Description

Increasing demands are placed on law schools in terms of the teaching of foreign, comparative and international law. The idea of a ‘global law school’ is becoming widespread. How can particular law schools move towards such an objective? A number of options will be explored, each accommodating in some measure global ambitions and local necessities.

About The Speaker

Patrick Glenn is the Peter M. Laing Professor of Law at McGill University and a former Director of the McGill Institute of Comparative Law. He is a Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His publications include Legal Traditions of the World (4th ed., OUP, 2010) and On Common Laws (OUP, 2005). He has been a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, a Killam Research Scholar, and in 2010-11 was the Henry G. Schermers Fellow of The Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies.