Past Conferences

The first Global Legal Skills conference was held in Chicago in 2005 at The John Marshall Law School (the school now known as UIC School of Law following the merger of John Marshall and the University of Illinois Chicago). The GLS Conference started as a specialized conference connecting legal writing professionals who had an interest in teaching international students and lawyers who spoke English as a second language. The conference series was important because a growing number of lawyers and law students had begun to attend law schools in the United States and other English-speaking countries, and they needed to have special language training in Legal English and related courses. The GLS Conference series has since grown to include legal writing faculty, international and comparative law professors, clinical faculty, linguists, librarians, judges, judicial clerks, attorneys, court translators, law students, and scholars interested in global legal skills education. The GLS Conference has been held (so far) in seven different countries: the United States (in Chicago, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C.); Mexico (Monterrey); Costa Rica (San José); Italy (Verona and Bari); Australia (Melbourne); United Kingdom (Nottingham, England), and Czechia (Brno.

- 2025 Masaryk University, Faculty of Law, in Brno, Czechia GLS-17- Program
- 2024 University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy 16th Global Legal Skills Conference June-4-Program
- 2023 Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, UK GLS Conference Booklet Final
- 2019 Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA
- 2018 Melbourne Law School, Melbourne University, Australia 2018 Program