International Association of Law Schools

The International Association of Law Schools (IALS) is an independent association of law schools that was established after a series of meetings of legal educators from around the world beginning in 2000.^[1] Incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia in the United States in 2005, its secretariat is based at Cornell Law School.^[2] Its membership includes over 170 schools from more than 45 countries.^[3]

Its president is Francis S.L. Wang, Dean Emeritus of the Kenneth Wang School of Law at Soochow University.^[4]

In 2013, the IALS convened the first-ever Global Law Deans’ Forum at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. It was attended by 80 deans from 31 countries,^[5] as well as judges including Ghanaian Chief Justice Georgina Wood and Diarmuid O'Scannlain from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.^[6] The meeting adopted the Singapore Declaration on Global Standards and Outcomes of a Legal Education,^[7] which was intended to offer a “common language” for global legal education.^[8]

References

1. Phillip G. Bevans and John S. McKay, ‘The Association of Transnational Law Schools’ Agora: An Experiment in Graduate Legal Pedagogy’, German Law Journal, vol. 10, no. 7 (2009), p. 931.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
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6. "Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, 23 Sept 2013". Archived from the original on 2013-10-02. Retrieved 2013-09-29.
7. "Singapore Declaration on Global Standards and Outcomes of a Legal Education (2013)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-02. Retrieved 2013-09-29.
8. migration (2013-09-26). "Introduce "common language" for global legal education: NUS law dean". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2020-07-27.