Legal education in Asia : globalization, change, and contexts / / edited by Stacey Steele and Kathryn Taylor

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (349 p.)
• Disciplina: 340.07115
• Soggetto topico: Law - Study and teaching - Asia; International law - Study and teaching - Asia
• Altri autori: SteeleStacey TaylorKathryn <1977->
• Note generali: Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements and dedication; Note on citation and naming conventions; Part I: Introduction; 1 Introduction: Globalization, change and contexts; 2 The study of Asian legal systems in Australia and Professor Malcolm D. H. Smith: They called him 'Mal'; Part II: Legal education: Globalization and contexts; 3 Gatekeepers: A comparative critique of admission to the legal profession and Japan's new law schools; 4 Internationalization of legal education: Putting the 'why' before the 'how' ; 5 Teaching and researching Japanese law: A German perspectivePart III: Legal education in developed economies; 6 Legal education in Hong Kong: Producing the producers; 7 The development of legal education in Taiwan: An analysis of the history of law and society; 8 Legal education in Singapore and the introduction of a new law school at the Singapore Management University: A new chapter begins; 9 Legal education in Korea: New law school reforms; Part IV: Country case study: Japan; 10 Creation of Japanese law schools and their current development ; 11 Butaman for breakfast and other morsels of legal reasoningPart V: Legal education in transitional economies; 12 Legal education as development; 13 Effectiveness of donor-funded legal education: A Vietnamese retrospective; 14 Legal education in the People's Republic of China: The ongoing story of politics and law; 15 Legal education in Cambodia: Shunning the course of history; 16 Islamic legal education in Indonesia: Tradition in transition; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, t
• ISBN: 1-135-18236-1; 1-135-18237-X; 1-282-44363-1; 9786612443633; 0-203-86225-2; 9780203862254
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911151641003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge law in Asia ; ; 7.