Soochow University, Kenneth Wang School of Law
Suzhou, China
October 17-19, 2007The conference is designed to give law school faculty members and administrators an opportunity to discuss how the law school curriculum could be better designed to teach students about concepts from legal systems other than their own.
The program is premised on the belief that ordinary legal problems admit of many solutions, which may be equally functional and, in context, culturally appropriate. Accordingly, our students need to understand that the particular solution they are taught as applicable in their own legal system may well not be the solution which lies in the minds of the lawyers around the world with whom they will deal in the course of their working lives. Or, in other words, they will constantly need to – and therefore, we also need to – learn from each other. How to train them to have this open-minded and inquisitive approach, is the subject of this conference.
This conference is supported in part by grants from The Wang Family Foundation and
ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd BuceriusIn addition, LexisNexis has provided a grant to support global participation in this conference.
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