Internships in law: challenges, opportunities and the path forward

Hideaki Roy Umetsu is a partner at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto. He focuses on international and domestic M&A transactions, global compliance matters, including anti-corruption complaince, internal investigation, or corporate govenance for oversea subsidiaries. He also gives advice on export controls and other trade-related matters. He was admitted to the bars in Japan (2004) and New York (2010). Umetsu was educated at the University of Tokyo (LL.B., 2003) and the University of Chicago Law School (LL.M., 2009). From 2006 to 2007, he worked as an associate director at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, and he also worked as a foreign associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell from 2009 to 2010.

I am the dean of IE Law School and I am currently copresident of the Law Schools Global League. I have extensive international academic experience and a global vision of legal education. Previously, I practiced as a lawyer at the leading Spanish law firm Pérez-Llorca. I earned a Ph.D in Social Sciences from IE University and I advocate international legal practice and innovation in legal education methodologies. I have an Executive MBA from IE Business School and I hold a Certificate in European Studies from the Europa Institute of the Saarland University in Germany; I was a visiting student at Cornell University in New York, and I have a Law degree from CEU San Pablo University. Among other responsibilities I co-chair the Commission for the Future of Legal Services of the International Bar Association (IBA), where I co-chaired the "Blueprint on global legal education" project; I am a senior advisor to the IBA Academic and Professional Development Committee, and co-director of the Pérez-Llorca-IE Chair of Business Law. I am the author of the book “Enseñar Derecho. ¿Puede servirnos la experiencia de Estados Unidos?” (“Teaching Law: Can the U.S. experience help us?”), on international legal education.