The Modern Re-Engineering of East Asian Lawyers

Professor Kroncke, Jedidiah Joseph   (Principal Investigator (PI))

Dr Shin Yoon Jin   (Co-Investigator)

Professor Goto Gen   (Co-Investigator)

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The Modern Re-Engineering of East Asian Lawyers

Access to Justice, Economic Globalization, International Lawyering, Legal Education, Political Development

Law

Humanities & Social Sciences (H)

17609921

General Research Fund (GRF)

2021

On-going

1 To synthesize the current English language scholarship on postgraduate legal education reform in China, Japan and Korea, and augment and reshape these perspectives by cross-referencing native language scholarship that has hereto been overlooked in international evaluations. 2 To use qualitative interview data to map the specific local and international networks by which lawyer and non-lawyer reformers in each country came to form their opinions about postgraduate legal education, its potential as a mechanism for social change, and how reform challenges and the ongoing crisis in American postgraduate legal education have subsequently influenced such opinions. 3 To establish the regional interconnections between Japanese, Korean and Chinese scholars on legal education reform, and promote awareness of parallel regional reforms by organizing the first East Asian conference on postgraduate legal education reform including scholars from countries beyond the region considering such reforms. 4 To contextualize the Korean, Japanese and Chinese reform experiences in larger debates about the role of modern lawyers and legal reform in East Asian countries, and how these experiences potentially inform global debates occurring about the political and economic relevance of lawyer regulation. 5 To strengthen engagement between academic and non-academic audiences concerned with lawyer regulation by integrating relevant regional governmental, bar association, and civil society groups with each other and those working on legal education reform internationally. 6 To produce one chapter, three articles, a book proposal and one edited volume of internationally-leading caliber publicized through presentations at leading conferences and professional associations all of which will collectively provide a comprehensive state-of-the-art assessment of the empirical evidence regarding the impact of postgraduate legal education reform on the East Asian legal professions and various social outcomes as well as a corollary set of best practices for future postgraduate legal reforms efforts.