This article looks at globalization in the context of higher legal education. It discusses the history of higher education as a national project and more recent trends and efforts to globalize higher education. The conceptual framework is informed by cosmopolitan, imperial, or national aspirations.

"The school will open in the fall of 2015 in Education City, a 2,500-acre campus located on the western edge of Doha. The new law program will be the first of its kind in the Middle East."

24 Stan. L. & Pol'y Rev. 457 (2013)
Globalization's influence permeates the economy, the state, and civil society, and is felt no less in law than in other fields. For future lawyers, this influence is as significant as technological competence. Just as e-mail, texting, Facebook, and tweets are part of the lexicon and skill-set for the current generation of law graduates, and have remarkably changed patterns of work over the last twenty-five years, so will tomorrow's lawyers be required to understand how to work in a globally diverse environment--whether based on relationships with clients, business executives, jurors, regulators, or other lawyers--as well as in contexts shaped by globalization.

Like American corporations, American colleges and universities have been extending their brands overseas, building campuses, study centers and partnerships, often in countries with autocratic governments. Unlike corporations, universities claim to place ideals and principles, especially academic freedom, over income. But as professors abroad face consequences for what they say, most universities are doing little more than wringing their hands. Unlike foreign programs that used to be faculty-driven, most of the newer ones are driven by administrations and money.

Describes five unique features of law in the U. S. and then addresses the specific questions in a survey distributed by the International Academy of Comparative Law.

Christopher Gane & Robin Hui Huang, eds., 2016. This book identifies the knowledge and skills that law students will require in order to prepare for practice in the era of globalization, and explores pedagogical shifts that legal education needs to make inside and outside of the classroom. Written by leading experts on legal education from various jurisdictions across the globe, the work combines theoretical depth with practical insights.