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标题：The Paradigm Shift of the Legal Education in Malaysia: A Research on the Global Perspectives
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作者：Mohd Fuad Husaini ; Mohd Fuad Husaini ; Kamaliah Salleh 等
期刊名称：Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1877-0428
出版年度：2013
卷号：106
页码：2947-2971
DOI：10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.12.341
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：AbstractThe professional training of law graduates in Malaysia has intersects with multiple avenues into the legal profession requiring variant standards of admittance. This scenario has instigated the need to remonstrate the existing state of affairs. Therefore, there has been a great urge by the Bar Council prompting a Common Bar Course (CBC) an90d Examination (CBE) marshalling a new direction in the training of law graduates for legal practice to become a single entry point into the legal profession for both local and foreign law graduates. However, the path to the implementation of CBE into the legal education is not as attractive as it is thought it would be, referring to the amount of effort needed to progress along the way. It has been an ongoing debate among the law practitioners on whether it should be implemented or vice versa, considering some substantial factors. This article begins with the introduction of the legal education in Malaysia. Secondly, it analyses the current entry requirements into the legal profession and how it fair with the standards across the Commonwealth jurisdictions. Thirdly, it examines the global development of legal education systems, the legal framework of CBC together with the justifications by the proponents and the objections raised against such proposal. Then this article attempts to deliberate on the need of the reformation of the legal education in tandem with the global development of legal education across common jurisdictions. Finally the article concludes on the viability of the CBC proposal or any other proposal to resolve the legal education debacle in Malaysia.
关键词：legal education;entry requirements;malaysia;commonwealth;common bar course (cbc)