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Abstract
For the past four years, two instructors and approximately one hundred students have participated in a novel experiment in liberal arts legal education. Legal Inquiry, an upper-year course in the Arts & Science Program at McMaster University, seeks to "demystify legal knowledge for the curious student of the world." It brings together two kindred yet previously isolated academic traditions: an open-ended inquiry approach to knowledge and a critical pluralist understanding of law.
To explore the compatibility of "law" and "inquiry," the instructors wanted students to gain confidence and skills in engaging with formal legal sources, apply critical thinking to law, and appreciate informal and everyday law. These objectives were met with surprising success given the brevity of the course. Students achieved a basic understanding of formal law and legal reasoning, generated a vocabulary of what it means to think critically about law, and began to identify the continuity of formal and informal law.

Cover -- AMERICAN LEGAL EDUCATION ABROAD -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- PART 1: FOUNDATION STORIES -- 1. The Proliferation and Transformation of Harvard's Case Method in the United States, 1870s-1990s -- 2. How America Did (and Didn't) Influence English Legal Education, circa 1870-1965 -- PART 2: AMERICANIZATION-CRITICAL HISTORIES -- 3. American Influences, Canadian Realities: How "American" Is Canadian Legal Education? -- 4. Functionalism, Legal Process, and the Transformation (and Subordination) of Australian Law Schools -- 5. Conservatives, Nationalists, and American Romantics Debating Legal Education in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana -- 6. Transplantation and Domestication of American Models of Legal Education in Nigeria -- 7. Model, System, or Node? Understanding Legal Education Reform in Twentieth-century China and Beyond -- 8. Transplants in Estonian Legal Education: Influences from the US Legal System -- 9. "The Turn to the West": American Legal Education and Educational Reforms in the Swedish Welfare State, 1950-2000 -- 10. The American Case Method and New Japanese Legal Education -- 11. Legal Education in France Turns Its Attention to the Harvard Model -- 12. American Moment(s): When, How, and Why Did Israeli Law Faculties Come to Resemble Elite US Law Schools? -- 13. Catalytic Agents? Lon Fuller, James Milner, and the Lawyer as Social Architect, 1950-1969 -- 14. Legal Teaching and the Reconceptualizing of the State: Global Law and New Legal Education Loci -- 15. Socratic Method, Philippine-style: To Unhave or Uphold? -- PART 3: US PERSPECTIVES -- 16. Rethinking Assumptions about the Global Influence of US Legal Education -- 17. The Harvard Models in Their Native Habitat and Abroad: Reflections -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Foundation Stories -- 1. The Proliferation and Transformation of Harvard's Case Method in the United States, 1870s– 1990s -- 2. How America Did (and Didn't) Influence English Legal Education, circa 1870– 1965 -- Part 2: Americanization— Critical Histories -- 3. American Influences, Canadian Realities -- 4. Functionalism, Legal Process, and the Transformation (and Subordination) of Australian Law Schools -- 5. Conservatives, Nationalists, and American Romantics Debating Legal Education in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana -- 6. Transplantation and Domestication of American Models of Legal Education in Nigeria -- 7. Model, System, or Node? -- 8. Transplants in Estonian Legal Education -- 9. "The Turn to the West" -- 10. The American Case Method and New Japanese Legal Education -- 11. Legal Education in France Turns Its Attention to the Harvard Model -- 12. American Moment(s) -- 13. Catalytic Agents? -- 14. Legal Teaching and the Reconceptualizing of the State -- 15. Socratic Method, Philippine- style -- Part 3: US Perspectives -- 16. Rethinking Assumptions about the Global Influence of US Legal Education -- 17. The Harvard Models in Their Native Habitat and Abroad -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Index