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International Initiatives That Facilitate Global Mobility In Higher Education, Laurel S. Terry
International Initiatives That Facilitate Global Mobility In Higher Education, Laurel S. Terry
Laurel S. Terry
This article identifies a number of international initiatives that have contributed to, reflect, or facilitate global higher education mobility. The article begins by presenting statistics about global higher education mobility. The sections that follow address a number of “hard law” and “soft law” international initiatives that promote such mobility. The initiatives discussed in the article include, inter alia, European Union initiatives, the Bologna Process which led to the creation of the European Higher Education Area, and higher education initiatives of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the World Trade Organization, the United Nations, and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and …
Transnational Legal Practice 2009, Laurel S. Terry, Carole Silver, Ellyn Rosen
Transnational Legal Practice 2009, Laurel S. Terry, Carole Silver, Ellyn Rosen
Laurel S. Terry
This article identifies some of the most important U.S. and international developments in transnational legal practice and provides citations for further research. The article begins by briefly reviewing the impact of the recession on legal services. The second section focuses on international developments. It identifies some of the ongoing efforts to implement the 2007 U.K. Legal Services Act, including the issuance of the influential Hunt and Smedley reports. It also provides information about law reform initiatives in France, Scotland and Korea. This section of the article also provides information about Canadian and Australian developments regarding admission of foreign applicants and …