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Anglo-American conceptions of professional responsibility and the reform of Japanese legal education: creating a virtuous circle?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Economides, Kim |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | IN THIS article I describe how ethics and the professional responsibilities of lawyers have become increasingly prominent in debates on the future of mainstream legal education in Anglo-American and other common law jurisdictions. How are these debates in the West impacting on the current reform of Japanese legal education and, vice versa, could these reforms influence developments here? My observations build on those made during a previous visit to Japan when I delivered a lecture on ethical legal education.1 Now, a decade on, I am encouraged to see that real progress is being made with widening participation and the implementation of liberalising reforms designed not only to introduce an ethical perspective into the training of modern Japanese lawyers but that other educational models, including clinical legal education and developments in simulation-based learning, are also under active consideration by Japanese reformers.2 Yet it is with some irony that virtual learning environments (VLEs) recently developed in the UK, but modeled on Japanese computer games technology, are being re-cycled and exported back to Japan along with ethical perspectives that are such an ingrained part of traditional Japanese legal consciousness (ho-ishiki)3 and social responsibility. If Japanese reformers feel they may have something to learn from foreign adaptations of their indigenous homegrown practices might it also be true that reformers here could learn from latest Japanese developments, thus creating a virtuous circle? I review these converging trends that confirm my belief that ethical perspectives very soon will become, if indeed they have not done so already, part of a global “new core” centered on legal ethics that lies at the heart of modern legal education and practice. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1080/03069400.2007.9959736 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10036/65074/KE%20article%20.pdf;jsessionid=233F7A94D94788BD460FD32BDDBFACC0?sequence=2 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2007.9959736 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
