Article by Koichiro Fujikura
The legal community in Japan is currently in the midst of a debate over how to reform legal education. A major issue of the proposed reform is whether we should adopt an American model law school, i.e., professional education at the graduate level, while essentially doing away with the traditional Japanese method of teaching law at university.
I realize that by broaching this subject, I risk exposing myself to a crossfire of criticism—on one hand, from my European colleagues for abandoning the cherished university teaching of law and, on the other hand, from my American colleagues for the makeshift adoption of pseudo-American law schools. I will assume that risk.
About the Author
Koichiro Fujikura. Professor of Law, Tezukayama University, Nara, Japan.
Citation
75 Tul. L. Rev. 941 (2001)