Law school experience in pervasive electronic communications

TECHNOLOGY HAS CREATED a new dimension in communications and opened a global environment for transacting business and teaching that has yet to be measured. To position some of the issues affecting education, generally, and legal education and practice, this article reports on the experience in providing universal communications connectivity throughout an entire law school. This report describes the participants and the setting and how the students and the professors have begun to develop ways to use electronic communications to learn the law and practice it. The results of having this tool available throughout the school are examined, including the cultural and educational changes that have occurred. This experience points to the future in which students, professors and practitioners will collaborate in transitory national and international alliances to share their knowledge electronically.