The conference will take place on May 28-30 with an optional field trip on May 31.
The Global Legal Skills Conference focuses on international legal education and essential skills, including legal writing, legal research, legal reasoning, legal English, translations and advocacy skills. Additional topics include creating appropriate materials and assignments, cross-cultural and intercultural issues, classroom teaching, clinical legal education, academic support, international legal exchanges and related fields.
The conference audience will include legal writing professionals, international and comparative law professors, clinical professors and others involved in skills education, law school administrators, law librarians, and ESL/EFL professors. Also attending will be faculty members teaching general law subjects with a transnational or international component. Attendees have also included judges, lawyers, court translators, and others involved in international and transnational law. Attendees come from around the world, and as many as 35 countries have been represented in past conferences.
Optional field trip
The optional field trip will take place on Saturday, May 31 after the conference. This trip is only available for 45 participants. The field trip will begin around 8:00 a.m. and will conclude around 3:00 p.m. Participants will tour the beautiful Lednice Castle (a UNESCO World Heritage site) and explore the castle grounds--unique for its use of both English and French landscaping. Then, participants will be treated to a Morovian lunch before returning to Brno. Transportation on a coach bus will be provided. This field trip will sell out!
