Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
Abstract
The long-standing and close connection among law, language and the state has traditionally led law schools to provide legal education in a single language. Indeed, bilingual legal education could in some cases be viewed as potentially contrary to state interests, given that "[t]he main instrument of nation-building is the imposition of a common state language. Indeed, bilingual legal education could in some cases be viewed as potentially contrary to state interests, given that "[t]he main instrument of nation-building is the imposition of a common state language."' However, the historical model of monolingual legal education may be in jeopardy. For example, a variety of international organizations, including the United Nations and the European Centre for Higher Education (UNESCOCEPES), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO), have all remarked upon the need to increase the number of bilingual lawyers in the world.
Recommended Citation
S. I. Strong,
Review Essay: Bilingual Legal Education in the United States: An Idea Whose Time Has Come, 64 Journal of Legal Education 354
(2014).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/facpubs/852