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Legal Education Reform In Africa: Time To Revisit The Two-Tier Legal Education System, Okechukwu Oko
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 …
Legal Education In Argentina: A Plea For Comparative Law In A Multicultural Environment, Agustín Parise
Legal Education In Argentina: A Plea For Comparative Law In A Multicultural Environment, Agustín Parise
Louisiana Law Review
The article explores multiculturalism and comparative law within law schools in Argentina, and includes an overview of the legal education and the challenges that education faces in the country.
Becoming Global Lawyers? A Comparative Study Of Civic Professionalism, John Bliss
Becoming Global Lawyers? A Comparative Study Of Civic Professionalism, John Bliss
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
Through their professional education and training, new lawyers are generally encouraged to adopt a civic vision of professional identity. This article explores convergences and diverges in how new lawyers entering an increasingly globalized legal profession conceive of their civic roles in different national contexts. In particular, I examine corporate lawyers-in-training in the U.S. and China, drawing on interviews and a cross-cultural identity mapping method to compare their accounts of the lived experiences of civic professionalism. I find that professional identity formation in the U.S. sample is largely marked by role distancing and a sense of constrained public-interest expression. In contrast, …