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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Legal Education in China: The New “Outstanding Legal Personnel Education Scheme” and Its Implications
Contributor:
Shan, Wenhua
imprint:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2013
Published in:Legal Information Management
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/s1472669613000066
ISSN:
1472-6696;
1741-2021
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>After more than 60 years of development, the People's Republic of China has established the world's largest size of legal education, with 624 law schools and 450,000 thousands of undergraduate students currently enrolled. As Wenhua Shan explains, whilst the quality of education has also been improved, it generally falls short of meeting the domestic and international challenges that China is facing in legal education and practice. The most important measure recently adopted by the Chinese Government to enhance the quality of legal education, the “Outstanding Legal Personnel Education Scheme”, is poised to bring significant changes to the structure, contents and methods of Chinese legal education; and it will boost deeper cooperation between law schools and the practice sectors. Further measures are nevertheless required to achieve the desired results of the scheme and to place Chinese legal education in an internationally competitive position.</jats:p>