PACIFIC MCGEORGE CENTER FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS AND DEVELOPMENT

PACIFIC MCGEORGE CENTER
FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS AND DEVELOPMENT
Th
e Pacifi c McGeorge Center for Global Business and Development pursues educational, scholarly and
practical initiatives addressing the interface between the global economy and the legal profession.

Th
e Center for Global and Business Development
Th
e Center and its three institutes are involved in a
(Th
e Center) has three principal areas of concern,
wide array of activities in support of this basic
each of which is the focus of one of the institutes
proposition. Th
e Center will continue to sponsor
within the Center. Th
e Pacifi c McGeorge Institute
roundtables and symposia on such topics as legal
for Global Business examines the legal implications
responses to terrorism, the legal infrastructure of
of the globalization of business enterprises and
economic reconstruction and development,
business transactions. Th
e Pacifi c McGeorge Institute international project fi nance, international
for Sustainable Development undertakes a wide range environmental law and policy, international fi nancial
of projects concerning emerging legal regimes for
services regulation, and other emerging issues of
global resources for sustainable development. Th
e
critical importance. Th
e Center’s programs bring
Pacifi c McGeorge Institute for Development of Legal
together scholars, practitioners and policy makers to
Infrastructure is concerned with studying and
exchange views and advance understanding of current
aiding in the development of legal infrastructures that issues in global business and development. Th
e Center
are preconditions for global business and economic
and the Institute for Global Business are also involved
development.
in projects concerning the creation of a genuinely
transnational curriculum-both for Pacifi c McGeorge
For over a quarter century, a distinctive feature of
and for law schools generally; the establishment of
Pacifi c McGeorge’s international law program has been institutional links between Pacifi c McGeorge and
its focus on transnational business practice (including
other law schools worldwide for faculty and student
both transactional and litigation practice). Th
e Center exchanges and for joint educational projects; and other
builds upon this tradition by facilitating scholarship,
projects intended to facilitate scholarship and policy
curricular innovation and real-world projects to help
making with respect to global business and
current practitioners and policy makers, as well as
development.
future attorneys, to address the issues raised by the
global economy. Simply put, the predominant players
Th
e Center and the Institute for Sustainable
in the economy are increasingly multinational
Development are dedicated to the proposition that
enterprises and entrepreneurs whose operations
legal rules must create the climate for the sustainable
transcend national boundaries.
use of global resources. Capitalizing on the unique
expertise of Professor Stephen McCaff rey, Pacifi c
Th
e attorneys who represent such clients must be
McGeorge has inaugurated two advanced degree
prepared to deal with legal issues that are global in
programs in the fi eld of international water resources
scope. Even for those attorneys who do not represent
law. Th
e Center and the Institute for Sustainable
global enterprises, the individual transactions
Development facilitate scholarship and curricular
conducted by their local clients will also increasingly
innovation designed to address the legal issues
cross national borders or will otherwise be aff ected by
arising out of the use, allocation and management of
the rules of the global economy (such as the dictates
transboundary resources, including natural resources,
of the WTO, NAFTA, and the like). Th
e Center is
human resources, intellectual
dedicated to the proposition that business attorneys
resources, and fi nancial resources.
must be educated to think globally, if they are to be
eff ective advisers and advocates
of business enterprises.
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Th
e Center and the Institute for Development of
Legal Infrastructure are dedicated to the proposition
that the rule of law provides a critical infrastructure
for individuals, nations and regions participating in
the global economy. Over the years the international
program at the School of Law has provided legal
education to students from developing and
transition economies, many of whom-like Zhu Suli,
currently the Dean of the University of Beijing School
of Law-are now important participants in the legal
infrastructures of these economies. Th
e Center and the
Institute for Development of Legal Infrastructure are
expanding their eff orts to educate non-United States
legal professionals, with the goal of strengthening the
rule of law in such economies, and to assist and advise
policy makers around the globe with respect to
critical issues concerning legal infrastructure in a
global economy.

Th
e Center is under the direction of Professor Michael
P. Malloy, an internationally recognized expert on
international fi nancial services and trade law.
Th
e Institute for Global Business is directed by
Professor Frank Gevurtz, a leading scholar of
corporate and securities law and business planning.
Th
e Institute for Sustainable Development is directed
by Professor Gregory S. Weber, a leading scholar
and adviser in the fi elds of environmental law and
water resources law.
Th
e Institute for Development of Legal Infrastructure
is under the direction of Professor Linda Carter, a
criminal law scholar who has increasingly turned her
attention to current issues in international criminal law
and procedure.
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