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Abstract

Both American and Italian law schools face an ever-growing call for more skills training and experiential education as part of legal education. Relatedly, the practice of law increasingly involves international considerations. This Article provides an introductory solution for addressing these concerns.

Part I summarizes the arguments for expanding legal education in the U.S. and in Italy to include transactional skills education within a global context.

Part II offers a model for how schools can do this based on the design and pedagogy of the Introduction to Transactional Skills (ITS) program at Temple University.

Part III shows how the ITS pedagogical model can be adapted to other legal issues and the local needs of any country and can transfer to other cultures.

The Article concludes that the ITS model has the potential and flexibility to be adapted to different systems of education and to function as a bridge between cultures—both at the country level and at the level of a law school classroom. As an introductory solution, ITS can play an effective role in helping law students become familiar with global issues while learning transactional skills.

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