Japanese Judicial Reform and Legal Education

Clinical Legal Education and the Reform of the Higher Legal Education System in China

This Article presents an overview of the higher legal education system in China: its structure, purposes, teaching methods, and problems. The Article suggests ways to reform China’s higher legal education system, including clinical legal education, one of the new practical teaching methods that has been used by many law schools in China with promising results. CLINICAL LEGAL EDUCATION AND THE R...

International Conference on Legal Education Reform: Reflections and Perspectives

Legal education is key to the success of every legal system, which, in turn, is the foundation of every society. Legal education should therefore be reviewed on a continuous basis so as to stay consistent with the development of society. However, the current legal education system in Taiwan has been in place for many decades without fundamental change, even though Taiwan has played an active pa...

First Steps to Judicial Reform

The Reform Strategy of Legal Education in China

First, traditional legal education does not encourage creative thinking by students. Traditional Chinese legal education consists of teachers on the platform speaking and students in the audience listening—the “spoon-feeding” method. Teachers are the protagonists; students are passive recipients of legal theory. There are few discussions between teachers and students and examinations are a test...

Legal Personality—Legislative or Judicial Prerogative