Educating the Transnational Lawyer: Globalisation and the Effects on Legal Research Skills Training (original) (raw)

This paper argues that the forces of globalisation and the forecasts of an increasingly cosmopolitan professional future for law graduates, increase the importance of legal research training for the new generation of ‘transnational lawyers’. The contextual issues driving change in the Australian legal education sector, including Australian government interest in fostering research quality, the effects of extensive take-up of information technology in the higher education sector, the growth of trade in professional legal services, and policies aimed at internationalising the legal curriculum all point to a need for more extensive jurisdictional coverage within the legal research education framework. These factors support the need for expanded legal research and communication training at the undergraduate level, together with enhanced offerings at the postgraduate level. First year legal research units have traditionally focussed on inculcating basic research skills. These have ensure...

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