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Abstract: To prepare law students for a tougher, rapidly changing legal world, European law schools need to reinvent themselves. This article argues that European legal educators should focus on equipping students with a broader skillset enabling them to become successful advocacy experts, effective legal risk analysts and creative legal problem-solvers. As part of a new, thoroughly interdisciplinary curriculum, legal education should concentrate on the acquisition of rhetorical skills and social-scientific tools allowing students to apprehend legal rules as the product of social dynamics as well as as instrument of social organization. To preserve their commitment to free, mass legal education, European law schools should also embrace full-scale digitalization to free up time and scarce teaching resources for more interactive and more experiential forms of learning.

The purpose of this note is to provide some guidance in advising prelaw students who wish to specialize in international law. Two broad difficulties occur for most of us who are advising students. The first is a lack of awareness of the programs available in schools other than the most prestigious ones. The second difficulty ties into the first one since many of our advisees have little chance of getting into the nationally well-known schools. There is little problem when one is advising a'student who has a L.S.A.T. of 700+ and G.P.A. of 3.5 or better. The task is harder when the advisee has a cornbination of around 600/3.0, even though this is a good student who can get into most law schools in the country.