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AALS Panel – Global Legal Education – Maximizing the Internationalization of U.S. Students’ Legal Education: Ideas for Making the Most of Your Resources
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2019
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My colleagues on this panel address the need for more internationalization in U.S. law schools and describe some of the difficulties in internationalizing instruction at a law school in a new European Union member state. As they acknowledge, internationalizing legal education can be expensive, competing with other budgetary demands on U.S. law schools. My remarks today will suggest methods to maximize internationalization less expensively, by using existing programs or by setting up new ones more effectively. Although composed for an audience of U.S. law school faculty members and administrators, these remarks, with some adaptation, may be useful for law faculty outside the United States.
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1 I want to acknowledge the leadership and vision of Associate Dean Horowitz, Judith A., who has been administering the international programs at Duke Law for over twenty years, and who is to be credited for many of the ideas described in these remarks.Google Scholar
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