Legal Education and Legal Profession in the Global World

Conference on
Legal Education and Legal Profession in the Global World - Polish-American Perspectives
Commemorating the 15th anniversary of the Center for American Law Studies
a joint program of the University of Florida Levin College of Law and the University of Warsaw, Faculty
of Law and Administration
June 16, 2014 r. (Monday)
Aula A.3, Collegium Iuridicum II, Lipowa 4, Warsaw
8:30 Registration. Coffee
9:00 Opening of the Conference
Professor Krzysztof Rączka, Dean, Faculty of Law and Administration UW; Professor Robert Jerry, Dean, Levin
College of Law, UF
PANEL 1
9:15 The Law School of the Future: How We Need to Change Legal Education to be Adapted to Rapidly
Changing World
Moderator: Professor Łukasz Pisarczyk; Panelists: Professor Robert Jerry, Dean, Levin College of Law, UF;
Professor Tomasz Giaro, Vice Dean, UW; Tomasz Wardyński, esq. Wardyński i Wspólnicy; Professor Hubert
Izdebski, UW
10:45 Coffee break
PANEL 2
11:00 Foreign Law and Legal Systems: To Teach or not to Teach
Moderator: Professor Julian Juergensmeyer, GSU; Panelists: Professor Maria Kenig-Witkowska, UW; Professor
Stuart Cohn, UF; dr Ewa Gmurzyńska, UW/UF; Roman Rewald, esq., Weil; Witold Kowalczyk, student UW
12:45 Lunch for participants
PANEL 3
13:30 The Changing Role of Lawyers in the Global World
Moderator: Professor Wojciech Kocot, UW; Panelists: Professor Jon Mills, UF; Agnieszka StefanowiczBarańska, esq., Dentons; Witold Daniłowicz, esq, DJW Legal; Andy Hall, esq., Hall, Lamb & Hall, Miami;
15:00 Coffee break
PANEL IV
15:15 Comparing Polish and American Law Teaching Methods: Lessons from the Past for the Future;
Moderator: Professor Stu Cohn; UW; Professor Adam Bosiacki, UW; Professor Tomasz Stawecki, UW; dr
Rafal Morek, UW; dr Kacper Gradoń, UW
16:45 Conclusion of the Conference. Presentation of Certificates to 2013/14 graduates of the Center for
American Law Studies.
17:15 Reception