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Book SynopsisLegal 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.
Table of ContentsPreface Maartje de Visser, Hu Jiaxiang and Andrew Harding 1 The Fall and Rise of Legal Education in Asia: Inhibition, Imitation, Innovation Simon Chesterman 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 3 Going Global: Australia Looks to Internationalise Legal Education Ann Black and Peter Black 4 The Rhetoric of Corruption & The Law School Curriculum: Why Aren’t Law Schools Teaching About Corruption? Helena Whalen-Bridge 5 Teaching Comparative Law in Singapore: Global and Local Challenges Andrew Harding and Maartje de Visser 6 International Moot Court as Equaliser: An Asian Paradigm Chen Siyuan 7 “Closing the Gap” between Legal Education and Courtroom Practice in Japan: Yôken Jijitsu Teaching and the Role of the Judiciary Souichirou Kozuka 8 Legal Education in South Korea: Does Continuance of the Old Judicial Examination Style Ruin the Dream of Ideal Legal Education? Yong Chul Park 9 Experientialization of Legal Education in Hong Kong – Adoption and Adaptation Wilson Chow, Michael Ng and Julienne Jen 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 11 Globalisation and Innovative Study: Legal Education in China Li Xueyao, Li Yiran and Hu Jiaxiang 12 Legal Education in 21st Century Vietnam: From Imitation to Renovation Bui Ngoc Son 13 Legal Studies at Thammasat University: A Microcosm of the Development of Thai Legal Education Munin Pongsapan 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 Index
