Legal education in Asia : from imitation to innovation / Edited by Andrew Harding, Jiaxiang Hu, Maartje de Visser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harding, Andrew.

Hu, Jiaxiang.

De Visser, Maartje.

Series:

Brill's Asian Law Series 6.

Brill's Asian law series ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Study and teaching--Asia.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 354 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill Nijhoff, 2017.

Summary:

Legal education systems, like legal systems themselves, were framed across Asia without exception according to foreign models. These reflect the vestiges of colonialism, and can be said to amount to imitating the style and purposes of legal education typical in Western and relatively "pure" common law and civilian systems. Today, however, we see Asian legal education coming into its own and beginning to accept responsibility for designing curricula and approaches that fit the region’s particular needs. This book explores how conventional "transplanted" approaches as regards program design as well as modes of teaching are, or are on the cusp of being, reimagined and discerns emerging home-grown traces of innovation replacing imitation in countries and universities across East Asia.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: The Fall and Rise of Legal Education in Asia: Inhibition, Imitation, Innovation / Simon Chesterman

Chapter 2: Asian Culture Meets Western Law, the Collective Confronts the Individual: The Necessity and Challenges of a Cross-cultural Legal Education / Francis SL Wang and Laura WY Young

Chapter 3: Going Global: Australia Looks to Internationalise Legal Education / Ann Black and Peter Black

Chapter 4: The Rhetoric of Corruption and The Law School Curriculum: Why Aren’t Law Schools Teaching About Corruption? / Helena Whalen-Bridge

Chapter 5: Teaching Comparative Law in Singapore: Global and Local Challenges / Andrew Harding and Maartje de Visser

Chapter 6: International Moot Court as Equaliser: An Asian Paradigm / Chen Siyuan

Chapter 7: “Closing the Gap” between Legal Education and Courtroom Practice in Japan: Yôken Jijitsu Teaching and the Role of the Judiciary / Souichirou Kozuka

Chapter 8: Legal Education in South Korea: Does Continuance of the Old Judicial Examination Style Ruin the Dream of Ideal Legal Education? / Yong Chul Park

Chapter 9: Experientialization of Legal Education in Hong Kong: Adoption and Adaptation / Wilson Chow , Michael Ng and Julienne Jen

Chapter 10: Preparing for the Sinicization of the Western Legal Tradition: The Case of Peking University School of Transnational Law / Philip J. McConnaughay and Colleen B. Toomey

Chapter 11: Globalisation and Innovative Study: Legal Education in China / Li Xueyao , Li Yiran and Hu Jiaxiang

Chapter 12: Legal Education in 21st Century Vietnam: From Imitation to Renovation / Bui Ngoc Son

Chapter 13: Legal Studies at Thammasat University: A Microcosm of the Development of Thai Legal Education / Munin Pongsapan

Chapter 14: Second Fiddle: Why Indonesia’s Top Graduates Shy Away from being Judges and Prosecutors, and What We Can Do about It / Linda Yanti Sulistiawati and Ibrahim Hanif.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9789004349698

9004349693

OCLC:

1065299455

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004349698 DOI