Blueprint on Global Legal Education

Problem: The blueprint outlines a range of key challenges and trends that law schools face in current times. It also identifies the opportunities emerging in legal education and brings up best practices and recommendations. Moreover, it provides an initial analysis of the best responses to those trends, together with expert opinion on their value and transferability across different types of law schools and jurisdictions.

Data: Ten researchers from seven regions around the world -- UK, Canada, EU, South East Asia & Australia & Hong Kong, Latin America, Asia and Africa— have analyzed relevant literature (over 200 articles), and law schools websites (420 web sites), conducted online surveys (more than 300 responses worldwide) and interviews to more than 60 law schools and bar associations around the world.

Conclusions. The findings of this report are also particularly poignant in the context of COVID-19, which has highlighted the importance of technological adoption in the sector. In particular, the identified key trends include Internationalization, technology and the development of new skills in legal education, while one of the main challenges posed for law schools are regulation of legal education and the profession, an aspect that hinders internationalization and innovation.

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  • Soledad Atienza
  • Sonsoles Arias