Integrating transnational legal perspectives into the first year civil procedure curriculum

For better or worse, law schools increasingly are rethinking their educational missions in the light of globalization-a complicated idea that builds on the expansion of international markets, the interconnection of communication, the protection of human rights, and the interrelation of ecological concerns. My home school, the New York University School of Law, established its Global Law School Program in 1995 with the expressed ambition "of transforming U.S. legal education.", Since then, the move to globalize the curriculum at other law schools has gathered steam, fueled by conferences, symposia, and workshops (of which this article is a part), with current efforts aimed at ensuring "that the vast majority, if not all, of law school graduates have exposure to issues of international, transnational, and comparative law."2 Propelled still further by support from law schools abroad, discussion now focuses not on whether to globalize the law school curriculum, but rather on how best to carry forward the idea.