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TOPIC II.C.2 DAVID S. CLARK Transnationa l Legal Practice : The Nee d for Global La w Schools I. INTRODUCTION A common veneer of Western legal forms has settled in almost everywhere. Even in places where there are Asian law traditions, Islamic or other religious law traditions, or indigenous law traditions, they usually coexist with one of th e dominant Western models. In addition, international law—itself a product of Western thought— provides the rules and institutions by which a nation interacts at a transnational level. The conclusion is tha t all nations today need at least some lawyers trained in Western law. I believe tha t the wheel of legal history has turned to the point where what is common to law in general and the similarities among local laws are sufficiently important that it makes sense to recreate th e truly global law school. I argue in this paper that the United States is ideally situated as the locale for the first wave of these global law schools. II. THE UNITED STATES AS A LOCATION FOR GLOBAL LAW SCHOOLS First, jus t as Italy wa s th e center of world commerce in th e 12th century, providing
American Journal of Comparative Law – Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 1, 1998
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