University Of Detroit Law School – Offers North America NAFTA Program

As you know the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) Treaty is a treaty entered into by the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States. As the world becomes more and more global, the legal profession must become equally global.

The University of Detroit and the University of Windsor (Canada) formed the original joint Canada/U.S. (LL.B./J.D.) program which enables students to achieve both a U.S. J.D. degree and the Windsor LL.B. degree in three years. Since that time, Osgoode and Ottawa law schools have created their own LL.B./J.D. programs.

The University of Detroit has gone a step further and created a joint U.S./Mexico law degree program. By so doing, the University of Detroit has established itself as a pioneer in global legal education. University of Detroit law students can now earn U.S., Canadian and Mexican law degrees.

The program is described on their site as follows:

“UDM and EL TECNOLÓGICO DE MONTERREY IN MEXICO LAUNCH JD/LED

The University of Detroit Mercy School of Law (UDM) and the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM or Monterrey), Mexico’s leading private law school, have partnered to offer the NAFTA Lawyer Program, a multiple degree program that allows students bilingual in Spanish and English to earn law degrees in the United States and Mexico.  Students completing this legal education program are awarded the U.S. Juris Doctor from UDM School of Law and the Mexican Bachelor of Arts in Law, the Licenciado en Derecho(L.E.D.), from Monterrey.

Students who want to practice in all three NAFTA countries also will be able to earn Mexican, U.S., and Canadian law degrees through UDM’s joint U.S./Canadian law degree program with the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada.

As part of this program, UDM will offer 14 courses in Mexican law taught in Spanish by professors from ITESM.  Any UDM student may take these courses as electives.”
http://www.law.udmercy.edu/

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