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Reflections On Us Involvement In The Promotion Of Clinical Legal Education In Europe, Philip Genty
Reflections On Us Involvement In The Promotion Of Clinical Legal Education In Europe, Philip Genty
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What is the influence of the United States on European clinical legal education? The first reaction of many would be that this is not a particularly difficult question to answer. After all, clinical legal education is largely a US invention. Although one can find early examples of clinics in European law schools, the large-scale development of law school clinical education happened in the United States beginning in the 1960s. At present, there are clinical programs in each of the 207 American Bar Association (ABA)-approved US law schools. The Clinical Legal Education Association now lists 1,325 clinical teachers in its membership …
Does Brexit Spell The Death Of Transnational Law?, Ralf Michaels
Does Brexit Spell The Death Of Transnational Law?, Ralf Michaels
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The British leave vote in the referendum on EU membership has important implications for how we think about law . The vote must be viewed as a manifestation of a globalized nationalism that we find in many EU member states and many other countries. As such, it is also a challenge of the idea of transnational law, forcefully introduced in Jessup’s book on Transnational law 60 years ago. In this paper, I suggest that the hope to return from transnational law to the nation state of the 19th century is nostalgic and futile. However, I argue that transnational law has …