Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
2009
Abstract
This paper examines the impact of legal education and law school on the student's moral development and conception of professional identity, through an empirical study of first year law students of the Class of 2010 at the National University of Singapore. The project aims to increase consciousness of how law school remakes students and develops the moral and professional identity of future lawyers, and to facilitate a dialogue that reshapes legal education to achieve its aims. Given that legal education in Singapore is similar to that in other law schools in common law jurisdictions, the analysis is, with allowances for different socio-political contexts, of wider import.
Keywords
Legal education, Singapore, National University of Singapore
Discipline
Asian Studies | Legal Education
Research Areas
Legal Theory, Ethics and Legal Education
Publication
Legal Ethics
Volume
12
Issue
2
First Page
125
Last Page
170
ISSN
1460-728X
Identifier
10.1080/1460728X.2009.11423930
Publisher
Hart Publishing
Citation
TAN, Seow Hon.
Law School and the Making of the Student into a Lawyer: Transformation of First Year Law Students in the National University of Singapore. (2009). Legal Ethics. 12, (2), 125-170.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/836
Copyright Owner and License
Publisher
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1080/1460728X.2009.11423930