E.A.C.L.E.

The European-American Consortium for Legal Education (EACLE), founded in 2000, educates future lawyers for transnational challenges, by giving them transnational experiences as part of their legal studies. Four European and four United States law schools are in partnership to exchange students, faculty, scholarship, and experience, so that law students will have a broader understanding of the interrelated legal world in which they will practice their profession. The eight partners are American University, the University of Baltimore, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the University of Ghent, Helsinki University, Hofstra University, Santa Clara University and Warsaw University.

To some extent the EACLE partnership takes its inspiration from the European ERASMUS and TEMPUS programs, through which European law faculties have been exchanging teachers and students for over a decade. The European EACLE partners are participants in an existing ERASMUS network, and American partners benefit from the Europeans’ greater experience. There is no reason in principle why the same model could not be extended to South America, Africa and to Asia, and indeed several of the participating universities already have very strong links with law faculties outside the current scope of the consortium.

For more information about EACLE, please see our Mission Statement Page.