Legal Education in China: The New “Outstanding Legal Personnel Education Scheme” and Its Implications

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenhua Shan
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Competitive Position ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Important Measure ◽  
Education In China

AbstractAfter 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.

Transnational Legal Education in China

2021 ◽  
pp. 1136-1152
Author(s):  
Stephen Minas
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Education In China ◽  
The Belt And Road

This chapter provides an overview of the transnational legal education in the People’s Republic of China. The developments of recent decades are situated within the historical context of the rebuilding of China’s legal system and profession following the Cultural Revolution. The chapter considers the motivations for law schools to transnationalize legal education, including government policy, market demand for transnationally capable lawyers, and competition between universities. Key developments in transnational legal education are identified, as are salient institutional case studies. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the prospects for Chinese transnational legal education to move beyond legal borrowing and reflect an emerging China-centered legal practice, exemplified by the Belt and Road Initiative.

scholarly journals LEGAL EDUCATION IN THE BRICS COUNTRIES IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Vinnichenko ◽  
E. Gladun
Keyword(s):  
Global Education ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Brics Countries ◽  
Education In Brazil ◽  
India And China

Legal education in the contemporary world is changing. The main influences are linked to developments in transportation and communication and the enmeshing of diverse economies embraced by globalization. Law schools confront more mobile and more ambitious students who wish to experience different jurisdictional practices, to serve the increasingly global business community and to be more competitive. This research examines the modifications required in legal education as a result of globalization with specific reference to law schools in the BRICS countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China.Research on higher education, and legal education in particular, has been growing in recent years, yet there is still a gap in the study and comparison of the specifics of legal education within the BRICS countries. This research makes an attempt to analyze and contrast the current goals, objectives, structure and quality of higher legal education in Brazil, Russia, India and China. The specifics of law schools have been studied over the past twenty years in correlation with economic, cultural and education trends in BRICS and globally.Based on research literature, practitioner literature and legislative sources, this paper outlines common and special features of lawyer training in BRICS. The prime similarity of the legal education systems in BRICS are global education trends and the influence of the U.S. and UK education systems. Each BRICS country experienced an “explosion” in the popularity of legal education and, consequently, the urgent need to reform the education process in order to attain better quality and affordability. The result of these reforms, taking place in each country from 1950 to today, has become the growing differentiator of the educational institutions, turning them into “elite” and “mass” law schools.The facets of legal education in Brazil, Russia, India and China are attributed to their national policies as well as the historical development of the educational institutions and their perception of what specific lawyer skills and competencies are demanded by the legal market and national population. We conclude that the structure and quality of legal education as well as the requirements and monitoring tools vary in each country. These are dependent on several factors: the specific country’s ideology, its economic development, its proximity to an “Eastern” or “Western” model, its ability to learn from foreign education systems and its attempts at self-identification in the global educational space.

Problems of Legal Education Reform in Ukraine

2020 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 70-77
Author(s):  
Maria Bilak
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Education System ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
New Model ◽  
Main Ideas

The paper attempts to study the current situation of legal education reform in Ukraine. The main ideas of the new model of legal education in Ukraine were analyzed. The author made a comparison of Ukrainian legal education system with legal educations practices in United States, Poland and Germany. The main problems negatively influencing the quality of legal education such as corruption, disproportionally high number of law schools and outdated approaches to teaching were described.

Legal Education in Russia: Past, Present, Future

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Иван Иванников ◽  
Ivan Ivannikov
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
State Educational

The article actualizes the question of the quality of legal education in modern Russia, its relationship with the security of society and the state. Unlike the Russian Empire and the USSR, the quality of legal education in the Russian Federation is low. Three main problems of poor quality of education were noted: 1) to obtain a unified master's legal education without a basic bachelor's legal education, that is, people who do not have a first level are admitted to the second level of education; 2) a large number of non-core universities and non-state educational institutions that train lawyers in the absence of the required number of qualified teaching staff: 3) paid education in the specialties on which the life and destiny of a person depends, first of all, medicine and jurisprudence. The author also opposes the practice of providing certificates of non-conviction from the bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The prohibition to engage in any activity can be fixed only in the law and only by a court decision.

