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Global Legal Skills Conference ruler
For Immediate Release
June 2, 2009

Media Contact:
Kara Tershel, (202) 662-9500

MEDIA ADVISORY

WHAT:

Global Legal Skills Conference

 

WHEN:

Thursday, June 4 - Saturday, June 6, 2009

 

WHERE:

Georgetown University Law Center
McDonough Hall, Room 202

600 New Jersey Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C.  20001

 

SCHEDULE:

THURSDAY, JUNE 4

3:45 - 5:00 p.m.

Opening Panel: What Are Global Legal Skills, and How Should (Can, Might) Law Schools Teach Them?

Craig Hoffman, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Katerina Lewinbuk, Professor, South Texas College of Law

Mary Barnard Ray, Senior Lecturer, University of Wisconsin Law School

Jose M. de Areilza, Dean, IE Law School, Madrid, Spain

Matt Firth, TransLegal, Innsbruck, Austria; University of St. Gallen, Switzerland; and Hochschule Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

 

FRIDAY, JUNE 5

9:00 - 10:00 a.m.

Panel 1: What Legal Education Ought to be Doing to Prepare Students to Practice in the Global Economy

Carole Silver, Executive Director, Center for the Study of the Legal Profession and Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center

Jeff Lehman, Dean, Peking University School of Transnational Law

Lee Buchheit, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Panel 2: Biculturalism: The Need to be Aware of How Culture and Ethnicity Shape Identities, Learning Styles, and Attitude Toward Conflict Resolution

Katerina Lewinbuk, Professor, South Texas College of Law

Julie M. Spanbauer, Professor, John Marshall Law School

2:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Panel 3: Creating and Managing CLE Programs for Global Organizations

Tina Stark, Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Transactional Law and Practice, Emory University School of Law

Maria S. Alkiewicz, Associate, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP

Charles B. Craver, Professor, George Washington University Law School

John Claydon, Lex Mundi

 

SATURDAY, JUNE 6

9:00 - 10:00 a.m.

Panel 4: The Future Direction of Global Legal Education in Japan

Jay Klaphake, Professor, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan

Leonardo Ciano, Professor, Kansai University of Foreign Studies, Osaka, Japan

Dan Rosen, Professor, Chuo University Law School, Tokyo, Japan

Richard Barron Parker, Professor, Hiroshima Shudo University, Hiroshima, Japan

Carl Goodman, Adjunct Faculty, Georgetown University Law Center

11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Panel 5: Teaching the 'Right Skills'

Jose M. de Areilza, Dean, IE Law School, Madrid, Spain

Marisa Mendez, Professor, IE Law School, Madrid, Spain

James Moliterno, Professor, Washington & Lee University School of Law

Gregory J. Marsden, Professor, IE Law School, Madrid Spain

 

NOTE:

The participants will explore ways that law schools from around the world can adjust their curriculums to prepare students to engage in the global legal marketplace.

More information can be found at https://www.law.georgetown.edu/cle/showEventDetail.cfm?ID=203.

Media interested in attending should e-mail mediarelations@law.georgetown.edu.