Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1988

Abstract

The Eason-Weinmann Colloquium entitled "The Internationalization of Law and Legal Practice," held in March 1988, addressed the challenges posed to conventional legal practice and rules of law by the evolution of the international marketplace. In light of the increasingly international character of commercial transactions, could or should disputes in transnational business ventures be adjudicated exclusively within national processes and according to domestic strictures? Does the character of these transactions portend the creation of a new genre of lawyering? Are current academic curricula adapted to the molding of this new breed of lawyers? Is a functional international bar possible? Do we need a substantive law of wide jurisdictional dimensions that fits the contours of transnational commercial conduct? How would such a law emerge? What would be its source of legitimacy?How can it be enforced?

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