Between October 2nd and November 20th, it will take place the joint project SEALS – ELPIS Global Classroom. This project is a new pedagogical program that consists on 8 sessions in which students are divided into small working groups with the aim of discussing urgent global legal issues. The objectives (“the core”) behind this initiative are to:

• Learn about various global issues facing the world today. Global learning encourages awareness and critical thinking about issues such as poverty, climate change, cultural differences, world finance and trade, law and politics.
• Educate our students on the importance of becoming global citizens by respecting cultural diversity, human rights, and the rule of law and empower students to see the importance of personally taking social action.
• Understand the importance of being a lawyer in the global community and develop the core competencies which allow them to actively engage with other future lawyers/global leaders.
• Communicate in small groups the differences and similarities between legal systems and discuss alternate approaches to global legal problems.

166 students, from 8 countries and 14 Universities will participate in this project.

Participating Law Schools include:

Bilkent U. Faculty of Law, Ankara, Turkey U. of Silesia, Katowice, Poland U. of Lisbon Faculty of Law, Portugal Leibniz U. of Hanover Faculty of Law, Germany ELTE Eötvös Loránd U., Hungary Autonomous U. of Barcelona, Spain Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński U., Poland Suffolk U. Law School, Boston, Massachusetts Federal U. of Applied Sciences for Public Administration U. of Massachusetts Law School, Dartmouth, Massachusetts U. of Le Havre, France St. Mary’s U. School of Law, San Antonio, Texas Fac of Law & Eco, Jan Długosz U. of Częstochowa, Poland U. of Rouen, France Mykolas Romeris U., Vilnius, Lithuania National U. “Odesa Law Academy,” Ukraine U. of Strasbourg, France Bhayangkara Jakarta Raya U., Indonesia Loyola U. College of Law, Louisiana U. of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, Kentucky Environmental Law Institute, D.C. Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the U. of Montana Tulane U. School of Law, Louisiana Brooklyn Law School, New York U. of Bayreuth, Germany Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany