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Legal Education in Asia: From Imitation to Innovation

Legal Education in Asia: From Imitation to Innovation

Author: Andrew Harding; Jiaxiang Hu; Maartje de Visser
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
ISBN: 9789004349681
Published In: December 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Disclaimer:
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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.

Preface

Maartje de Visser, Hu Jiaxiang and Andrew Harding

The Fall and Rise of Legal Education in Asia: Inhibition, Imitation, Innovation

Simon Chesterman

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

Going Global: Australia Looks to Internationalise Legal Education

Ann Black and Peter Black

The Rhetoric of Corruption & The Law School Curriculum: Why Aren’t Law Schools Teaching About Corruption?

Helena Whalen-Bridge

Teaching Comparative Law in Singapore: Global and Local Challenges

Andrew Harding and Maartje de Visser