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&lt;p&gt;Yesterday&amp;#8217;s&amp;nbsp; &lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;National Law Journal&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;details the nascent global spread of U.S.-style legal education, where &amp;#8220;a number of higher education institutions around the world are emulating the &lt;st1:country-region w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;United States&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&#39; three-year J.D. program.&amp;#8221;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;There are two broad reasons for this trend: increasing globalization demands increased consistency in legal training, and a growing preference for a postgraduate legal education.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The U.S.-style J.D. is recognized as more rigorous than an undergraduate law degree (even when combined with an LL.B).&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;According the &lt;i&gt;NLJ&lt;/i&gt;, schools in &lt;st1:country-region w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;South Korea&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, &lt;st1:country-region w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Australia&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, &lt;st1:country-region w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Canada&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; and &lt;st1:place w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;China&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; have begun offering J.D. programs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;FR&quot;&gt;The top line of Jeffrey Lehman&amp;#8217;s dazzling&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;C.V. reads &lt;/span&gt;&amp;#8220;&lt;span lang=&quot;FR&quot;&gt;Chancellor and Founding Dean of the School of Transnational Law. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;FR&quot;&gt;Peking University.&amp;nbsp; Beijing, China.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#8221;&lt;span lang=&quot;FR&quot;&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;FR&quot;&gt; &lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;According to the &lt;i&gt;NLJ&lt;/i&gt;, Lehman recently held a screening of &lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Paper Chase&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; for the&amp;nbsp;incoming group of (first-ever)1Ls at STL-PU.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; As you&#39;d expect&lt;/span&gt;, the movie stoked the students&amp;#8217; anxiety: &amp;#8220;Were all American law professors as mean as professor Kingsfield?&amp;#8221;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;(Would Chancellor Lehman recommend viewing &lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;Alive&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; to first-time fliers? )&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lehman told the &lt;i&gt;NLJ &lt;/i&gt;that &amp;#8220;Our goal is for them to walk out and work for&amp;nbsp; Paul Hastings,&amp;nbsp; Akin Gump and other similar firms.&amp;#8221; he said. The chancellor did not pluck those firms&amp;#8217; names out the air--each has reportedly donated $25,000 to the fledgling school.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; (&lt;/span&gt;Annual tuition for the transnational law program is $9,000.)&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Paul Hastings partner &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Timothy Dickinson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is quoted as saying that the school will train a new &amp;#8220;cadre&amp;#8221; of lawyers &amp;#8220;educated to handle international work.&amp;#8221; (&amp;#8220;Cadre&amp;#8221; is an interesting word choice. Why not go all out and say &amp;#8220;vanguard&amp;#8221;?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;-posted by brian&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*charter member of the New Name/Old Name Mix &amp;amp; Match Inter-Entity Basketball League, along with Gold Coast Refrigerator Repair College of Ghana, Ceylon Beauty Academy of Sri Lanka, and the Philip Morris All-Stars from the Altria accounts/payable department.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

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