ABA ROLI Continues to Support Vietnam’s National Bar Association

On December 4–5, 2008, ABA Rule of Law Initiative’s (ABA ROLI's) Vietnam Country Director Allison Moore presented at a conference entitled, "Legal Development in East Asia: China-Vietnam Compared." The event was co-sponsored by the University of Hong Kong and Monash University. Participants included scholars, lawyers and development professionals. Read more »

 

Vietnamese Bar Leaders Gain Insights During Chinese Study Tour

With their eyes on the future of the legal profession in their own country, a Vietnamese study group spent a week in China visiting national and local bar associations, justice authorities, law firms, legal aid centers and courts. The ABA Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) worked with the All China Lawyers Association (ACLA) to arrange the September study tour in anticipation of the 2009 inauguration of Vietnam’s first national bar association. Read more »

Program activities under development include: training of trainers workshops in teaching legal reasoning skills; support for clinical legal education and law school public outreach; capacity building support for national and local bar associations; lawyer skills and substantive law training workshops and a bar and legal education exchange program.

In 2007, the ABA Rule of Law Initiative’s (ABA ROLI’s) Asia Division was awarded funding from the U.S. Department of State to implement a program to advance the rule of law in Vietnam. Under this program, the Asia Division will work in partnership with Vietnamese government institutions, law schools and lawyers associations on programs to improve legal education and training pedagogy, and to support institutional development of the legal profession. In 2008, ABA ROLI received funding from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Exchanges and Cultural Affairs to implement a two-way exchange program to support mutual understanding and exchange of expertise between bar associations and legal educators.