Global Legal Skills V – Monterrey, Mexico

The Global Legal Skills Conference V will take place  at Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey Feb. 25-27, 2010.

The Global Legal Skills Conference focuses on international legal education and essential skills, including legal writing, legal research, legal reasoning, legal English, translations and advocacy skills. Additional topics include creating appropriate materials and assignments, cross-cultural and intercultural issues, classroom teaching, clinical legal education, academic support, international legal exchanges and related fields.

Most panel presentations will be in English. Spanish language presentations are welcome, encouraged and actively solicited. Where one of the panels is in Spanish, there will be at least one concurrent panel in English.

The organizers seek proposals for individual presentations (15 min.) and panels (60 min.). The submission deadline is Sept. 25, 2009. The proposal form is here.