Preparing Legal Entrepreneurs as Global Strategists: the Case for Entrepreneurial Legal Education

This article proposes that although U.S. law schools now enjoy a unique opportunity to train the type of attorney likely to be most globally in demand throughout the twenty-first centurythat is, the entrepreneurial lawyer1 American law schools have thus far neglected this possibility and are running out of time to establish market leadership in this critical emerging area. Building on prior conceptual and empirical research, this article suggests several means by which U.S. law schools can fully capitalize on the international environment to the benefit of students and societyas well as to their own.