Christophe Jamin

The Internationalisation of Legal Education: General Report for the Vienna Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, 20–26 July 2014

As the phenomenon of “globalization” (however defined) is making ever more progress, legal education cannot remain indifferent to the increasingly important challenge of adapting the law and the lawyers to this new reality. The Internationalisation of Legal Education (“IOLE”), studied in this General Report, regroups the various answers to this challenge. This Report concludes that IOLE, mostly developed on a decentralized and ad hoc basis, is still very limited. A common scheme seems to emerge, that sees a strong division between undergraduate studies, focused on domestic legal systems, and more diversified and internationalized graduate degrees and programs.