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- Title
Making Lawyers (and Gangsters) in Japan.
- Authors
West, Mark D.
- Abstract
The article presents a comparative study of legal education in Japan. It discusses the old system of training Japanese lawyers and some of the forces that led to the breakdown of that system. It then details and analyzes the new system, much of which was borrowed from the U.S. after careful investigation. The shift to the American structure for law schools has been accompanied by an increased interest in American pedagogic techniques. The change in Japanese legal education was propelled by the perceived need to increase the number of people who pass the bar examination and become practicing lawyers. Moreover, it offers a few words about Japanese gangsters, the yakuza, because the story suggests similarities between lawyers and their illegal counterparts.
- Subjects
JAPAN; UNITED States; LEGAL education; LAW school curriculum; JUSTICE administration; BAR examinations; ADMISSION to the bar (Law); YAKUZA; ORGANIZED crime; LAWYERS
- Publication
Vanderbilt Law Review, 2007, Vol 60, Issue 2, p439
- ISSN
0042-2533
- Publication type
Article