Blay, Sam; Young, Angus; Li, Grace --- "Adventures in Pedagogy: The Trials and Tribulations of Teaching Common Law in China" [2005] LegEdRev 7; (2005) 15(1&2) Legal Education Review 137

^[*] Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney.

^[**] Part-time Lecturer in Management, Economics, & Tutor in Law, Faculty of Business & Insearch, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney.

^[***] Part-time Lecturer and PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney.

^[1] In December 2004, the US National Intelligence Council likened China’s emergence in the early 21st century to the rise of Germany in the 19th and America in the 20th, with “impacts potentially as dramatic”. US National Intelligence Council, Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council’s 2020 Project – Rising Powers: The Changing Geopolitical Landscape (Pittsburgh: NIC, 2004) http://www.cia.gov/nic/NIC_globaltrend2020_s2.html (accessed 22 November 2005).

^[2] J Wu, China Became A Leading Actor in 3rd Global Economic Tidal Wave, paper presented at the Annul Leadership Meeting for Chinese Corporation, 20 September 2002 (Beijing).

^[3] G Wei & H Zeng, Beijing University’s Long March to the Would Top Tier University (2003) 3 China Higher Education Journal 67.

^[4] It has been suggested by Harman that between 1991 through to 2003 the most far-reaching policy change in Australian tertiary education was the growth in self-earned income by universities, which changed the operation of universities and their relationships with government. Department of Education, Science and Training, National Report on Higher Education in Australia 2001 (Canberra: DEST, 2003) http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/higher_education/publications_resources/summaries_brochures/national_report_on_higher_education_in_australia_2001_splitpdf.htm (accessed 22 November 2005). See also Department of Education, Science and Training, Rationalising Responsibility for Higher Education in Australia: Issues paper (Canberra: DEST, 2005) http://www.dest.gov.au/NR/rdonlyres/C593AB29-F984-4FD4-8CDA-7D6F0965C01C/4046/rationalising_responsibilities.pdf (accessed 22 November 2005).

^[5] J Chan, China: Transition to a Market Economy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998).

^[6] See Editorial, Special Report: China 2004, Globalisation and Localisation: China’s Two-Way Legal System (2004) 2.4 Australasian Legal Business 22.

^[7] Id at 27-8.

^[8] F Wang, Rebuilding a Bridge, paper presented at Association of American Law Schools Conference on Educating Lawyers for Transnational Challenges, 26-29 May 2004, at 1, 5-6.

^[9] Y Cai, Exploring Constructive Approaches for Educating Law Students to Cope with Transnational Challenges: From Chinese Perspective, paper presented at Association of American Law Schools Conference on Educating Lawyers for Transnational Challenges, 26-29 May 2004, at 2.

^[10] F Li, Training Law Students to Meet Transnational Challenges, paper presented at Association of American Law Schools Conference on Educating Lawyers for Transnational Challenges, 26-29 May 2004, at 2.

^[11] Morgan economist warns China: Revolution on Securities market must be careful China Daily 2 April 2001 http://101.stock888.net/010402/100,101,54239,00.shtml (accessed 22 November 2005). (Mandarin only.)

^[12] Z Wu, Note on Chinese Intellectual Property Protection (2003) Beijing University Law Journal 21.

^[13] C Barker & D Galasinski, Cultural Studies and Discourse Analysis: A Dialogue on Language and Identity (London: Sage Publications Ltd, 2001).

^[14] Id.

^[15] This translator holds a Bachelor Degree in English with first class honours from a Chinese University, and had been working for three years at a radio station as an English news reporter.

^[16] F Cownie, Legal Academics: Culture and Identities (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2004).

^[17] J Biggs, Teaching for Quality Learning at University (Buckingham: SRHE and Open University Press, 1999); D Kember & L Gow, A challenge to the anecdotal stereotype of the Asian Student (1991) 16(2) Studies in Higher Education 117.

^[18] D Kember, Misconceptions about the learning approaches, motivation and study practices of Asian students (2000) 40 Higher Education 99.

^[19] D Kember, A Wong & D Leung, Reconsidering the dimensions of approaches to learning (1999) 69 British Journal of Educational Psychology 323.

^[20] See Editorial, Foreign Universities Eye on Chinese Market People’s Daily 20 February 2001.

^[21] Kember, supra note 18, at 111.

^[22] Id at 112.