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Legal Education Reform In Africa: Time To Revisit The Two-Tier Legal Education System, Okechukwu Oko Dec 2021

Legal Education Reform In Africa: Time To Revisit The Two-Tier Legal Education System, Okechukwu Oko

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

The two-tier legal education system has become increasingly ineffective by virtue of the evolution of changes in legal practice and Africa’s unique conditions and circumstances. The problem is rooted in the fact that some African countries adopted the two-tier legal education system on the assumption that what worked in Britain offered a prescription for success in Africa. However, the two-tier legal education system has been ineffective in Africa because the infrastructure—pupilage, apprenticeship, continuing legal education—that complements and anneals it is not widely available in Africa. Where these elements exist, they tend to be frail and unreliable. Africa’s urgent challenge is …


Beyond Litigation: Legal Education Reform In Japan And What Japan's New Lawyers Will Do, George Schumann Apr 2006

Beyond Litigation: Legal Education Reform In Japan And What Japan's New Lawyers Will Do, George Schumann

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

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