Law Schools Global League

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Law Schools Global League
AbbreviationLSGL
FormationJune 21st, 2012
Membership
32 universtities
Presidency
Soledad Atienza, Dean of IE Law School
James Speta, Professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Website lawschoolsgloballeague.com

The Law Schools Global League or LSGL was instituted in 2012 by a selected number of globally leading law schools. [1]

Contents

It has the primary aim of globally promoting and fostering scholastic research on law and legal education as well as encouraging collaboration among its members in the debate on issues impacting global law or legal practice. [2] [3]

Members

LSGL is composed of 32 research universities from 24 different countries and 5 continents, sharing a common vision and at the same time committed to education and research on global law and legal practice, namely: [4]

Objective

LSGL members share a commitment to foster the globalisation of law as well as the integration of global law into their research and teaching. [3]

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References

  1. "About | Law Schools Global League" . Retrieved 2023-08-29.
  2. "Law Schools Global League". Law Schools Global League. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
  3. 1 2 "Mission". 28 December 2016.
  4. "Members". 13 March 2022.