Global Legal Skills Conference

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The Global Legal Skills Conference is a resource for law professors, ESL professionals, and other who teach international legal skills and legal writing to persons who speak English as a second language. The GLS Conference Series also includes award presentations to recognize outstanding contributions to the field of international legal skills education. [1]

The first Global Legal Skills conference was held in 2005 at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, a specialized conference connecting legal writing professionals who had an interest in teaching international students and lawyers who spoke English as a second language. [2] The conference series was important because a growing number of lawyers and law students had begun to attend law schools in the United States and other English-speaking countries, and they needed to have special language training in Legal English and related courses. [3] The conference was founded by Professor Mark E. Wojcik of The John Marshall Law School. [4] The GLS Conference series has since grown to include legal writing faculty, international and comparative law professors, clinical faculty, linguists, librarians, judges, attorneys, court translators, law students, and scholars interested in global legal skills education. [5]

Since its inception, the conference has been held four times in Chicago, twice in Mexico, twice in Costa Rica, once in Washington D.C., and twice at the University of Verona Department of Law in Italy. [6] [7]

The conference series now also includes presentations of the Global Legal Skills Awards for innovations in international legal skills education. [8] Awards have been presented to individual professors for their teaching and academic leadership, for outstanding scholarship and books advancing the field of global legal skills education, for the institutional vision of law firms and other institutions with specialized training in global legal skills, and for law schools in the United States and other countries that have special international skills training programs for law students and lawyers. [9] [10] Winners of Global Legal Skills Awards through 2016 have been from Costa Rica, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "GLS Awards | Global Legal Skills Conference | University of Illinois Chicago".
  2. ↑ "About | Global Legal Skills Conference | University of Illinois Chicago".
  3. ↑ "About | Global Legal Skills Conference | University of Illinois Chicago".
  4. ↑ "About | Global Legal Skills Conference | University of Illinois Chicago".
  5. ↑ "About | Global Legal Skills Conference | University of Illinois Chicago".
  6. ↑ "Past Conferences | Global Legal Skills Conference | University of Illinois Chicago".
  7. ↑ "Global Legal Skills Conference". Archived from the original on 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
  8. ↑ "GLS Awards | Global Legal Skills Conference | University of Illinois Chicago".
  9. ↑ "GLS Awards | Global Legal Skills Conference | University of Illinois Chicago".
  10. ↑ Awards and Prizes, Chronicle of Higher Education, Mar. 25, 2016, at A33.
  11. ↑ "GLS Awards | Global Legal Skills Conference | University of Illinois Chicago".
  12. ↑ "Global Legal Skills Conference V".
  13. ↑ "Global Legal Skills Conference". Archived from the original on 2016-06-05. Retrieved 2016-03-26.
  14. ↑ "Global Legal Skills Conference". Archived from the original on 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
  15. ↑ "Legal Writing Prof Blog".
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