June 8, 2001
Panel in Japan Seeks New Model for Legal Education
Japan's Judicial Reform Council has issued a preliminary report calling for American-style law schools to be established in Japan by 2004.
The schools, which would offer two to three years of training, would replace a system in which students get most of their legal training at a single institution in Tokyo after passing the bar examination.
Under the plan, when the first students of the proposed law schools graduated, in 2006, a new bar exam would be phased in over a five-year
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