The Globalization of Legal Education: A Critical Perspective

The ASIL Teaching International Law Interest Group will hold a discussion of the book The Globalization of Legal Education: A Critical Perspective (open access, Oxford University Press 2022), edited by Bryant Garth and Gregory Shaffer (ASIL President). The event is co-sponsored by the International Legal Theory Interest Group. The book critically examines the processes and transnational diffusion of legal education reforms, studying the influences of empire and imperial competition, U.S. power, and neoliberal economic policies. Professors Garth and Shaffer will be joined by a chapter author Professor Swethaa Ballakrishnan. Professor Md. Rizwanul Islam will be the discussant, and Professor M.J. Durkee will moderate.