REACHING OUT TO GLOBAL PARTNERS
The Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University School of Law has recognized that there is an insufficient substantive and sustained interaction among institutions of the global South and North on the topic of globalization.
Reaching Out to Global Partners aspires to create a network of “Global Partners” with leading developing country law schools to address legal problems of globalization through joint teaching, research, conferences, continuing legal education, and exchanges. The partnership activities will train academics, government, NGO lawyers, and practitioners in Latin America, Africa and Asia. This in turn will catalyze regional networks of legal academics, policy makers, and NGO advocates to share ideas and develop alliances to represent more effectively the interests of developing countries and their citizens in global regulatory decisions and their domestic implementation. The partnerships will focus on issues of trade, human rights, the environment, finance, investment and intellectual property as they impact developing countries. They will address not only issues of substantive law and policy, but also the governance of global regulatory regimes such as the WTO, IMF, Financial Action Task Force, Clean Development Mechanism and the ISO.
Global Partners will go well beyond the scope of other law school exchange programs and research activities to create long term institutional partnerships with law schools in developing regions to build a continuing program of legal research, education, and inter-regional networking communication. Many NYU faculty members are already committed to participating in Global Partners and have organized major GAL conferences in Latin America, Asia and Africa.