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

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : globalization, change and contexts / Stacey Steele and Kathryn Taylor -- The study of Asian legal systems in Australia and Professor Malcolm D.H. Smith : they called him 'Mal' / Stacey Steele -- Gatekeepers : a comparative critique of admission to the legal profession and Japan's new law schools / Kent Anderson and Trevor Ryan -- Internationalization of legal education : putting the 'why' before the 'how' / Jeff Waincymer -- Teaching and researching Japanese law : a German perspective / Harald Baum -- Legal education in Hong Kong : producing the producers / Carol Jones -- The development of legal education in Taiwan : an analysis of the history of law and society / Tay-Shieng Wang -- Legal education in Singapore and the introduction of a new law school at the Singapore Management University : a new chapter begins / Kee Yang Low -- Legal education in Korea : new law school reforms / Simon Spencer Reyner Lee -- Creation of Japanese law schools and their current development / Noboru Kashiwagi -- Butaman for breakfast and other morsels of legal reasoning / Dan Rosen -- Legal education as development / Veronica L. Taylor -- Effectiveness of donor-funded legal education : a Vietnamese retrospective / Pip Nicholson and Samantha Hinderling -- Legal education in the People's Republic of China : the ongoing story of politics and law / Sarah Biddulph -- Legal education in Cambodia : shunning the course of history / Teilee Kuong -- Islamic legal education in Indonesia : tradition in transition / Jemma Parsons and Jamiari Makruf.

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{u2019}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, traditions and political and economic situations of these countries, they all share common themes of change, renewal and reform in their legal education systems. The jurisdictions also generally tend to be embracing globalisation, despite (or in some instances because of) the association of globalisation with other movements, such as the development of market economies and neo-liberal ideals. This is the first significant collection available in English on the subject of pre-qualification legal education in Asia, providing a valuable multi-jurisdictional tool for academics and students of Asian legal studies, law reformers, governance experts, development practitioners and lawyers working in the region.