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1 Sri Lanka J. Int'l & Comp. L. 73 (2015)
Contribution of the Judicial Education Discourse to Judicial Professionalization in Different Jurisdictions

handle is hein.journals/sljicla1 and id is 81 raw text is: (2015) 01 Sri Lanka JICL 73 CONTRIBUTION OF THE JUDICIAL EDUCATION DISCOURSE TO JUDICIAL PROFESSIONALIZATION IN DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS Geeta Oberoi * ABSTRACT The present note explores how the judicial professionalization forms either as an explicit or as an implicit agenda of the judicial education discourse in various jurisdictions, the kind of reforms that are carried out in different jurisdictions to strengthen the judicial professionalization, and how different jurisdictions around the globe are converging and borrowing from each other on objectives, methodology and other areas around the training discourse to produce a distinct and independent class ofjudge professionals. INTRODUCTION The legal practice personnel organized themselves into a profession as late as 19th century by a long struggle which involved an effort to organize themselves as a distinct group, formulate the code for self-governance, develop a new linguistic as the basis for knowledge, develop a legal theory to be grasped in order to get an entry into the group, introducing licensing to control the quality of the group, and establishment of a separate education system to restrict the membership into the group. In contrast, members of the judiciary did not show initially any interest to carve out for itself a separate professional identity. However, of late, there have been developments within different judicial cultures, which suggest a movement * Ph. D Additional Director (Academics), Maharashtra Judicial Academy, Thane, Maharashtra, India. Author may be contacted at geetaoberoi ymail.com

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