Law Without Walls: The Globalization of the Legal Market

Law Without Walls is the new program spearheaded by Beardslee in an effort to teach law students of today about the increasingly global market they will face when practicing law tomorrow.

According to Beardslee, ''Today's world is no longer contained by country boundaries. The lawyers of tomorrow, if they want to be successful, are going to have to interact with businesspeople from around the world.''

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The network of schools participating in Law Without Walls are The University of Miami, Peking University School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen, China, Harvard Law School, Fordham University of Law, New York Law School, and University College London.

The realization that lawyers are now dealing with a global world, in which, as Beardless stated, countries are no longer boundaries, is not a widely contested idea. In fact, several law schools currently offer programs in other countries.

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According to The National Law Journal, ''Nearly 130 of the 200 American Bar Association-approved law schools already offer ABA-sanctioned programs in foreign countries during breaks in the regular school year, and now the organization is weighing whether to offer accreditation to overseas law schools.''

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