“培养拔尖创新人才”背景下的中国法学教育改革三题

Three Topics on the Legal Education Reform in China——A “Fostering Top-grade Innovative Personnel” Approach

根据"培养拔尖创新人才"的要求,对中国法学教育改革中必须解决的三个基本问题进行研究。在对中国法学教育的现状进行考察和对不同的主张进行比较分析之后,明确了我国法学教育的定位,提出了改善我国法学教育同法律职业脱节状况的方法,以及调整现行法学教学模式的几点设想。研究结果表明,中国的法学教育应定位于以培养"职业法律人"为目标的"职业教育";在对我国法学学位结构进行整顿的基础上,应尽快确定以法学硕士或法律硕士学位作为法律职业准入的基本学位,并将其与司法考试衔接起来;在教学模式上,应推广法律诊所教育、增加法律实务课程、减少必修课程、贯彻案例教学方法、改变考核方式、加强法律职业伦理教育、拓宽学生学习其他学科知识的渠道。

This paper probes into three fundamental problems of the legal education reform in China with a ＂fostering top-grade innovative personnel＂ approach. It clarifies the aim of Chinese legal education as educating qualified legal professionals, and brings up a scheme to combine academic with career and introduces practical proposals to legal education reform. It concludes that a JM degree should be the prerequisite for legal profession and further introduces practical proposals to legal education reform, including popularizing clinical education, increasing the proportion of practical courses while decreasing the proportion of obligatory courses, promoting case study, reforming test system, emphasizing legal ethic and broadening the horizontal of students to other academics.