Future-oriented events
In this enriching space, experts from around the world and members of the LawAhead Hub community come together to discuss about the future trends and challenges facing the legal sector. Learn more about our past events!
Check out the discussion on regulations and blockchainAREAS OF INTEREST
To understand the complexity of legal systems, the transformation of the legal industry and the future of education, we foster different activities and research that cuts across disciplines and promote collaboration between academics and practitioners from a different fields and areas of the law –from Science and Technology to Management and Humanities.
The main areas of interest are:
Global & Business
Access to articlesManagement, Innovation & Technology
Access to articlesCompliance
Access to articlesRegulated Sectors
Access to articlesHumanities & Sciences
Access to articlesManagement Team
Editors & Advisers
Our editors and advisers, who guide the LawAhead Hub activities in their areas of expertise, are thinkers and experts at the top of their field, or disrupting it.
Jaime Folguera
Partner of Uría Menendez, specialized in EU Law, Competition Law and International Trade
Soledad Atienza
Vice-Dean of International Relations and Director of Undergraduate Programs, IE Law School
Maria Hernandez
Partner/Head of Compliance, Eversheds Sutherland Nicea and Academic Director Master in Global Corporate Compliance
Guest Speakers
Top experts from all over the world join LawAhead to contribute with their knowledge and expertise in order to drive its vision and mission.
Daniel W. Linna Jr.
Attorney; LegalRnD Director & Law Prof, MSU Law; Adjunct Law Prof, Michigan Law; Affiliated Faculty, Stanford CodeX
Nelson Rosario
Principal at Smolinski Rosario Law P.C., Adjunct Law Prof at Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law
Interested in being part of our community?
LawAhead Hub is an exclusive members club. We constantly seek to connect with global legal firms, leaders and institutions.
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