The LSGL General Assembly elects the president/s for a two-year mandate. The new presidency is held by the deans of IE University Law School, Spain and Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, USA. Soledad Atienza is the dean of IE Law School and has an extensive academic experience and a global vision of legal education. Prior to that, she practiced Law at Pérez-Llorca for five years.
She earned her Ph.D. in Social Sciences from IE University and is currently a Law professor. Her expertise includes the areas of Comparative Law and legal teaching methods. Soledad has an Executive MBA degree from IE Business School and a Certificate in European Studies from the European Institute of the University of Saarland in Germany. She was a visiting student at Cornell University in New York and holds a Law degree from Universidad CEU San Pablo in Spain.
Soledad Atienza is co-chair of the Commission for the Future of Legal Services of the IBA (International Bar Association), and has co-directed the “Blueprint on global legal education”. She is also co-director of the Pérez-Llorca / IE Chair of Business Law and author of the book “Enseñar Derecho. ¿Puede servirnos la experiencia de Estados Unidos?” (“Teaching Law: Can the U.S. experience help us?”), published by Editorial Aranzadi.
On June 21st, 2012, a select number of leading law schools from all over the world created the Law Schools Global League (LSGL). Its goals are fostering academic debate on the impact of globalized law, and creating a research agenda for this purpose, encouraging academic debate on the impact of globalized legal education, and taking practical initiatives to develop new methodologies, courses, programs and teaching materials, stimulating and facilitating cooperation in education and research among its members and engaging in debate with stakeholders in all fields of legal practice so as to stimulate and facilitate international cooperation among legal practitioners.
