Second Call for Contributions

to contribute to a Symposium Issue of the German Law Journal

"Following the Call of the Wild: The Promises and Perils of Transnationalizing Legal Education"

The Editors of the German Law Journal – www.germanlawjournal.com - invite all interested legal scholars to submit manuscripts for a Symposium Issue dedicated to a critical assessment of the ongoing, transnational debate on Legal Education Reform. The German Law Journal, an anonymously refereed legal periodical, published monthly with a global distribution to over 9.000 scholars and legal practitioners, has been a longstanding forum for a critical debate around the questions of internationalization, foundation fields and practice orientation in law school curriculum reform. The Symposium Issue aims at bringing together voices from around the world concerning the differently experienced and formulated challenges in legal education in order to initiate a continuing global level thought exchange based on specific aspects of legal education that it has identified.

Requirements: 300 word abstracts should be submitted to the editorial board submissionsglj@osgoode.yorku.ca via email as word documents or PDF files, along with current contact information and C.V. by November 1st 2008. Please include your name within the name of files that you are attaching and also state in the abstract the specific area of the special issue your paper will address. No late submissions will be accepted. Accepted authors will be notified by November 14th, 2008, along with full submission guidelines. Full papers are due January 31st, 2009.

Background: Karl Llewellyn, as early as 1935, in his article entitled On What's Wrong with So-Called Legal Education questioned whether the law school in fact knew what it was training students for. His article raises the surprisingly current issues of the interrelationship between legal professionalism and legal scholarship, the development of practice oriented legal skills and the integration of legal context into every course. In order to delve into these dilemmas on both a comparative and more critical level, the editorial board of the German Law Journal invites contributions for a special symposium...