Clinical Legal Education in Asia

Accessing Justice for the Underprivileged

  • Shuvro Prosun Sarker
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Clinical Legal Education and Its Asian Characteristics
    Bruce Avery Lasky, Shuvro Prosun Sarker
    Pages 1-15
  3. Better Lawyers, Better Justice: Introducing Clinical Legal Education in the Maldives
    Marium Jabyn, Rogena Sterling
    Pages 17-35
  4. Chinese Clinical Legal Education: Globalizing and Localizing
    Cecily E. Baskir, Ma Liqun, Li Ao
    Pages 37-52
  5. Clinical Education in South Korean Law Schools: Challenges and Hopes
    Helen Haekyong Kang, Kyung Sin Park
    Pages 53-74
  6. Clinical Education in Taiwanese Law Schools
    Thomas Chih-hsiung Chen
    Pages 75-89
  7. Clinical Legal Education in Israel
    Yael Efron
    Pages 91-111
  8. Clinical Legal Education in Palestine: A Clinical Case under Military Occupation
    Mutaz M. Qafisheh
    Pages 113-135
  9. Clinical Legal Education in Singapore
    Rathna N. Koman, Helena Whalen-Bridge
    Pages 137-158
  10. Clinical Legal Education in Thailand: A Pedagogy Whose Time Has Come
    Panarairat Srichaiyarat, Lisa Radtke Bliss, Withoon Taloodkum
    Pages 159-175
  11. Empowering the Underprivileged: The Social Justice Mission for Clinical Legal Education in India
    Shuvro Prosun Sarker
    Pages 177-193
  12. Legal Clinical Education in Japan: A Work in Progress
    Matthew J. Wilson
    Pages 195-213
  13. Legal Clinics in Turkey
    Julian Lonbay, Musa Toprak
    Pages 215-227
  14. Pathways to Social Transformation through Clinic: Developing a “Social Justice” Culture in Hong Kong
    Luke Marsh, Michael Ramsden
    Pages 229-247
  15. Back Matter
    Pages 249-250
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About this book

Introduction

This book describes the history, present status and possible future models of clinical legal education (CLE) in 12 Asian countries, with particular focus on the Asian character of CLE as it has evolved in different countries.

Keywords

Clinic Legal Education Access to Justice education Japan justice Korean Law law occupation Palestine social justice transformation

Editors and affiliations

  • Shuvro Prosun Sarker
    • 1
    • 2
  1. 1.School of LawKIIT UniversityIndia
  2. 2.Faculty of LawJustus Liebig University GiessenGermany

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137517531
  • Copyright Information The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, New York
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Social Sciences Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-137-51752-4
  • Online ISBN 978-1-137-51753-1
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