On behalf of CLE Paris, I am delighted to invite you to join us in Paris, France for our third CLE Paris Global Law Conference to be held on the 5th and 6th of January 2017. Paris, steeped in beauty, history and legal significance, provides us with a truly unique atmosphere to learn, share knowledge, develop business relationships and make new friends.

Lawyers, judges and law educators are now working in a globally dynamic and technologically diverse framework. Technology is pushing courts, lawyers, and legal services across borders and establishing new ways to communicate. Civil law jurisdictions are blending with common law systems; laws and systems are converging. Traditional legal positions and views are changing. To this end, CLE Paris will consider the law and its practice in a global environment.

We are bringing together international leaders in their legal fields to speak with us in a format encouraging inspiration, stimulation, and conversation. The Paris venue puts the program in touch with one of the greatest historical civil law jurisdictions, and in a country that is determined to take a lead in emerging global and transnational trends.

We will also continue with our private visits of legal significance. In 2016 we are visiting the French Senate and are repeating our very own “Law Professors’ Tour” – a legal / historical walking tour of Paris lead by Professors Gerard Carney and Pascale Bloch.

I hope that you will accept this invitation and join us in Paris.