Legal education in Asia
By: Shuvro Prosun Sarker (ed.).
Publisher: Eleven International Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: The Hague, The Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9789462360938; 9789460948633
Subjects: Law; Study and teaching
Description: This book contains a scholarly analysis of the status of legal education in fourteen Asian countries namely Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam. What these countries have in common is the increasing acceptance of the rule of law as the organizing principle of governance and pluralism as a fact of life. Law is an integrating element reflecting cultural pluralism amidst social and economic inequalities and political power struggles. The challenge before legal educators in the region is to re-structure legal education in such a way that while retaining the confidence of the people in the judicial apparatus, those who operate the system are trained to make justice accessible and affordable to every person irrespective of their status and income. The present volume provides valuable insights into how the mission is being pursued by legal educators in different countries of the region many of which have legal traditions dating back to ancient times.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Development and problems of the new law school system in Japan  -- Noriyuki Asano; title: Legal education in Vietnam : an overview and future strategic vision  -- Hien Thu Bui, Bruce A. Lasky and Richard Grimes; title: Legal education in China : globalizing with Chinese characteristics  -- Cecily E. Baskir; title: Legal education in Hong Kong : a history of reform  -- Luke Marsh, Michael Ramsden and Christopher Young; title: Legal education in Iran : from theoretical aspects to practicality  -- Setareh Saedi Araghi and Sadaf Raeisi; title: Legal education in Israel : developments and challenges  -- Yael Efron and Noam Ebner; title: Legal education in Jordan : prospects and challenges  -- Nisreen Mahasneh; title: Legal education in Russia : historical overview and current reforms  -- Maria Voskobitova, Olga Shepeleva and Arkady Gutnikov; title: Legal education in Taiwan : a plural system in transition  -- Thomas Chih-hsiung Chen; title: Legal education in Turkey : Ottoman to Bologna  -- Julian Lonbay and Musa Toprak; title: Legal education reform in South Korea : challenges of transition  -- Rosa Kim; title: Moving into the future : legal education in Thailand  -- Lisa Radtke Bliss, Sopit Cheevapanich, Damorn Kumtrai and Panarairat Srichaiyarat; title: Trends in legal education in Bangladesh : a critical review on practical aspects  -- Md. Asaduzzaman and Md. Ershadul Karim; title: Visualizing third generation reform of Indian legal education -- Shuvro Prosun Sarker, Anirban Chakraborty and Shounak Chatterjee.