American Legal Education Abroad : : Critical Histories /

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

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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 Educat...

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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
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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

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