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The European law school*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Roy Goode*
Affiliation:
University of Oxford

Extract

The impending arrival of the Single European Market and the consequent drive towards European legal integration raise in stark form the future role of the national law school. Should we continue to have national law schools at all, in the sense of law schools with a predominantly national focus? Or should we move towards a system in which the typical law school, though located in a particular country within Europe, encompasses a structure, a body of staff and students and a curriculum which are a national and which focus on European laws and institutions rather than on those of the particular home State? I-f law schools are to retain their essentially national character, how should the growing influence of European law in general and Community law in particular affect their role, organisation and activities?

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 1993

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Footnotes

*

The Presidential Address delivered at the Annual Conference of the Society of Public Teachers of Law on 16 September 1992.

References

Notes

1. For a rich feast of ideas and learning see The Common Law of Europe and the Future of Legal Education (ed Bruno de Witte and Caroline Forder (Kluwer, 1992), the collection of papers presented at a highly successful conference organised a year ago by the Maastricht Law Faculty.

2. See Holdsworth, , History of English Law, Vol II, pp 506 Google Scholar et seq, Vol VI, pp 481 et seq, Vol XII, p 79.

3. (1987) 50 MLR 673 at 675.

4. The Acadmical Study of the Civil Law (Macmillan & Co 1871) p 31.

5. The Bramble Bush (Oceana Publications, 1960) p 113.

6. A Common Private Law for Europe: Perspectives for the Reform of European Legal Education in The common law of Europe and the future of legal education (supra, n 1) 31 at 35–36.

7. The European Community, Its Law and Lawyers,' The Second Wilberforce Lecture, delivered at the Inner Temple Hall, 9 October 1991.

8. (1992) 17 EL Rev 232 at 235.

9. Aron Nimzowitsch, My System, p 38.

10. In Integration Through Law (ed Cappelletti, Secombe, Weiler, 1986), Vol 3, p 372.

11. The European Community Law Research Project 1991: What European Community Law have trainee solicitors studied in their law degree? (College of Law, 1991).