February 20, 2009
In China, Thinking Like an American Lawyer
Temple U. finds benefits to running a law program in China, and new challenges ahead
In the master-of-law courses he took in a program run jointly here by Temple University and Tsinghua University, Bao Jian studied legal practices he had never faced during his six years as a prosecutor in the Chinese court system.
The American way of justice did not always impress.
Juries seem too easily swayed by the personalities of the lawyers, he says. "That's not good."
But
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