Global Issues Series
"This world we live in is a world where it is out of date to teach foreign law in a course called Foreign Law." - Justice Stephen G. Breyer
The national movement to globalize legal education is at the core of Pacific McGeorge’s legal education philosophy. Through West Publishing, an innovative, 18-volume “Global Issues” casebook series was developed to introduce comparative, international and transnational law content into the core curriculum at law schools across the country.
Franklin Gevurtz, Pacific McGeorge Professor and Director of the Global Center for Business and Development, conceived the series and serves as editor combining the scholarship of Pacific McGeorge faculty and authors across the country to offer comprehensive, multi-volume books to:
- introduce international, transnational and comparative law issues into basic law school courses;
- familiarize law school graduates with the growing impact of non-domestic sources of law; and
- prepare law school graduates for the growth of transnational legal transactions and disputes.
For descriptions of the volumes in the series, along with tables of contents and sample chapters, click 
here.
Among U.S. schools using the books in this series are the following:
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Columbia University University of California, Berkeley University of Southern California New York University Georgetown University Northwestern University Vanderbilt University University of North Carolina University of Iowa University of Washington University of Alabama Fordham University University of Pittsburgh University of Georgia University of California, Hastings University of California, Davis University of Nevada, Las Vegas Penn State University University of San Diego Santa Clara University University of Miami University of Florida Florida State University University of Tennessee Indiana University, Indianapolis |
Lewis and Clark University Chicago-Kent (Illinois Technical Institute) University of Houston Central Missouri State Amherst College Drake University Georgia State University Ohio Northern University University of Baltimore Brooklyn Law School Loyola University, New Orleans Yeshiva University Rutgers University, Camden Widener University, Harrisburg Vermont Law School Dayton University Suffolk University North Dakota University Stetson University Saint Louis University Whittier Law School University of Laverne Seattle University Florida International University Syracuse University |