Bilingual Higher Education in the Legal Context

Group Rights, State Policies and Globalisation
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-20925-1
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill NV

Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 527 g

Reihe: Brill | Nijhoff

This book is devoted to complex questions of building and developing legal education in more than one language, through two state languages (French and Dutch in Belgium, German and French in Switzerland, English and French in Canada, Finnish and Swedish in Finland) and/or through the medium of minority or lesser used languages (Basque, Galician, Catalan, Welsh, Romanian).

Some states have a long and well-established tradition of bilingual legal education; others have only recently started to develop a legal education system through non-dominant languages; finally, in some other cases only partial bilingual legal education obtains, rather than a fuller model. The volume purports to examine best practices and to draw useful lessons from the experiences of other bilingual societies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arzoz, Xabier

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments;
Introduction:

1. Legal education in bilingual contexts: A conceptual, historical and comparative perspective Xabier Arzoz;
Part I Legal Education in Multilingual States:

2. Bilingualism and legal education in Canada: The classical approach André Bräen;
3. Linguistic Law in Higher Education in Belgium: new trends for bilingual education, but which one? Sophie Weerts;
4. The Swiss paradox: Monolingual higher education in a multicultural environment Nicole Schmitt;
5. Implementing linguistic rights through legal education in Finnish and Swedish in Finland Markku Suksi;
Part II Legal Education through Minority Languages:

6.Basque-medium legal education in the Basque Country Xabier Arzoz;
7. Bilingual higher education in Catalonia Eva Pons;
8. Living on borrowed time: Bilingual law teaching in Galicia, or the urgent need to recover prestige Alba Nogueira;
9. Bilingual legal scholarship in Wales: historical and contemporary perspectives Gwyn Parry;
10. Legal education in Hungarian language in Transylvania: Between a glorious past and an uncertain future Gyula Fabian;
11. Creating, studying and experimenting bilingual law in South Tyrol: Lost in interpretation? Elisabeth Alber and Francesco Palermo;
Part III The emergence of English as a language of legal education:

12. English-medium legal education in continental Europe: Maastricht University’s European Law School – Experiences and challenges Nicole Kornet;
Part IV Conclusions:

13. Bilingual legal education in Europe and Canada Bethan Sarah Davies;
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Arzoz, Xabier
Xabier Arzoz is Senior Lecturer of Administrative and EU Law at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao. He has authored over sixty works on Spanish and European administrative law, linguistic diversity and language rights, fundamental rights, and federalism and autonomy.