ABSTRACT
Commentators often lament that the American legal curriculum does not adequately focus on comparative law teaching, and that this reality has important adverse consequences for legal practice. Put simply, American lawyers are not prepared for the transnational challenges that go hand-in-hand with globalization. The natural solution for the law school would be to inject more comparative law into the curriculum. This would arguably improve the situation in legal practice. However, this article demonstrates that there are barriers to realizing that outcome. This article argues that law librarians are well-placed to, in some measure, overcome these barriers by cross-institutionally designing for-credit comparative legal research courses. These courses could be implemented in interested law schools across the country.
Liptrap, JS, The Dearth of Comparative Law Courses in the Curriculum: Implications for Practice and What Law Librarians Can Do About It (June 17, 2024), (2024) 43(3) Legal Reference Services Quarterly 160-176.
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