Comparative legal education

Pages: 91-94

DOI: 10.4337/9781035302932.ch26

Abstract:

Comparative legal education involves comparing the legal education delivered in one jurisdiction with that delivered in one or more other jurisdictions. Work such as this enables law teachers and researchers to share new insights about legal education. Since law is embedded in the culture of the society in which it operates, many comparativists who study legal education are paying close attention to the cultural context of the phenomena they are dealing with. Their aim is to understand the way of thinking of law students, law teachers and lawyers in a jurisdiction other than their own and thus to shed light both on legal education as it is delivered in their 'home' jurisdiction and in the 'foreign' one they are studying.

Source: Scopus