The establishment of the Mekong Region College of Law will proceed under the following framework:
The China-Mekong Law Center, with select local partner(s), will continue to implement its training programs, research projects, and academic exchanges with the goal of intergrating the same into what will become the Mekong Region College of Law
All programs will be targeted at law students, lawyers and government officials from the countries of the Mekong Region, namely Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar (once isolation policies are eased), Thailand and Vietnam
The formative programs and ultimate curriculum of the Mekong Region College of Law will be geared only toward the advanced study of law. The Law College will not provide undergraduate degrees in law. Rather, undergraduate legal training (focused on local bar membership requirements) is best done separately at the national level in each Mekong Region country. The goal is therefore to position the Mekong Region College of Law as a provider of graduate degrees in law, with courses focused on more advanced technical subjects not readily available in undergraduate programs
The development of the Law College must be incremental, allowing time for the program to build up its reputation and faculty, and to undergo the rigors of any applicable licensing and accreditation process. During this developmental stage, the Law College will demonstrate its worth as a future degree granting institution.
The cornerstones of this incremental development strategy will be the "Semester Program in American Law" for law students from Asia and the "Semester Program in Asian Law" for students from outside Asia. (See descriptions under the programe page of this website).
Once past its developmetal phase, the Mekong Region College of Law will employ a unique curriculum utilizing a framework of comparative analysis. Since most of the technical areas of law and legislation being introduced in the Mekong Region are largely imports of Western models, courses at the Law College will strive to guide the students understanding of local law using cases and examples from Western countries. (This methodology has previously be utilized by the China-Mekong Law Center in its Comparative Government Procurement Course--page of this website)
As various laws gain application in the Mekong countries, the curriculum focus will shift from reliance on Western examples to greater study of local cases. Accordingly, courses at the Mekong Region College of Law will over time focus more on the comparative law of each of the Mekong Region countries.
Ultimately, the goal is to create a three year graduate program in law (perhaps modeled on the U.S. Juris Doctor degree) geared to law students from the Mekong Region. The languages of instruction will be Chinese and English in recognition that these languages are developing as unifying languages for the region. The location of the Mekong Region College of Law will likely be Yunnan Province, China in recognition of the interest of students from Southeast Asia in gaining experience in the Chinese environment.
The China-Mekong Law Center, with select local partner(s), will continue to implement its training programs, research projects, and academic exchanges with the goal of intergrating the same into what will become the Mekong Region College of Law
All programs will be targeted at law students, lawyers and government officials from the countries of the Mekong Region, namely Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar (once isolation policies are eased), Thailand and Vietnam
The formative programs and ultimate curriculum of the Mekong Region College of Law will be geared only toward the advanced study of law. The Law College will not provide undergraduate degrees in law. Rather, undergraduate legal training (focused on local bar membership requirements) is best done separately at the national level in each Mekong Region country. The goal is therefore to position the Mekong Region College of Law as a provider of graduate degrees in law, with courses focused on more advanced technical subjects not readily available in undergraduate programs
The development of the Law College must be incremental, allowing time for the program to build up its reputation and faculty, and to undergo the rigors of any applicable licensing and accreditation process. During this developmental stage, the Law College will demonstrate its worth as a future degree granting institution.
The cornerstones of this incremental development strategy will be the "Semester Program in American Law" for law students from Asia and the "Semester Program in Asian Law" for students from outside Asia. (See descriptions under the programe page of this website).
Once past its developmetal phase, the Mekong Region College of Law will employ a unique curriculum utilizing a framework of comparative analysis. Since most of the technical areas of law and legislation being introduced in the Mekong Region are largely imports of Western models, courses at the Law College will strive to guide the students understanding of local law using cases and examples from Western countries. (This methodology has previously be utilized by the China-Mekong Law Center in its Comparative Government Procurement Course--page of this website)
As various laws gain application in the Mekong countries, the curriculum focus will shift from reliance on Western examples to greater study of local cases. Accordingly, courses at the Mekong Region College of Law will over time focus more on the comparative law of each of the Mekong Region countries.
Ultimately, the goal is to create a three year graduate program in law (perhaps modeled on the U.S. Juris Doctor degree) geared to law students from the Mekong Region. The languages of instruction will be Chinese and English in recognition that these languages are developing as unifying languages for the region. The location of the Mekong Region College of Law will likely be Yunnan Province, China in recognition of the interest of students from Southeast Asia in gaining experience in the Chinese environment.
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