%0 Journal Article
%T A New Paradigm for Japanese Legal Training and Education (In Light of the Legal Education at Harvard Law School)
%A Yukio Yanagida
%J Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal
%D 2000
%I University of Hawaii
%X From the moment American law students enter their first Contracts class to the day they receive their Juris Doctor degree, their education is specifically geared towards preparing them for a law-oriented career. Japanese law schools, in comparison, are ill-equipped to serve this purpose, and, by their own accounts, provide little more than a general collegiate education. For various reasons, Japanese law schools may not even be classified as professional schools at all. Through a comparison of Harvard Law School's curriculum, student body, faculty and teaching methodology, with that of some of Japan s most well-respected law schools, the author asserts a lack of adequate legal education in Japan, and suggests possible changes to fill the void. Several suggestions are evaluated, with the most promising possibilities at the law school level.
%K legal education
%K japan
%K harvard
%K law school
%K japanese
%K professional school
%K professional education
%K socratic method
%K legal training
%K bar examination
%U http://www.hawaii.edu/aplpj/pdfs/01-yanagida.pdf