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 Jose 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.
Summary:
"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 in China and a shift in the late 1980s and beyond to a new, US-influenced format in India, exemplify shifts toward US legal education practices (Flood 2014). The global and Americanizing trend is evident on the web sites of law schools around the globe, with many law schools competing to be the most "global" in terms of their faculty, curricula, teaching methods, and students. Less pronounced but related to the literature on legal globalization is that on "transnationalization" and transnational processes, which is a strong component of the move toward globalization in legal education. As this book shows, if we look to see what is celebrated as part of globalized law schools and faculties, we see increased cross-border flows of professors and students, teaching of transnational legal subjects, development of particular forms of teaching practice such as legal clinics, explicit focus on transnational rankings, and transnationalized scholarly communities sharing teaching and research methods and approaches across domains of law"-- Provided by publisher.
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