The Role of Practice in Legal Education: National Report for Taiwan

Abstract

We analyze a firm's job-assignment and worker-monitoring decisions when workers face occasional crises. Firms prefer to assign good workers to a difficult task and to not employ bad workers. Firms This article aims at evaluating the role of practice in legal education in Taiwan. Part I provides the general structure of legal education by examining some of the key elements. It also comprises of a detailed description of the bar examination and pre-service training. Part II focuses on practice elements within the law school curriculum, especially the judicial court externship course. Part III concludes with a call that law schools in Taiwan should take a greater role in offering practice-related courses or course components as a formal part of legal education.