The Export of Legal Education

This collection is the multifaceted result of an effort to learn from those who have been educated in an American law school and who then returned to their home countries to apply the lessons of that experience in nations experiencing social, economic, governmental, and legal transition. Written by an international group of scholars and practitioners, this work provides a unique insight into the ways in which legal education impacts the legal system in the recipient’s home country, addressing such topics as efforts to influence the current style of legal education in a country and the resistance faced from entrenched senior faculty and the use of U.S. legal education methods in government and private legal practice. This book will be of significant interest not only to legal educators in the United States and internationally, and to administrators of legal education policy and reform, but also to scholars seeking a more in-depth understanding of the connections between legal education and socio-political change.

Ronald A. Brand is Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for International Legal Education at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the co-author of The 2005 Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and Drafting Contracts Under the CISG (Oxford University Press, 2008). D. Wes Rist is Adjunct Professor of Law and Assistant Director of the Center for International Legal Education at the University of Pittsburgh.