Internationalizing U.S. Legal Education: A Report on the Education of Transnational Lawyers

Authors

• Carole Silver, Northwestern University School of Law

Abstract

This Article analyzes the role of U.S. law schools in educating foreign law graduates and the increasingly competitive global market for graduate legal education. U.S. law schools have been at the forefront of this competition, but little has been reported about their graduate programs. This Article presents original research on the programs and their students, drawn from interviews with directors of graduate programs at thirty five U.S. law schools, information available on law school web sites about the programs, and interviews with graduates of U.S. graduate programs. Finally, the Article considers the responses of U.S. law schools to new competition from foreign universities for the job of educating the world's lawyers.

Disciplines

Education Law | Law | Legal Education | Legal Profession

Recommended Citation

Carole Silver, Internationalizing U.S. Legal Education: A Report on the Education of Transnational Lawyers, 14 Cardozo J. Int'l & Comp. L. 143 (2006).
Available at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cjicl/vol14/iss1/6