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LawWithoutWalls
LawWithoutWalls (http://www.lawwithoutwalls.org) is a part-virtual, collaborative academic model, created by Michele DeStefano Beardslee and Michael Bossone at the University of Miami School of Law, that brings together students, faculty, practitioners, and entrepreneurs from around the country and the world to innovate legal education and practice. It is motivated by a desire to help those engaged in the education and practice of law to realize the impact our changing world is having upon our shared legal enterprise and to embrace that change to create a resonant, efficient, and sustainable future. Our goal is to jointly develop creative solutions to real problems in the way law is taught and practiced. Students from Fordham Law School, Harvard Law School, IE Business School, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, University of Miami School of Law, New York Law School, Peking University School of Transnational Law, Stanford Law School, Sydney Law School, Universidad de Los Andes Facultad de Derecho, University College London Faculty of Laws, and The University of St. Gallen Executive School of Management, Technology and Law, are teamed up to identify a problem in legal education or practice. Then, over the semester, each team develops a Project of Worth that creatively solves its identified issue. To help reach this goal, student teams are virtually guided by an academic mentor, a practitioner mentor, an entrepreneur advisory board, and a subject expert board to ensure that the Projects of Worth are creative, feasible, and valuable to an identified target audience. In order to cultivate relationships, LawWithoutWalls kicks off outside of the United States each January at one of the participating schools. It culminates with a ConPosium at Miami Law each April where students present their Projects of Worth alongside leading academics and practitioners. As a key component to LawWithoutWalls, students participate in Virtual Thought Leader Sessions wherein experts from around the world: 1) share their multidisciplinary perspectives on the needed changes in legal education and practice; and 2) teach professional, team building, idea generation, and entrepreneurial skills. LawWithoutWalls is, among other things, an attempt to eliminate the barriers between faculty and students, business and law, professors and practitioners, education and practice. It is an exciting and unique opportunity to collaborate across institutions and countries and gain invaluable experience and insight into the world of law and business. Above all else, LawWithoutWalls engages those with a stake in Law's future and provides them with a powerful vehicle for innovation and change.

History and Development
LawWithoutWalls is motivated by a desire to embrace the impact the changing world is having on the legal profession. Over the past twenty to thirty years the world has gotten exceedingly more complex, technological, and global. Additionally, there has been an influx of regulation, entrepreneurialism, and competition for the work that lawyers do. Today, competition for US lawyers is not only the over 1 million lawyers in the United States nor the lawyers from India and China. Instead, the competition isn't necessarily even a lawyer. The globalized world represents a world where the line between what is business and what is law is anything but clear and technology threatens to change lawyers' work and turn what used to be viewed as bespoke and valuable into a commodity. LawWithoutWalls is designed to embrace and leverage those changes. Further, it is founded on the belief that in order to change the way legal services are provided and law is practiced, the way law is taught (the skills that are honed, the types of tasks that are assigned, and the teaching methods that are implemented) also needs to be drastically transformed.