Friday, May 12, 2017
Save the Date: December 2018 Global Legal Skills Conference in Melbourne, Australia
It's 18 months away, so you can block out the days on your calendar and start saving your frequent flier miles for a trip to Australia for the next Global Legal Skills Conference.
The 13th Global Legal Skills Conference will be held at Melbourne Law School from December 10-12, 2018.
The Conference will be co-sponsored by The John Marshall Law School of Chicago (where the conference series was founded). The Conference Co-Chairs will be Chantal Morton (Director of the Legal Academic Skills Centre and Director of Teaching at Melbourne Law School) and Mark E. Wojcik (Professor at The John Marshall Law School and founder of the Global Legal Skills Conference Series).
Previous Global Legal Skills Conferences have been held in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Costa Rica, Mexico, and, most recently, Italy. The conference is the leading global conference dedicated to legal skills education, and participants come from around the world to attend the conference. Participants include law professors, professors of English as Second Language, lawyers, judges, court interpreters, law students, language students, and other academics.
The GLS-13 Conference is being presented in cooperation with a number of international organizations, including these organizations already confirmed:
- Scribes--The American Society of Legal Writers
- The Teaching International Law Interest Group of the American Branch of the International Law Association
We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which the Melbourne Law School is situated.
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Thursday, May 11, 2017
Save the Dates! Upcoming ABA International Conferences
The American Bar Association Section of International Law, with more than 20,000 members around the world, has some of the most interesting and productive conferences you'll find. Here's a list of upcoming events. Visit the ABA Section of International Law website for more information on any particular conference or forum.
| June 11-13, 2017: | Europe Forum (Barcelona, Spain) |
| Oct 20-22, 2017: | Pre-Fall Conference Module (San Juan, Puerto Rico) |
| Oct 24-28, 2017: | Section of International Law Fall Conference (Miami, Florida) |
| Jan 31-Feb 6, 2018: | ABA/Section Midyear Meeting (Vancouver, Canada) |
| April 17-21, 2018: | Section of International Law Annual Conference (New York City) |
| June 10-12, 2018: | Europe Forum (Copenhagen, Denmark) |
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Friday, May 5, 2017
Cleveland-Marshall Announces New Dean
The Cleveland State University Board of Trustees announced that the next dean of the Cleveland State University Cleveland-Marshall School of Law will be the current interim dean, former Ohio Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher. Dean Fisher is described as a Clevelander who has dedicated his life to public service and social justice, and that he is coming to the law school with the intent of collaboratively running an institution dedicated to preparing its students to make this world a better place. Congratulations, Cleveland-Marshall and Dean Fisher.
Hat tip to km.
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