International Association of Law Schools
The International Association of Law Schools (IALS) is an independent association of law schools that was established after a series of meetings of legal educators from around the world beginning in 2000.[1] Incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia in the United States in 2005, its secretariat is based at Cornell Law School.[2] Its membership includes over 170 schools from more than 45 countries.[3]
Its President is Francis S.L. Wang, Dean Emeritus of the Kenneth Wang School of Law at Soochow University.[4]
In 2013, the IALS convened the first ever Global Law Deans’ Forum at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. It was attended by 80 deans from 31 countries,[5] as well as judges including Ghanaian Chief Justice Georgina Wood and Diarmuid O'Scannlain from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.[6] The meeting adopted the Singapore Declaration on Global Standards and Outcomes of a Legal Education,[7] which was intended to offer a “common language” for global legal education.[8]
References
- ↑ Phillip G. Bevans and John S. McKay, ‘The Association of Transnational Law Schools’ Agora: An Experiment in Graduate Legal Pedagogy’, German Law Journal, vol. 10, no. 7 (2009), p. 931.
- ↑ IALS, Contacts.
- ↑ International Law School Deans Adopt Global Principles for a Legal Education, Alternative News Network Asia, 30 Sept 2013.
- ↑ IALS, Governing Board.
- ↑ Ian Poh, ‘Introduce “Common Language” for Global Legal Education: NUS Law Dean’, Straits Times, 26 Sept 2013.
- ↑ Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, 23 Sept 2013.
- ↑ Singapore Declaration on Global Standards and Outcomes of a Legal Education (2013).
- ↑ Ian Poh, ‘Introduce “Common Language” for Global Legal Education: NUS Law Dean’, Straits Times, 26 Sept 2013.