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Educating European Lawyers

Aalt Willem Heringa (Ed.)

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Description for Educating European Lawyers Paperback. Editor(s): Willem Heringa, Aalt; Akkermans, Bram. Series: IUS Commune: European and Comparative Law Series. Num Pages: 263 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: LA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 172 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
The continuing and accelerating process of European integration impacts on European legal education, or ought to have its impact on our ideas about legal education in Europe. Although legal education in Europe is mainly national and usually conducted in the national language, there are initiatives that seek to break through the national barriers and move towards a truly European legal education. The Maastricht European Law School, which focuses on European Union law, international law and comparative law, fully taught in English, is one of these initiatives. In this edited volume we have endeavoured to reflect upon European Legal education in ... Read more

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Publisher

Intersentia Ltd

Format

Paperback

Publication date

2011

Series

IUS Commune: European and Comparative Law Series

Condition

New

Weight

498g

Number of Pages

263

Place of Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom

ISBN

9781780680187

SKU

V9781780680187

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About Aalt Willem Heringa (Ed.)

Aalt Willem Heringa (1955) graduated from the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden in 1978, where he worked until 1987 as an assistant professor. He was a visiting researcher at the Centre of European Governmental Studies of the University of Edinburgh (1986) and at the European Research Center of the Harvard Law School (1996). In 1989 he completed his Ph.D. thesis 'Sociale Grondrechten' (Social ... Read moreRights). He has been working at Maastricht University, the Faculty of Law, since 1987; he was appointed full professor of (comparative) constitutional and administrative law in 1995. He is author and editor of numerous books and articles on Dutch Constitutional law, the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Social Charter, comparative constitutional law, US constitutional law, Human Rights and legal education. He served for many years as a Member of the Netherlands Commission on Equal Treatment. He is one of the founding editors of the NJCM Bulletin; of EHRC (European Human Rights Cases); of JB and JB+; of the Maastricht Journal of European and comparative law (MJ); and of EVRM Rechtspraak & Commentaar . He served on the supervisory board of Hiil (the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of the Law) and on the Supervisory Board of LVO. He is since 2010 a member/vice chair of the supervisory board of Orbis Medical Center, major care and cure organisation in the south of Limburg province. Since 2012 he also serves on the Conseil d'Administration of Paris University Dauphine. Since 2012 he is director of the Montesquieu Institute Maastricht and he is Head of the Public Law Department. In 2013 he worked as European Co-Dean of the China EU School of Law in Beijing. Bram Akkermans studied at the European Law School, University of Maastricht (2002) and the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. After his study he was program developer and lecturer in international and European law at the Institute of Marketing Management, Fontys University in Eindhoven, PhD student (junior researcher) at Maastricht University, and since 2008 Assistant Professor of European private law. His thesis, under the supervision of Prof. Mr. j.h.m. van Erp, concerns the closed system of property rights (numerus clausus) in Europe and was published in 2008 under the title 'The principle of numerus clausus in European property law'. His research focuses on the development of European law on the national private law, in particular property law. He teaches comparative and European property law, contract law and liability law. He is training coordinator of the European Law School (bachelor studies) in Maastricht and Deputy Director of the Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI). Since 2012 he is also ' invited fellow' at the South African Research Chair in Property Law at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Show Less

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'[Educating European Lawyers] provides invaluable insights into the experience of almost two decades of Europeanization and Internationalization of legal education. Given that many other universities feel the aspiration or pressure to Europeanize and internationalize their schools, their staff, their curricula and their academic output, the book offers a rich fund of information on the progress, the obstacles and the downsides ... Read more

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