International Association of Law Schools

The International Association of Law Schools (IALS) is a non-profit organization founded in 2005 with a membership of educational institutions, associations, and legal educators from throughout the world. Its members are committed to the proposition that the quality of legal education in any society is improved when students learn about other cultures and legal systems and the diverse approaches to solving legal problems employed in those legal systems.

History

The idea for an international association of law schools emerged from several meetings of legal educators from around the world who recognized the growing inter-relationship of norms from transnational legal systems. The first such meeting, held in Florence, Italy, in 2000 consisted of 50 invited legal educators from twenty-seven countries. This meeting led to additional meetings of international legal educators, the most recent of which was held May 2004 in Hawaii. At this meeting, 130 legal educators from forty-seven different countries unanimously adopted a resolution to form a new international association of law schools. In May 2005 a select group of legal educators from fourteen different countries, representing all types of the world’s legal systems, gathered in Istanbul, Turkey, and agreed to the terms of a charter for the International Association of Law Schools. In October 2005, the IALS was incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia in the United States of America.

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Regional Deans' Meetings Announcement

IALS is sponsoring four regional Deans' Forums throughout the spring of 2012. These workshops are the prelude to the International Deans' Forum to take place in 2013 hosted by the National University of Singapore Law School.

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