The globalization of legal education : a critical perspective /

"Legal academics and practitioners in recent decades increasingly emphasize the so-called "globalization" of legal education. The diffusion of the Juris Doctor (JD) degree to Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea, as well as the advent of a very similar Juris Master (JM) degree...

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Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Other Authors: Garth, Bryant G. (Editor), Shaffer, Gregory C., 1958- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
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Table of Contents:
  • The globalization of legal education, a critical perspective / Bryant Garth and Gregory Shaffer
  • Strategic philanthropy and international strategies : the Ford Foundation and investments in law schools and legal education (1951-2003) / Ron Levi , Ronit Dinovitzer and Wendy H. Wong
  • The transnationalisation of legal education on the periphery : continuities and changes in colonial logics for a 'globalising' Africa / Michelle Burgis-Kasthala
  • Legal education in South Africa : racialized globalizations, crises and contestations / Ralph Madlalate
  • Battles around legal education reform : from entrenched local legal oligarchies to oligopolistic universals : India as a case study / Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth
  • Asian legal education's engagement with policy / Veronica L. Taylor
  • Transnational legal networks and the reshaping of legal education in Latin America : the Case of SELA / Javier Couso
  • The unstoppable force, the immovable object : challenges for structuring a cosmopolitan legal education in Brazil / Oscar Vilhena Vieira and José Garcez Ghirardi
  • Isolation and globalization : the dawn of legal education in Bhutan / David S. Law
  • China and the globalization of legal education : a look into the future / Philip J. McConnaughay and Colleen B. Toomey
  • Who wants the global law school? / Kevin E. Davis and Xinyi Zhang
  • "Have law books, computer, simulations
  • will travel" : the transnationalization of (some of) the law professoriate / Carrie Menkel-Meadow
  • Who rules the world? The educational capital of the international judiciary / Mikael Rask Madsen
  • Cross-border student flows and the construction of international law as a transnational legal field / Anthea Roberts
  • International law student mobility in context : understanding variations in sticky floors, springboards, stairways and slow escalators / Carole Silver and Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen.