The Globalization of Legal Education: A Critical Perspective

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Bryant Garth is a graduate of Yale (1972) Stanford Law School (1975) and the European University Institute in Florence (1979). He began his career working with Mauro Cappelletti on the Florence Access to Justice Project which resulted in five published volumes (1977-1979). He began teaching at Indiana University in 1979 becoming Dean in 1986 then moved to the American Bar Foundation as Director in 1990 staying until 2005. He then became Dean at Southwestern School of Law for seven years before moving to the University of California Irvine School of Law. Two of his seven major books (three edited) on law and globalization co-authored with Yves Dezalay have been given the Herbert Jacob award as best books of that year by the Law and Society Association. Gregory Shaffer received his JD from Stanford Law School (1988) and his BA from Dartmouth College (1980) and practiced law with Coudert Brothers and Bredin Prat in Paris. He started at the University of Wisconsin became Wing Tat Lee Chair at Loyola University Law School Chicago then Melvin C. Steen Professor at Minnesota Law School before becoming Chancellor's Professor of Law at UC Irvine School of Law. He is President-Elect of the American Society of International Law and a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and the Journal of International Economic Law among others.