The Global Legal Skills Conference is an international conference that fosters the support and development of legal skills training for law students and advocates around the world. Originally conceptualized and organized by Mark Wojcik, the Global Legal Skills Conferences have focused on international legal education and essential skills, including legal writing, legal research, legal reasoning, legal English, translations and advocacy skills. Presentations have included application of pedological methods to support the design and creation of appropriate materials and assignments, recognizing and addressing cross-cultural and intercultural issues, classroom teaching, clinical legal education, academic support, international legal exchanges and related fields.
The conference audience has included 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. Additionally in attendance are 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.
