Quelle formation pour quels juristes ? La question des compétences visées par les nouvelles pratiques de formation juridique au Japon

Abstract

This article adopts a competence-based approach to legal education in order to examine how innovative legal training can be developed in Japan using moot courts, legal clinics and project-based learning frameworks. While in practice few law professors consider the need to target specific professional abilities in their teaching, this paper examines the possibility of creating an overarching competency framework to support contemporary legal education. In contrast to the “laundry lists” sometimes mentioned in the existing literature, such a framework could build on the distinction between two categories of skills seen in the global context, namely “globalised domestic legal skills” (i.e. skills that appear similar to domestic legal skills but work differently in the global context) and “global legal skills” (i.e. skills that are distinctively global).

Keywords

• Innovative Legal Education
• Competence-Based Approach
• Law Schools
• Clinical Legal Education
• Moot Courts
• Legal Reasoning