Unique centre for transnational legal studies

The new Center for Transnational Legal Studies has been officially launched at King’s. The Center, spearheaded by Georgetown Law, is a first-of-its kind, collaborative project involving ten premier law schools from around the world, including King’s, to offer transnational legal education.

Professor Timothy Macklem, Head of the School of Law at King’s College London comments: ‘The Centre will be a wonderful opportunity for top quality Law Schools worldwide to come together to share ideas on education and research, and to enable some of King's students to study global issues with other students from a whole range of different cultures and jurisdictions.’

The Right Honourable Baroness Brenda Hale of Richmond, the first woman to be appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and Honorary Graduate of King’s College London, congratulated the partner universities on ‘this splendid initiative, bringing together universities from all over the globe’.

Transnational questions, she said, now have a much more direct impact on people’s lives, citing examples involving multiculturalism, international human rights and “the European dimension” that now affects UK law.

The participating institutions – premier law schools from five continents – include King’s College London, Georgetown Law, the Free University of Berlin, the University of Melbourne, the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Singapore, the University of Sao Paulo, University of Torino, and the University of Toronto.