Research Handbook on Global Legal Education

Name: Research Handbook on Global Legal Education
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781788117005
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Author: Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen; Bryant G. Garth
ISBN: 9781788117005

Edited by Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen · Bryant G. Garth

Coming Soon Edward Elgar Publishing Available August 2026

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ISBN-13: 9781788117005
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: August 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This authoritative Research Handbook examines legal training and its impact on law and society. Leading experts adopt a kaleidoscope perspective to compare diverse country case studies, highlighting shifting patterns rather than a single model of ‘global’ legal education.

Contributors explore how legal education remains nationalised via local histories, politics and markets, despite borrowing models and language from modern, merit-based, or global approaches. Chapters assess the appearance of law schools as powerful sites where divisions of class, race, gender, empire and prestige are reproduced, contested and sometimes reimagined. The Research Handbook demonstrates how familiar patterns of hierarchies, inequalities and Western-centric ideals travel widely alongside diverse efforts in majority world contexts to resist, revisit and reimagine fairer institutions. Combining doctrinal analysis, institutional histories, archives, interviews and fieldwork, this Research Handbook advances research and promotes further study.

The Research Handbook is a crucial resource for legal education scholars and practitioners and also global scholars of the legal profession. It is prime reading for students and scholars of law and society and comparative institutions seeking more information on the factors shaping the legal landscape today.

Introduction: a kaleidoscopic invitation to consider global legal education 1; Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen and Bryant G. Garth; PART I COMPARATIVE COLONIAL AND COSMOPOLITAN CAPITALS; Introduction to Part I; 1.
Legal education with a socio-linguistic mission: teaching the Canadian common law in French at Université de Moncton 11: Adrien Habermacher; 2.
“Enroll and stay alive”: legal education in Colombia from a comparative perspective 26: Maria Adelaida Ceballos-Bedoya and Mauricio García-Villegas; 3.
Global legal education in Scotland: reflections from the global law LLB at Edinburgh Law School 46: Deval Desai and Gail Lythgoe; 4.
The corporatization of universities and unions as agents of resistance 61: Priya S. Gupta; PART II NEOLIBERAL ACCESS AND OPPORTUNITY; Introduction to Part II; Bryant G. Garth and Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen; 5.
Legal education in Russia: social disparities, market changes and post-Soviet legacy 87: Timur Bocharov and Aryna Dzmitryieva; 6.
Navigating growth: the challenges of maintaining legal education quality in India’s expanding law schools 105: Rahela Khorakiwala and Daksh Saroha; 7.
Mexico: some data to calm anxiety about the growth of law schools 127: Sergio Iván Anzola Rodríguez and Luis Alfonso Mora Ruenes; 8.
Community legal education and our duty to dream 139: Antonio M. Coronado, Cayley Balser, Gabriela Elizondo-Craig, Shannon S. Hayes, Abigael McGuire and Marisol Rodriguez-Cruz; PART III GLOBALIZATION AS PROCESS AND REPRODUCTION; Introduction to Part III; Bryant G. Garth and Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen; 9.
“Like whom, mom?” Structural inequalities in Brazilian law schools 160: Daniel Freitas Nunes and Fabio de Sá e Silva; 10.
From reform to reinforcement: bar-exam meritocracy, elite capacity, and gender education at Japanese law schools 185: Ayako Hirata; 11.
Internationalization in the Korean law school system: its demand and structural barriers 199: Jae-Hyup Lee and Jisuk Woo; 12.
Comparative law and society as Asian legal studies: the view from Australian law schools 222: Melissa Crouch; 13.
International student diasporas in global legal education 239: Carole Silver and Ritika Giri; PART IV CURRICULUM INTERVENTIONS; Introduction to Part IV; Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen and Bryant G. Garth; 14.
Ethics and legal education in Latin America 278: Juny Montoya Vargas and Carlos F. Morales de Setién Ravina; 15.
Mainstreaming climate change in global legal education 297: Julia Dehm and Zoe Nay; 16.
Race and indigeneity and the law as “required reading”: can curricular reform lead to greater access to justice for all? 319: Cindy Thomas Archer; 17.
Forward from Kirksey v. Kirksey: slavery, legal education and the doctrine of consideration 339: Justin Simard; 18.
What is the goal of student pro bono? Public service values and the emotions 351: Helena Whalen-Bridge; 19.
Reimagining legal education at the dawn of artificial legal intelligence: Toward a human-centered hybrid 366: John Bliss; PART V LOOKING FOR LAW AND/IN SOCIAL CHANGE; Introduction to Part V; Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen and Bryant G. Garth; 20.
Critical curriculum design 381: Rachel López; 21.
Prefigurative legal education 398: Sameer M. Ashar; 22.
Remaking South African legal education: the state, the legal profession and student activism 419: Ralph Madlalate; Conclusion: a kaleidoscopic view of global legal education 437