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 regions 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.
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1 The Fall and Rise of Legal Education in Asia: Inhibition, Imitation, Innovation |
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2 Asian Culture Meets Western Law, the Collective Confronts the Individual: The Necessity and Challenges of a Cross-cultural Legal Education |
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3 Going Global: Australia Looks to Internationalise Legal Education |
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4 The Rhetoric of Corruption and The Law School Curriculum: Why Aren't Law Schools Teaching About Corruption? |
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5 Teaching Comparative Law in Singapore: Global and Local Challenges |
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6 International Moot Court as Equaliser: An Asian Paradigm |
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7 "Closing the Gap" between Legal Education and Courtroom Practice in Japan: Yoken Jijitsu Teaching and the Role of the Judiciary |
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8 Legal Education in South Korea: Does Continuance of the Old Judicial Examination Style Ruin the Dream of Ideal Legal Education? |
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9 Experientialization of Legal Education in Hong Kong: Adoption and Adaptation |
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10 Preparing for the Sinicization of the Western Legal Tradition: The Case of Peking University School of Transnational Law |
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11 Globalisation and Innovative Study: Legal Education in China |
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12 Legal Education in 21st Century Vietnam: From Imitation to Renovation |
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13 Legal Studies at T ham in a sat University: A Microcosm of the Development of Thai Legal Education |
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14 Second Fiddle: Why Indonesia's Top Graduates Shy Away from being Judges and Prosecutors, and What We Can Do about It |
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Andrew Harding, Ph.D., Monash University, is Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore.
Jiaxiang Hu, Ph.D. (2003), Edinburgh University, is Professor of Public International Law at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Maartje de Visser, Ph.D. (2009), Tilburg University, is Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Postgraduate Teaching & Curriculum) at the School of Law, Singapore Management University.
