John Flood's Random Academic Thoughts (RATs)

Peter Lederer and I have revised our paper, “Becoming a Cosmopolitan Lawyer”. It’s available at SSRN here. The paper is based on extensive interviews that Peter and I have done over a few years. It is presented as an oral history–rather different to anything I’ve done before. Comments most welcome.  

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(Singapore old and new)   I’ve been researching the global context of legal education recently and the competition is becoming intense. The usual suspects are UK and US law schools, which compete for overseas students especially at the graduate level. Carole Silver has studied this area extensively. However, I suspect we shall see the competition [...]

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  I am teaching a course at Miami that includes a number of readings on globalization, but I am always searching for better ways to reach students. I think I have found an unusual one with the film, How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman. In the 16th century the Portuguese and the French were fighting [...]

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(thanks to fullhalloween.com) This is not to say that all law firms outside the Big Bang are zombies waiting to be slaughtered. (Although George Romero’s movies are good!) But after commenting on Norton Rose’s “Noah’s Ark” three-way merger betwixt UK, Canada, and South Africa, its imperial ambitions are running amok. This is clearly where the [...]

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All you need to know… (Thanks to Peter D. Lederer)

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