Yale Teaches University of Paris Lesson in Law as France Demurs

It isn't easy for corporate law firms to find qualified law-school graduates in the land of Montesquieu, one of the founders of modern Western legal theory. ``Because law schools are so weak in economics and out of touch, people who want to be corporate lawyers go to business schools,'' said Ted Kamman, an American partner at Clifford Chance in Paris. Louis Vogel, the president of France's oldest law school at the University of Paris II Assas-Pantheon, is trying to change that. Drawing on his experience as a law student at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, he's hiring practicing lawyers to teach, expanding partnerships with internationally known programs such as Cambridge University's and building an alumni network to help students find internships and jobs.

Yale Teaches University of Paris Lesson in Law as France Demurs bloomberg.com Fri, Dec 14, 2007