Tomorrow\u27s Law Schools: Globalization and Legal Education

This Article focuses on the globalization of world political and economic structures, and how this affects the legal community. The globalization movement opens opportunities for the expansion of the market of legal services, as well as affecting the availability and accessibility of those services. This movement places legal educators in a crucial juncture. This article describes the effects of globalization on legal education, and proposes changes for legal educators in order to help meet the challenge of preparing lawyers for practice in this rapidly changing world

Un liberalismo extravagante: La Sataniada, de Alejandro Tapia y Rivera

This article examines the long poem La Sataniada (1878) by Puerto Rican author Alejandro Tapia in terms of both content and form. It discusses the limitations of previous studies and demonstrates the axis of the text is the dilemma of Nineteenth-Century European liberalism that sought to dismantle absolutism while avoiding the excesses of revolution and Jacobinism, to criticize the cult of moneyed wealth without promoting anti-bourgeois rebellion, and to attack the privileges of the Catholic Church without embracing atheism. The article examines how this dilemma is also present in other works by Tapia, such as Mis memorias and Póstumo el transmigrado. It examines how the combination of bold mix of epochs and historical figures with the strict adherence to an invariable strophic forro (around one thousand octavas reales) also corresponds to that wish for political change while avoiding its possible excesses.El artículo discute el extenso poema La Sataniada (1878) del autor puertorriqueño Alejandro Tapia desde el punto del contenido y forma. Se examinan las limitaciones de los estudios anteriores y se demuestra que el eje central de la obra es el dilema del liberalismo europeo del Siglo XIX que aspira a superar el absolutismo, pero evitar los excesos de las revoluciones y del jacobinismo, criticar el culto del dinero sin fomentar la rebelión anti-burguesa y atacar los privilegios de la Iglesia Católica sin abrazar el ateísmo. Se demuestra que este problema está igualmente presente en otros textos de Tapia, como Mis memorias y Póstumo el Transmigrado. Se discute cómo la audacia en la combinación de épocas y figuras históricas con una invariable y estricta forma estrófica (alrededor de mil octavas reales) corresponde al mismo deseo de cambio político a la vez que se evitan sus posibles excesos