American Legal Education Abroad : : Critical Histories / / ed. by Susan Bartie, David Sandomierski.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Badejogbin, Rebecca Emiene,; Bartie, Susan,; Carle, Susan D.,; Dawuni, J. Jarpa,; Ghirardi, José Garcez,; Girard, Philip,; Gordon, Robert W.,; Halpérin, Jean- Louis,; Harrington, John,; Kelli, Aleksei,; Kimball, Bruce A.,; Kroncke, Jedidiah J.,; Kull, Irene,; Lahav, Pnina,; Manji, Ambreena,; Matsuura, Yoshiharu,; Ristikivi, Merike,; Salcedo, Emily Sanchez,; Sandomierski, David,; Sugarman, David,; Å Modéer, Kjell,
• HerausgeberIn: Bartie, Susan,; Sandomierski, David,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 1 b/w illustration

A critical history of the Americanization of legal education in fourteen countriesThe second half of the twentieth century witnessed the export of American power—both hard and soft—throughout the world. What role did US cultural and economic imperialism play in legal education? American Legal Education Abroad offers an unprecedented and surprising picture of the history of legal education in fourteen countries beyond the United States.Each study in this book represents a critical history of the Americanization of legal education, reexamining prevailing narratives of exportation, transplantation, and imperialism. Collectively, these studies challenge the conventional wisdom that American ideas and practices have dominated globally. Editors Susan Bartie and David Sandomierski and their contributors suggest that to understand legal education and to respond thoughtfully to the mounting present-day challenges, it is essential to look beyond a particular region and consider not only the ideas behind legal education but also the broader historical, political, and cultural factors that have shaped them.American Legal Education Abroad begins with an important foundational history by leading Harvard Law School historian Bruce Kimball, who explains the factors that created a transportable American legal model, and the book concludes with reflections from two prominent American law professors, Susan Carle and Bob Gordon, whose observations on recent disruptions within US law schools suggest that their influence within the global order of legal education may soon fall into further decline. This book should be considered an invaluable resource for anyone in the field of law.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Foundation Stories -- 1. The Proliferation and Transformation of Harvard’s Case Method in the United States, 1870s– 1990s -- 2. How America Did (and Didn’t) Influence English Legal Education, circa 1870– 1965 -- Part 2: Americanization— Critical Histories -- 3. American Influences, Canadian Realities -- 4. Functionalism, Legal Process, and the Transformation (and Subordination) of Australian Law Schools -- 5. Conservatives, Nationalists, and American Romantics Debating Legal Education in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana -- 6. Transplantation and Domestication of American Models of Legal Education in Nigeria -- 7. Model, System, or Node? -- 8. Transplants in Estonian Legal Education -- 9. “The Turn to the West” -- 10. The American Case Method and New Japanese Legal Education -- 11. Legal Education in France Turns Its Attention to the Harvard Model -- 12. American Moment(s) -- 13. Catalytic Agents? -- 14. Legal Teaching and the Reconceptualizing of the State -- 15. Socratic Method, Philippine- style -- Part 3: US Perspectives -- 16. Rethinking Assumptions about the Global Influence of US Legal Education -- 17. The Harvard Models in Their Native Habitat and Abroad -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Index