Otherwise US legal graduates won’t be able to compete with their colleagues coming out of law schools around the world and especially in Asia? who are being instructed to understand more than one legal system unlike their USA counterparts…
The Huffington Post writes …
Third, graduates of law schools outside the U.S. often have some familiarity with the U.S. legal system. Consider the rise of dual degree and international programs in India, China, Canada, and elsewhere. If future American lawyers lack familiarity in kind, they will suffer a comparative disadvantage, both collectively and at the negotiating table in individual transactions. Lawyers who understand “codes and civil law methodology” are better equipped to work their way through a particular civil code. Thus an American lawyer who has studied the French or German civil code in law school would have an easier time approaching the Mexican civil code than one who had studied only the common law. On a recent trip to China, American Bar Association president Steve Zack was impressed with questions Chinese law students asked regarding the U.S. legal system, commenting: “I doubt that any similar questions could be asked if the president of the Chinese bar or even the English bar came here.”
See the full article at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-haffner/lawyers-without-borders-i_b_820548.html