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8 Int'l J. Legal Prof. 5 (2001)

handle is hein.journals/injlepro8 and id is 1 raw text is: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION, VOL. 8, NO. 1, 2001 EDITORIAL Globalisation and legal education DAVID SUGARMAN & AVROM SHERR I In recent years, the meaning of globalisation for the character and future of legal education has started to receive sustained attention. A diverse, transnational group of scholars has begun to clarify both the processes by which globalisation impacts on legal education, and legal education impacts on globalisation.1 Because the interface between globalisation and legal education is important, and has only recently begun to be investigated, we present several case studies and over- views of the impact of globalisation on legal education, embracing different national and theoretical perspectives in order to complement and extend the existing literature. In this special issue, an international team of scholars addresses the challenges to law schools posed by globalisation. How is globalisation impacting on the ways of thinking, teaching and collaborative enterprise that have characterised legal education and scholarship, and the culture of the field of law, in late modernity? How might we understand, criticise and reconstruct the present form(s) of globalisa- tion? Taken together the essays in this special issue offer a wide-ranging exploration of the cultural, economic, intellectual and ideological processes through which the identity and culture of law schools are being reconfigured, debated and articulated in the era of globalisation. In particular, issues of deprofessionalisation, professional autonomy, commercialism, and alternative mechanisms of regulation and control within different national professional arenas-issues which have received rather more extended treatment in the context of recent trends in the organisation of lawyers and legal services-are examined and problematised. The range and complexity of the issues raised by globalisation are such that ours is inevitably a limited foray into relatively uncharted waters. In addition to imparting an organised body of knowledge, however, we hope to bring the globalisa- tion debate closer to home and start a conversation about the kind of law schools and legal practices that could and should be sustained in societies characterised both by economic integration and legal, economic, political and cultural diversity. ISSN 0969-5958 print/ISSN 1469-9257 online/0 1/010005-06 © 2001 Taylor & Francis Ltd DOI: 10.1080/09695950120111191

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