On the Reform of the College Legal Education in China

By its very nature,college legal education is a kind of vocational education.So returning back to the very nature of the professional legal education system is the unavoidable issue for the reform of the college legal education in China.Baring the inherent relationship between the vocational education of law and the spirit of humanism,contextualizing the current college legal education reform,it is imperative to adopt a 1-2-1 principle in the future for Chinese college legal education reform.That is to say,on the length of schooling,one year is used for Arts and Humanities study,two years are used for professional courses and another one year for practical legal training.Therefore,it is necessary to adjust the syllabus for the college legal education,to add more courses on Arts and Humanities,to arrange the curriculum scientifically and to set up mandatory programs on practical legal training.