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Association of Transnational Law Schools
The Association of Transnational Law Schools (ATLAS) is a consortium of institutions of higher education from around the world dedicated to the intellectual formation of highly talented doctoral students and fostering reflection and research on issues broadly related, but not limited, to comparative legal and regulatory responses to various forces of globalization, international governance challenges and the evolution of transnational law.
There are 10 ATLAS partner institutions. As of ATLAS’ inaugural year of 2008, the ATLAS partner institutions were: London School of Economics and Political Science, New York University, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University (Toronto), University of Cape Town, Universidad de Deusto (Bilbao), University of Melbourne, and Université de Montréal. As of 2009, Bucerius Law School (Hamburg) and Bar-Ilan University (Tel Aviv) have joined and, as of 2010, the National University of Singapore.
The study of Law, Change and Regulatory Challenges in the Contemporary World is the overarching theme for this collaboration of these seven world's leading law schools.
ATLAS aspires to make a major contribution to research and scholarship through cooperative learning opportunities that result in:
The working language of ATLAS administration and teaching is English.
