Bilingual higher education in the legal context
Subtitle: group rights, state policies and globalisation
By: edited by Xabier Arzoz
Series: Studies in international minority and group rights -- v. 2
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9789004209251
Subjects: Law and legislation; Law schools; Bilingual Education; Universities and colleges
Description: The aim of this book is to document the experiences of institutions and states that are implementing bilingual higher education policies in the legal context, to identify the different approaches and to suggest some of the likely areas for future theoretical development. It examines the role of higher education language policies (medium-of-instruction policies in higher education) in mediating the tension between on the one hand the centralizing forces of stated-mandated policies and globalisation and demands for language rights by ethnic and linguistic minorities on the other.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Legal education in bilingual contexts : a conceptual, historical and comparative perspective / Xabier Arzoz; title: Bilingualism and legal education in Canada : the classical approach / Andre Braen; title: Linguistic law in higher education in Belgium : new trends for bilingual education, but which one? / Sophie Weerts; title: The Swiss paradox: monolingual higher education in a multicultural environment / Nicole Schmitt; title: Implementing linguistic rights through legal education in Finnish and Swedish in Finland / Markku Suksi; title: Basque-medium legal education in the Basque country / Xabier Arzoz; title: Bilingual higher education in Catalonia / Eva Pons; title: Living on borrowed time : bilingual law teaching in Galicia, or the urgent need to recover prestige / Alba Nogueira; title: Bilingual legal scholarship in Wales : historical and contemporary perspectives / Gwyn Parry; title: Legal education in Hungarian language in Transylvania : between a glorious past and an uncertain future / Gyula Fabian; title: Creating, studying and experimenting bilingual law in South Tyrol : lost in interpretation? / Elisabeth Alber and Francesco Palermo; title: English-medium legal education in continental Europe : Maastricht University's European Law School - experiences and challenges / Nicole Kornet; title: Bilingual legal education in Europe and Canada / Bethan Sarah Davies.