ATLAS

The Association of Transnational Law Schools (ATLAS) was formed to bring together talented doctoral students in the field of law. It serves particularly to foster the study of legal issues related but not limited to: the comparative legal and regulatory responses to globalization; the evolution of transnational law; and the challenges involved in international governance. ATLAS is not a degree-granting institution.

ATLAS aspires to make a major contribution to research and scholarship through Cooperative Graduate Programming (CGP)—the collaborative design and organization of educational activities and opportunities for doctoral students. The program is centered around an annual meeting convened annually during late June and early July at which students from each partner institution learn from faculty in a variety of fields and give and receive feedback on one another’s work. This event, called the Agora, is designed to encourage the development of legal scholarship by fostering a community of doctoral candidates and encouraging the development of exceptional doctoral dissertations.

The 2010 ATLAS Agora will be hosted by the NYU School of Law. The working language of ATLAS is English.

MEMBERS

ATLAS is a consortium of ten institutions of higher education: the London School of Economics and Political Science, New York University, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University (Toronto), University of Cape Town, Universidad de Deusto (Bilbao), University of Melbourne, Université de Montréal, Bucerius Law School (Hamburg), Bar-Ilan University (Tel Aviv), and the National University of Singapore.