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Lo, Vai lo --- "The Internationalisation of Legal Education: A Road Increasingly Travelled" [2010] ELECD 424; in Hiscock, Mary; van Caenegem, William (eds), "The Internationalisation of Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010)

Book Title: The Internationalisation of Law

Editor(s): Hiscock, Mary; van Caenegem, William

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849801027

Section: Chapter 8

Section Title: The Internationalisation of Legal Education: A Road Increasingly Travelled

Author(s): Lo, Vai lo

Number of pages: 16

Extract:

8. The internationalisation of legal
education: a road increasingly
travelled
Vai Io Lo*

The advent of information technology and the ever-increasing incidence of
international commercial transactions have made it impracticable, if not
impossible, for any country in the world to isolate itself. As diverse legal
systems meet at various junctions, there is the inevitable need for legal
professionals who are conversant with international law and/or the laws
of the countries which they will encounter in their respective practices.
To prepare lawyers and judges for a dynamic and interactive legal world,
legal educators have adopted various measures to internationalise the law
curriculum. Since legal training is a significant constituent of the law, this
chapter is designed to provide an overview of the internationalisation of
legal education.
First and foremost, the `internationalisation of legal education' here
refers to the offering of international law programs or courses, compara-
tive law programs or courses and/or foreign law programs or courses;
participation in international moot court competitions; and undertaking
of research projects on international and comparative law. The research
for this chapter is a review of previous studies and a recent survey of 39 law
schools or faculties in Australia and New Zealand, East Asia, Europe and
North America, all of which have acquired a reputation for being inter-
nationally oriented.1 Based on the research findings, this chapter addresses
three issues: whether legal education should be internationalised; what
efforts have been undertaken to internationalise the law curriculum; and
what challenges legal ...