Teaching in a Developing Country Mistakes Made and Lessons…发展中国家的教学错误和教训.pdfVIP

University of Florida Levin College of Law UF Law Scholarship Repository Faculty Publications Faculty Scholarship 3-1998 Teaching in a Developing Country: Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned in Uganda Stuart R . Cohn University of F lorida Levin College of L aw, cohn@ Follow this and additional works at : /facultypub Part of the Legal Education Commons Recommended Citation Stuart R . Cohn, Teaching i n a Developi ng Co untry: M istakes Made and Lessons Learned in Ug anda, 48 J. Legal Educ. 101 (1998), available at /facultypub/431 This Article is brought to you for ree and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at UF Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of UF Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact outler@. Teaching in a Developing Country: Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned in Uganda Stuart R. Cohn The growing use of English as the lingua franca is matched by the use of United States laws as models to emulate in both developed and less developed countries. The result is an increasing flow of information and technology transfer from legal, financial, and technical experts in the U.S. to their counterparts abroad. I have been privileged to be part of that process in recent years, and I have learned that a heres-how-its-done approach is the antithesis of an effective foreign training or teaching program. A recent experience in East Africa brought that point home with particular emphasis. InJuly 1997 1traveled to Kampala, Uganda, to teach a securities regulation course-Development and Regulation of Capital Markets-to a group of