Maybe The World Is Getting Smaller . . .
I must admit that I seldom look at my law school’s magazine. I generally find these self-promotional efforts a little tedious, and given the number of schools that were attended by my wife and kids we are deluged by these periodicals which never focus on the serious issue of how to get costs down and quality up, but seem to promote an underlying premise which is we will tell you how great we are and you will give us money.
However, in the last issue of the Gargoyle, the publication of the University of Wisconsin Law School, there was a note on program involving internships at law firms in Asia. It caught my attention initially because I thought this was a response to the declining access to internships in the US. It was not, although who knows what the future will bring.
The program has apparently been around for a while. When I was there a foreign internship was Denver. Although it was and still is small in size, for someone like myself who worked for a global company, tried cases in international forums, tried cases involving significant international disputes and worked daily with colleagues around the world, this program has a real potential of beginning to change the focus of legal education in this country which has tended to focus on our legal traditions as the only game in town.
