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Comparative Legal Education

Cheng-Han TAN, Alan Koh, Topo Santoso, Umakanth Varottil, Jiangyu WANG

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 12 - Chapter in an edited book (Author)peer-review

Abstract

This chapter considers trends and developments in legal education in Asia through the lens of some representative polities, namely China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore. The experience of these polities indicates that understanding of legal education in Asia cannot be divorced from colonisation and the imposition (or reception) of Western law. It has also been influenced more recently by globalisation as seen from increased cross-border flows of faculty and students, the teaching of transnational law subjects, the development of particular forms of teaching practice such as legal clinics and programmes equivalent to the Juris Doctor, explicit focus on transnational rankings, and transnational scholarly communities engaged in teaching and research collaboration. © Cambridge University Press 2024
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Law
EditorsMathias Siems, Po Jen Yap
Place of PublicationUnited Kingdom
PublisherCambridge University Press
Chapter36
Pages713-734
Number of pages22
ISBN (Electronic)9781108914741
ISBN (Print)9781108843089
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

Publication series

NameCambridge Law Handbooks
PublisherCambridge University Press

Research Keywords

  • legal education
  • globalisation
  • China
  • Hong Kong
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Japan
  • Taiwan
  • Singapore

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