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Center on Global Legal Profession Launched at University of Indiana

By Carolyn Elefant

Law schools are accustomed to teaching students about precedent and what's been done before, rather than helping them to identify existing trends and figure out how to move forward. But the University of Indiana Maurer School of Law's new Center on Global Legal Profession will break fresh ground, by "focusing on the unprecedented challenges lawyers are facing around the world and develop research and training materials to assist current and future attorneys in their understanding of international legal systems." The National Law Journal offers additional details. True to its global focus, the launch of the Center on the Global Legal Profession was announced in New Delhi at a conference sponsored by the Maurer School of Law and the Jindal Global Law School on on how globalization is affecting the practice of law. Professor William Henderson, (who blogs at the Empirical Legal Studies Blog) will head the new Center, working closely with several other law professors. Says Henderson of the Center: This is the first time we will have legal academics step back and look at the global legal industry as a whole and acknowledge patterns that have evolved over the last few decades ... We will take broad data analysis...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on August 12, 2009 (boomark / email).