Legal Education in Asia

Globalization, Change and Contexts
Herausgeber: Steele, Stacey; Taylor, Kathryn

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a critique of the rapidly changing nature of legal education in major Asian jurisdictions as diverse as Afghanistan, Australia, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam. It provides cross-country comparative material, including western legal education systems, and particularly detailed coverage of Japan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9780415494335
• ISBN-10: 0415494338
• Artikelnr.: 28523853

Autorenporträt

Stacey Steele is Associate Director at Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia. Kathryn Taylor is the Manager of the Asian Law Centre at the University of Melbourne Law School.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction 1. Introduction - Legal Education in Asia:
Globalization, Change and Contexts 2. The Study of Asian Legal Systems in
Australia and Professor Malcolm D.H. Smith: They Called Him 'Mal' Part 2:
Legal Education: Globalization and Contexts 3. Gatekeepers: A Comparative
Critique of Admission to the Legal Profession and Japan's New Law Schools
4. Internationalization of Legal Education: Putting the 'Why' Before The
'How' 5. Teaching and Researching Japanese Law: A German Perspective Part
3: Legal Education in Developed Economies 6. Legal Education in Hong Kong:
Producing The Producers 7. Thinking of the Development of Legal Education
in Taiwan: An Analysis of the History Of Law and Society 8. Legal Education
in Singapore and the Introduction of a New Law School at the Singapore
Management University: A New Chapter Begins 9. Legal Education In Korea:
New Law School Reforms Part 4: Country Case Study - Japan 10. Creation of
Japanese Law Schools and their Current Development 11. Butaman for
Breakfast and Other Morsels of Legal Reasoning Part 5: Legal Education In
Transitional Economies 12. Asia's Legal Education as Development 13.
Effectiveness of Donor-Funded Legal Education: A Vietnamese Retrospective
14. Legal Education in the People's Republic Of China: The Ongoing Story of
Politics and Law 15. Legal Education in Cambodia: Shunning the Course Of
History 16. Islamic Legal Education in Indonesia: Tradition in Transition