The globalization of legal education : a critical perspective / edited by Bryant Garth & Gregory Shaffer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garth, Bryant G., editor.

Shaffer, Gregory C., 1958- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Study and teaching.

Law.

Law and globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (553 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

'The Globalization of Legal Education', with contributors from nine countries, seeks to critically understand the processes of legal education reform and resistance and to point to what these processes mean for law and lawyers inside and outside of the United States.

Contents:

Cover

Half title

The Globalization of Legal Education

Copyright

Contents

List of Authors

Part I

1. The Globalization of Legal Education: A Critical Perspective

I. Historical Perspectives

II. Theoretical Approaches

A. Transnational Legal Ordering

B. Comparative Sociology of Legal Professions

III. General Themes: The Transnational Meets the Local in Legal Education Reform

IV. An Introduction to and Thematic Reading of the Book's Chapters

A. Transnational Processes in the Reform of Legal Education

B. Global Law Schools

C. Transnational Flows of Students, Faculty, and Judges in the Constitution of Legal Fields

V. Final Remarks

Part II

2. Strategic Philanthropy and International Strategies: The Ford Foundation and Investments in Law Schools and Legal Education

I. Introduction

II. The Ford Foundation, Law, and International Justice

III. The Ford Foundation and Legal Education

A. Legal Education as Training for International Democracy and Citizenship

B. Legal Education as Expertise for Social Change

C. Human Rights and Civil Rights

D. Legal Education and Legal Institutions for Development Abroad

E. Turning to International Organizations

IV. Conclusion

3. The Transnationalization of Legal Education on the Periphery: Continuities and Changes in Colonial Logics for a "Globalizing" Africa

II. The Role of Law and Legal Education in Colonial Africa

III. Decolonization during the Cold War: The Promise and the Failure of Law and Legal Education in the African "Developmental University," 1950s-​1970s

IV. From Privatization to Commercialization: Impoverishment of African Higher Education as Recolonization, 1970s-​1990s.

V. African Legal Education in the Twenty-​first Century: Regionalization and Internationalization vs. Globalization and Neocolonialism

VI. Conclusion

4. Legal Education in South Africa: Racialized Globalizations, Crises, and Contestations

II. The Origins of Legal Education in South Africa: Colonial Apartheid as Context

A. The Ideology of Apartheid Legal Education

III. Regearing Legal Education Post-​apartheid: Facing and Contesting Transformation

IV. Transformation and Its Discontents: Crises in the Age of Globalization

V. Conclusion

5. Battles Around Legal Education Reform in India: From Entrenched Local Legal Oligarchies to Oligopolistic Universals

I. India: Colonial Path Dependencies Revisited: An Embattled Senior Bar, the Marginalization of Knowledge, and Internationalized Challengers

II. The Bar

III. Challenges to the Elite Bench and Bar

6. Asian Legal Education's Engagement with Policy

II. Prologue: Talking about Rule of Law in Yangon

III. Legal Education's Knowledge Mandate

IV. Shaping Law School Engagement with Policy in Asia

A. The PRC: The Case of the Disappearing Legal Clinic

B. The Philippines: Declining to Engage

C. Indonesia: The Scholarship Vacuum

D. Japan: Capture and Capitulation

7. Transnational Legal Networks and the Reshaping of Legal Education in Latin America: The Case of SELA

II. The "Latin American Seminar on Constitutional and Political Theory" (SELA)

III. SELA's Annual Meeting

IV. SELA's Ethos and Purpose

Part III

8. The Unstoppable Force, the Immovable Object: Challenges for Structuring a Cosmopolitan Legal Education in Brazil.

I. Globalization, Return to Democratic Rule, and the Need for Innovative Legal Professionals in Brazil

II. Traditional Legal Education and Political Perspectives in Brazil

III. Three Main Challenges Attached to Offering Global-​Oriented Legal Education in Brazil

IV. Three Traps: Legal Colonialism, Academic Solipsism, and Elitism

A. Legal Colonialism

B. Academic Solipsism

C. Elitism

9. Isolation and Globalization: The Dawn of Legal Education in Bhutan

II. Three Impressions: Isolation, Tradition, Anxiety

III. The History of Bhutan's First Law School

IV. Curriculum

V. Faculty

A. Faculty Training

B. Faculty Recruitment

VI. Admissions

VII. International Influences

A. India

B. The United States

C. Austria

D. Other Countries

VIII. Conclusion

10. China and the Globalization of Legal Education: A Look into the Future

I. STL in the Beginning

II. STL's Pivot to China

III. The Influence of Shenzhen and the Rest of the Non-​West

IV. Some Advantages and Challenges of Being Part of a Chinese University

11. Who Wants the Global Law School?

II. Derived Demand

A. Globalization and the Demand for Transnational Legal Services

B. Demand for Multijural Lawyers

C. Derived Demand for Multijural Legal Education

D. Evidence of Derived Demand for Multijural Legal Education

III. A Theory of Constructed Demand

A. Limitations of Derived Demand

B. An Alternative to Derived Demand

IV. NYU Law Abroad

A. Background

B. Evidence of Derived Demand

C. Evidence of Constructed Demand

12. "Have Law Books, Computer, Simulations-​Will Travel": The Transnationalization of (Some of) the Law Professoriate

I. Introduction: The Peripatetic Law Professor and Her Data Sources.

II. Some Illustrations from CTLS and Points Beyond

III. Comparisons to Other Forms of Global Legal Education

IV. Assessing Impacts?

A. Curriculum and Pedagogy

B. Research and Scholarship

C. Cultural Competency or "Capability"

D. Institutional Sensitivity, Competence, and Innovation

Part IV

13. Who Rules the World? The Educational Capital of the International Judiciary

I. Studying the International Judiciary

II. How International Are International Judges? Studying at Home or Abroad?

III. Elite Universities and the International Judiciary

IV. Discussion and Conclusion

14. Cross-​Border Student Flows and the Construction of International Law as a Transnational Legal Field

I. Transnational Student Flows

A. Cross-​Border Flows of Students in General

B. The Globalization of Legal Education

C. Implications for the Divisible College

II. Educational Backgrounds of Professors

A. Tracking Educational Diversity

B. Explaining Educational Diversity

1. Lack of Educational Diversity: Russia and France

2. Intermediate Educational Diversity: China and the United States

3. Significant Educational Diversity: The United Kingdom and Australia

III. Conclusion

15. International Law Student Mobility in Context: Understanding Variations in Sticky Floors, Springboards, Stairways, and Slow Escalators

I. Trends in International Legal Education

II. Mobile Pathways: Sticky Floors, Springboards, Stairways, and Slow Escalators

III. Glocal Trends: Local Contexts, Global Repercussions

IV. Discussion

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

"This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version: Garth, Bryant The Globalization of Legal Education

ISBN:

0-19-763234-3

0-19-763232-7

0-19-763233-5