Mapping Gender Segregation in Pre-Primary and Primary Education in Cyprus

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-219
Author(s):  
Konstantina Rentzou
Keyword(s):  
Primary Education ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Employment Data

Although great emphasis is given on the quality of early childhood education, the demographics of the teaching personnel attract limited attention even though those characteristics are linked to the quality of education. The present study aims at exploring gender segregation in pre-primary and primary education in Cyprus, using the statistical lenses through which feminization can be understood. The article presents the number of male and female undergraduate students enrolled in pre-primary and primary education programs. Employment data are also presented. This article sets out to discuss statistical data and literature to find out which research needs to be undertaken to ensure the inclusion of more men in pre-primary and primary education in Cyprus. Statistics highlight the need to critically examine existing literature, to conduct research with both males and females and to start the process of recruiting and supporting more males moving into pre-primary and primary education.

scholarly journals Comparison of Creativity and Self-Esteem in Students with Employed and Household Mothers

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Maryam Safara ◽  
Zeinab Blori Alkaran ◽  
Mojtaba Salmabadi ◽  
Najmieh Rostami
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
T Test ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Statistical Population ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The University

Objective: The present study was carried out to compare creativity and self-esteem in the university students with employed and household mothers in academic years 2014-2015. Method: This research is a descriptive one which is of comparative-casual type. The statistical population includes all undergraduate students of Azad universities of Roudhen, Shahr-e Ray Central Tehran and national universities of Al-Zahra, Shahid Beheshti and Vali-e Asr that among them 240 students (120 males and 120 females) were selected by random and available sampling method. To collect the data, Arjmand’s (2003) questionnaire of creativity and Copper-Smith’s (1967) self-esteem questionnaire were used. To test the hypotheses, independent t-test was used. Findings: The results showed that there is a significant difference between self-esteem in students with employed and household mothers. Also, a significant difference was not observed between the rate of creativity in students with employed and household mothers. Conclusion: The results of the present research can be used to provide proper strategies for mothers, instructors, and those who are relevant with educational affairs to enhance the quality of education, to nurture and flourish creativity and self-esteem in individuals.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY, QUALITY OF EDUCATION AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN STUDENTS UNDER DISTANT LEARNING DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
Larysa V. Zasiekina
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Functional Difficulties ◽  
Distant Learning ◽  
Health Related

The study aims to examine quality of life aligned with functional difficulties among students under distant and blended learning during COVID-19 pandemic. The particular focus has been given to challenges related to academic integrity and quality of education at Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The approval letter to recruit the participants through Students Union at Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University (LUVNU) was obtained from Ethical Committee at LUVNU. 554 students, females 67,4%, average age 20,93 (SD = 3,29), 74,0 % undergraduate students, 88,4 % students from humanities and social sciences were recruited. Academic Integrity Questionnaire (Schwartz, Tatum, & Hageman, 2013), and, COVID-related functional difficulties and stress associated with exposure to COVID-19 (Schiff, Zasiekina, Pat-Horenczyk, & Benbenishty, 2020) have been used. The study applied the cross sectional, between subjects design utilizing the independent variables of health-related difficulties, learning-related difficulties and loneliness-related difficulties aligned with forced social isolation during pandemic, and fear to be infected for multiple regression analysis. The results in this study indicate that that the main students’ concern is associated with health-related difficulties. The only one independent significant predictor of students’ fear to be infected is health-related difficulties, although all dependent variables taken together (health-related difficulties, learning-related difficulties and loneliness-related difficulties) are robust predictors of students’ fear to be infected. The most acceptable situations for students in terms of dishonest behaviour are situations of collaborating on lab report when instructed not to; submitting same paper for two classes; purchasing and downloading a paper from online sources. The next study, therefore, moves on to discuss the main instruments for developing academic integrity and quality of education under distant and blended learning at HEis.

scholarly journals 2002: A Justice Odyssey

2003 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Kim Economides
Keyword(s):  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Legal Ethics

Professor Economides, 2002 Chapman Tripp visiting fellow, overviews research on the supply side of the access to justice equation. Economides argues that the justice equation is based on the nature of supply and demand for legal services and the nature of the claim that clients wish to bring to a legal forum. However, the access to justice theme is moved beyond the supply side and into questions regarding the quality of the access provided suggesting that there is a need to explore the understandings of justice held by members of the legal profession and legal ethics, and the role that law schools and legal education have in formulating these.

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