1st Edition

Legal Education in Asia Globalization, Change and Contexts

Edited By Stacey Steele, Kathryn Taylor Copyright 2010
    352 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    352 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Legal education is undergoing rapid change throughout Asia. This book is a critique of the changing nature of legal education in major Asian jurisdictions as diverse as Afghanistan, Australia, Cambodia, the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam. It provides cross-country comparative material, including Western legal education systems, and particularly detailed coverage of Japan, whose legal education system has been used by many other countries in Asia as a model to imitate.   Despite the diverse histories, societies, traditions and political and economic situations of these countries, they all share common themes of change, renewal and reform in their legal education systems. The jurisdictions also generally tend to be embracing globalisation, despite (or in some instances because of) the association of globalisation with other movements, such as the development of market economies and neo-liberal ideals.

    This is the first significant collection available in English on the subject of pre-qualification legal education in Asia, providing a valuable multi-jurisdictional tool for academics and students of Asian legal studies, law reformers, governance experts, development practitioners and lawyers working in the region.

    Foreword - Kenneth Hayne  Note on Citation and Naming Conventions  Acknowledgements and Dedication  List of Contributors  List of Photographs and Tables  Part I: Introduction  1. Introduction – Legal Education in Asia: Globalization, Change and Contexts - Stacey Steele and Kathryn Taylor  2. The Study of Asian Legal Systems in Australia and Professor Malcolm D.H. Smith: They Called Him ‘Mal’ - Stacey Steele  Part II: Legal Education: Globalization And Contexts  3. Gatekeepers: A Comparative Critique of Admission to the Legal Profession and Japan’s New Law Schools - Kent Anderson and Trevor Ryan  4. Internationalization of Legal Education: Putting the ‘Why’ Before The ‘How’ - Jeff Waincymer  5. Teaching and Researching Japanese Law: A German Perspective - Harald Baum  Part III: Legal Education In Developed Economies  6. Legal Education in Hong Kong: Producing The Producers - Carol Jones  7. Thinking of the Development of Legal Education in Taiwan: An Analysis of the History Of Law and Society - Tay-Sheng Wang, Translated and Abridged by Sean Cooney  8. Legal Education in Singapore and the Introduction of a New Law School at the Singapore Management University: A New Chapter Begins - Kee Yang Low  9. Legal Education In Korea: New Law School Reforms - Simon Lee  Part IV: Country Case Study – Japan  10. Creation of Japanese Law Schools and their Current Development - Noboru Kashiwagi  11. Butaman for Breakfast and Other Morsels of Legal Reasoning - Dan Rosen  Part V: Legal Education In Transitional Economies  12. Asia’s Legal Education as Development - Veronica Taylor  13. Effectiveness of Donor-Funded Legal Education: A Vietnamese Retrospective - Pip Nicholson and Samantha Hinderling  14. Legal Education in the People’s Republic Of China: The Ongoing Story of Politics and Law - Sarah Biddulph  15. Legal Education in Cambodia: Shunning the Course Of History - Teilee Kuong  16. Islamic Legal Education in Indonesia: Tradition In Transition - Jemma Parsons and Jamhari Makruf

    Biography

    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.