July 7 , 2008
Professor Tracy McGaugh Leads Conference
in Turkey Teaching Common Law
Legal Analysis Skills
Central Islip, NY – Touro Law Center’s Professor Tracy McGaugh is the principal organizer of a conference to take place in Turkey. The Istanbul Legal Skills Conference will be held August 4-7, 2008, at Bahcesehir Istanbul University. It is co-sponsored by the Legal Writing Institute and Bahcesehir Istanbul University.
The purpose of the conference is to share with the Turkish legal community how common law legal analysis is conducted and how American law skills schools weave skills into the law school curriculum. McGaugh explained, “Turkey is a civil law country that has applied for accession into the European Union, which would require that its lawyers be able to operate in the EU common law court system. Programs like this one expose Turkish lawyers to common law analysis skills and give Turkish institutions an opportunity to demonstrate Turkey's ability to be a successful EU member.”
Professor Kathleen Bergin is co-coordinating the event. “The conference provides American law teachers an opportunity to forge ties with their Turkish and European counterparts,” she says. “The more we understand the history and development of foreign legal systems, the more we understand the similarities and differences with our own system.” Bergin teaches Constitutional Law at South Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas.
Presenters at the conference represent nineteen law schools in the United States and European Union, including the University of Latvia, University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Notre Dame University School of Law, and Cornell University School of Law
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