Raising the bar
Subtitle: the emerging legal profession in East Asia
By: edited by William P. Alford ; with the assistance of Geraldine Chin, Laura A. Cecere, and Emma Johnson.
Contributors: Alford, William P.; Chin, Geraldine.; Cecere, Laura A.; Johnson, Emma.
Publisher: East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
Subjects: Lawyers -- East Asia; Lawyers -- Southeast Asia
Table of contents: title: The education and training of the legal profession In Korea : problems and prospects for reform / Sang-Hyun Song; title: legal profession and legal culture during Korea's transition to democracy and a market economy / Jae-Won Kim; title: International strategies and local transformations : preliminaray observations of the position of law in the field of state power in Asia : South Korea / Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth; title: The politics of judicial reform in Japan : the rule of law at last? / Setsun Miuazawa; title: The turn toward law : the mergence of corporate law firms in contemporary Japan / Ryo Hamano; title: Globalization of Japanese corporations and the developmetn of corporate legal departments : problems and prospects / Toshimitsu Kitagawa and Luke Nottage; title: Of lawyers lost and found : searching for legal professionalism in the people's Republic of China  / William P. Alford; title: lawyers, legal aid, and legitimacy in China / Benjamin L. Liebman; title: The role of lawyers in taiwan's emerging democracy / Jane kaufman Winn; title: A tale of two legal professions : lawyers and state in Malaysia and Indonesia / Daniel S. Lev.