To Teach or not to Teach – Why We Do Need to
Teach Foreign Law and Foreign Legal Systems as Well as Comparative Law Methods in a Global World? Cover Image

To Teach or not to Teach – Why We Do Need to Teach Foreign Law and Foreign Legal Systems as Well as Comparative Law Methods in a Global World?
To Teach or not to Teach – Why We Do Need to Teach Foreign Law and Foreign Legal Systems as Well as Comparative Law Methods in a Global World?

Author(s): Maria M. Kenig-Witkowska
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Higher Education
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: teaching foreign law; comparative law methods; comparative international law; international environmental law

Summary/Abstract: This paper addresses the issues from the following questions perspective: why do we need to teach foreign law; why do we need to teach and learn a comparative law methods; why do we need to teach comparative international law and why to teach international environmental law. The shortest common answer is: because in our increasingly globally interconnected world, with the rise of important new developments over the last thirty years, we are related in important common legal ways. The remarks made in this paper are based on academic career and experience as a professor of law in Poland, as well as from the experience as a visiting professor at the foreign universities, including the American universities, where the author have had an opportunity to teach the EU environmental law.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 62
  • Page Range: 153-163
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English
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