论清末法律教育的改革

On the Reform of Legal Education in the Late Qing Dynasty

鸦片战争后,中西文化的冲突与交融,使传统的法律教育也面临着一场新的变革。纵观清末的法律教育改革,可以分为两个阶段:一是走出国门学习西方的法律文化,即法政留学;二是广泛传播近代的法律文化,即国内的法政教育。虽然清末的新式法律教育带有较为明显的功利倾向,法政教育机构也存在诸多弊端,但在吸收近代西方法律文化、普及近代法政知识、推动近代司法改革等方面,都产生了重要的影响,标志着传统法律教育方式向近代的转型。

After the Opium War, under the conflict and fusion between Chinese and western cultures, tradi tional legal education was confronted with a reform. The reform of legal education in the late Qing Dynasty went through two stages： learning from western legal culture, that is, legal politics study abroad, and widely dissemina ting modern legal culture, that is, legal politics education at home. In spite of its obvious utilitarianism and many malpractices in the organs of legal politics education, the newstyle legal education in those days exercised signifi cant influence in absorbing western legal culture, popularizing knowledge of legal politics and promoting the judicial reform in modem times, which signaled the transformation of traditional legal education to a modem style.