International Association of Law Schools

The International Association of Law Schools (IALS) is an independent association of law schools that was established after a series of meetings of legal educators from around the world beginning in 2000.[1] Incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia in the United States in 2005, its secretariat is based at Cornell Law School.[2] Its membership includes over 170 schools from more than 45 countries.[3]

Its President is Francis S.L. Wang, Dean Emeritus of the Kenneth Wang School of Law at Soochow University.[4]

In 2013, the IALS convened the first ever Global Law Deans’ Forum at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. It was attended by 80 deans from 31 countries,[5] as well as judges including Ghanaian Chief Justice Georgina Wood and Diarmuid O'Scannlain from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.[6] The meeting adopted the Singapore Declaration on Global Standards and Outcomes of a Legal Education,[7] which was intended to offer a “common language” for global legal education.[8]

References
  1. Phillip G. Bevans and John S. McKay, ‘The Association of Transnational Law Schools’ Agora: An Experiment in Graduate Legal Pedagogy’, German Law Journal, vol. 10, no. 7 (2009), p. 931.
  2. www.ialsnet.org http://www.ialsnet.org/contacts. Retrieved 2020-07-27. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. "Post not found? – altnews.asia". altnews.asia. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  4. www.ialsnet.org http://www.ialsnet.org/ials/board/. Retrieved 2020-07-27. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. migration (2013-09-26). "Introduce "common language" for global legal education: NUS law dean". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  6. Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, 23 Sept 2013.
  7. Singapore Declaration on Global Standards and Outcomes of a Legal Education (2013).
  8. migration (2013-09-26). "Introduce "common language" for global legal education: NUS law dean". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
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