During the 1990s, Japan, Korea, and China all undertook significant reforms of their systems of legal education. These reforms occurred during the high tide of global optimism about legal reform’s ability to catalyze positive social change, and the rise of what might be called an era of “transformative legal education reform.” Impacted by the late 20th-century prestige of American lawyers, each country’s reforms drew on interpretations of American postgraduate legal education and the potential of reforms based on its example to improve economic or political development.
Jedidiah J. Kroncke