Legal Education: Current Issues and Challenges
Publication Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
8-2015
Abstract
Legal education has had a short history in Singapore. The first law school in what is today known as the Naional University of Singapore (NUS) had its first cohort of graduates in 1961. NUS maintained a monopoly in local legal education for half a century until the second law school was set up in the Singapore Management University (SMU) in 2007. At the time of writing this chapter, a third law school is in the works, to be established in SIM University (UniSIM), with a view to "developing specialist expertise in family and criminal law" and a focus on "multi-disciplinary and applied learning.
Keywords
Law, Singapore, legal education, universities
Discipline
Higher Education | Law | Legal Education
Publication
The Legal System of Singapore: Institutions, Principles and Practices
Editor
Chan, Gary Kok Yew; Lee, Jack Tsen-Ta
First Page
235
Last Page
275
ISBN
9789814608404
Publisher
LexisNexis
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
TAN, Seow Hon.
Legal Education: Current Issues and Challenges. (2015). The Legal System of Singapore: Institutions, Principles and Practices. 235-275.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1582
Additional URL
http://worldcat.org/isbn/9789814608404