Indiana University School of Law launches Center on the Global Legal Profession

From the University's news release:

Indiana University Maurer School of Law Dean Lauren Robel has announced the launch of the school's new Center on the Global Legal Profession. Based at IU Bloomington, the center will focus on the unprecedented challenges lawyers are facing around the world and develop research and training materials to assist current and future attorneys in their understanding of international legal systems.

The Center's mission is laudable. I will enjoy watching the project develop and hope it will create a news mailing list.

"A core competency of lawyers in the future will be their ability to understand the structure of legal professions across the globe and to access knowledge within those structures," Robel said. "The center's work in this area will in turn feed directly back into our legal professions curriculum, where we are training our students on legal ethics and professional responsibility."

Henderson, a nationally recognized leader on the study of the legal profession, said researchers will examine data compiled by the Law Firms Working Group and other sources to identify distinctive patterns and trends across different legal systems and cultures. By finding common ground, legal advocates from across the world will discover new ways of communicating and collaborating, essentially using legal practices as a new international language.

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