About the Author

• Author: Kevin J. Fandl
• Profession: Director of the Global Legal Education Institute
• Pages: 11-12

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About the Author

Kevin J. Fandl is the Director of the Global Legal Education Insti-

tute, the premiere legal executive education program for interna-

tional legal practitioners. Kevin founded

the institute following several years of

traveling and teaching abroad, where he

realized the gap in skills-based legal edu-

cation. Previously, he spent eight years

as an attorney, senior counselor, and man-

ager in federal government. He won nu-

merous leadership awards while working

as a public servant and traveled across the

country delivering advanced legal re-

search and writing courses to staff attor-

neys.

Following law school, Kevin was selected to be a Presidential

Management Fellow, leading him into a career of public service.

He began his doctoral studies in 2005 and was awarded a Fulbright

scholarship in 2006 to study and teach law in Colombia. This expe-

rience greatly expanded his view of legal education outside the

United States. He has also consulted on projects for the World Bank

and the Organization of American States as a technical legal expert

on international trade and immigration. He has delivered short

courses on these issues in Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salva-

dor, Guatemala, Spain, and the Dominican Republic. He lectures in

English and in Spanish.

Kevin began his teaching career in 2004 as a practitioner-in-

structor for foreign LLM students at American University’s Wash-

ington College of Law. In 2007, he worked with that university to

develop its first Legal English program, which grew from 15 stu-

dents to 50 in 2011. He continues to serve as the substantive law

instructor in that program. In 2009, he was invited to be the Course