Clinical Legal Education in Asia: Accessing Justice for the Underprivileged

255 Pages·2015·2.792 MB·English

by  Shuvro Prosun Sarker (eds.)

Clinical Legal Education in Asia

Clinical Legal Education in Asia
Accessing Justice for the Underprivileged
Edited by
Shuvro Prosun Sarker
clinical legal education in asia
Copyright © Shuvro Prosun Sarker, 2015.
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-51752-4
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Clinical legal education in Asia : accessing justice for the underprivileged / by Shuvro
Prosun Sarker, B.A. LL.B (Calcutta), LL.M (NUJS) Assistant Professor, School of Law,
KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Law—Study and teaching (Clinical education)—Asia. I. Sarker, Shuvro Prosun, editor.
KNC47.5.C55C58 2015
340.071'15—dc23
2014047883
A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library.
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First edition: September 2015
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
To the two teachers who have inspired my life and education . . .
Professor N. R. Madhava Menon
and
Professor Mahendra Pal Singh

Contents
List of Tables and Figures ix
Preface xi
List of Contributors xiii
1 Introduction: Clinical Legal Education and Its Asian
Characteristics 1
Bruce Avery Lasky and Shuvro Prosun Sarker
2 Better Lawyers, Better Justice: Introducing Clinical Legal
Education in the Maldives 17
Marium Jabyn and Rogena Sterling
3 Chinese Clinical Legal Education: Globalizing and Localizing 37
Cecily E. Baskir, Ma Liqun, and Li Ao
4 Clinical Education in South Korean Law Schools:
Challenges and Hopes 53
Helen Haekyong Kang and Kyung Sin Park
5 Clinical Education in Taiwanese Law Schools 75
Thomas Chih-hsiung Chen
6 Clinical Legal Education in Israel 91
Yael Efron
7 Clinical Legal Education in Palestine: A Clinical Case under
Military Occupation 113
Mutaz M. Qafisheh
8 Clinical Legal Education in Singapore 137
Rathna N. Koman and Helena Whalen-Bridge
9 Clinical Legal Education in Thailand: A Pedagogy Whose
Time Has Come 159
Panarairat Srichaiyarat, Lisa Radtke Bliss, and Withoon Taloodkum
viii ● Contents
10 Empowering the Underprivileged: The Social Justice Mission
for Clinical Legal Education in India 177
Shuvro Prosun Sarker
11 Legal Clinical Education in Japan: A Work in Progress 195
Matthew J. Wilson
12 Legal Clinics in Turkey 215
Julian Lonbay and Musa Toprak
13 Pathways to Social Transformation through Clinic: Developing a
“Social Justice” Culture in Hong Kong 229
Luke Marsh and Michael Ramsden
Index 249
List of Tables and Figures
Tables
12.1 Survey results from the Anadolu legal clinic 220
12.2 Survey results from the Children’s Rights in Practice
street law course 221
Figures
8.1 Why do you choose to volunteer at the legal clinics? 147
8.2 Volunteer take-aways from the clinics. 148
8.3 Effectiveness of SMU legal clinics in developing below-mentioned
skills and interests. 149
8.4 What have you gained from the clinics as a volunteer? 150
8.5 How would you describe your experience consulting with
lawyers on duty about the client work you handled? 151
8.6 Whether experience at the clinics inspired you to take or
maintain an interest in volunteer legal work? 153