Proceedings of the Third Annual Legal & Policy Issues in the Americas Conference (2002

Mills, Jon L.

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University of Florida Levin College of Law

University of Florida Levin College of LawUF Law Scholarship RepositoryUF Law Faculty Publications Faculty ScholarshipFall 2002VII. Legal Education in the Americas, A. AnIntroduction (Proceedings of the Third AnnualLegal & Policy Issues in the Americas Conference)Jon L. MillsUniversity of Florida Levin College of Law, mills@law.ufl.eduFollow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/facultypubPart of the International Law Commons, and the Legal Education CommonsThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at UF Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusionin UF Law Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of UF Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contactoutler@law.ufl.edu.Recommended CitationJon Mills, VII. Legal Education in the Americas A. An Introduction, 15 Fla. J. Int'l L. 131 (2002), available athttp://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/facultypub/699VII. LEGAL EDUCATION IN THE AMERICASA. IntroductionJon MillsWhat seems rather obvious to me after our series of discussions, rangingfrom terrorism to the environment to various problems in Argentina oropportunities in Cuba, is the enormous complexity of the future of legalissues in the Americas, which is what we are all about. If we are going toaddress this, it seems one of the major issues is how we go about educatingour students, whether they be from Florida, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, orCosta Rica. It is a challenge to develop not only lawyers, but leaders andcitizens in this complex environment. Our key presentation is by AlejandroOgarrio.Our panel will include, Jessica Parker, who is the president of theInternational Law Association at the University of Florida College of Law,a member of the International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court team,and in 1998-99, she was a Rotary International Ambassador Scholar,visiting Ulster, Northern Ireland. Dean Rafael Ballar is Dean of theUniversity of Costa Rica, which is a partner institution to the University ofFlorida and one of the Levin College of Law's major undertakings. He hasa degree in economics and the environment from the University ofBordeaux. He specializes in environmental law and administrative law andis a member of the National Academy of Public Law.Robert Hendry is a University of Florida graduate, is an internationallaw expert and his firm is Hendry & Stoner in Orlando. He is on thesteering committee of the National Council of District Export. He is thechairman of the International Law Committee for the Florida Bar. He is amember of the University of Florida College of Law Advisory Board. Hehas authored a book, US. Real Estate and the Foreign Investor, as well asa number of other articles.George Millard is an expert in laundering money and terrorism - notactually that he launders money and is a terrorist - and also a police chiefand the director of the Metropolitan Institute of Criminology in Sa6 Paulo,Brazil. Millard is also a professor at the Policy Academy and a visitingprofessor at the University of Florida. Our final panelist, who will begin oursession, is Alejandro Ogarrio. He studied law at Escuela Libre de Derecho,has an LL.M. from Harvard, and is the president of the Mexican BarAssociation. He is a professor at Escuela Libre de Derecho and has truly atransnational and international perspective on legal education as he has132 FLORIDA JOURNAL OF INTERNA77ONAL LAW [Vol. 15taught here at the University of Florida, Escuela Libre, and a number ofother schools in Mexico.

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