Symposia

Future Ed Conference: Second Meeting October 15–16, 2010

New Business Models for U.S. and Global Legal Education

Presented with the Institute for Information Law and Policy.

New York Law School and Harvard Law School are hosting a year-long contest of ideas about legal education. The goal is to come up with operational alternatives to the traditional law school business model and to identify concrete steps for the implementation of new designs. The kickoff event consisted of a two-day conference for educators, employers, and regulators at New York Law School on April 9–10, 2010. Participants met to identify problems, innovations, and constraints, and to organize working groups to develop designs and strategies for implementation. Working groups are currently in the process of refining their ideas in preparation for the conference's second meeting, which will be held at Harvard Law School on October 15-16, 2010. The October meeting will focus on the globalization of legal education and a comparison of professional education in the law and other fields. Final designs will be presented, with commentary, at New York Law School in April, 2011.

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