On The Origin of American Clinical Legal Education And The Enlightenment To Rule of Law of China

The American civil rights movement,the strong growth of sate power,the legal theory progress,law education development and folk fund support are the fundamental factors which promoted the arising of American clinical legal education in 20 centuries 60-70s.It has significant implications for rule of in China to inspect the origin of American clinical legal education:the legal aid function of American clinical legal education enlightens us to realize social justice through Chinese legal clinics;American realism jurisprudence to promote clinical education enlightens that we should have a deep understanding of the tasks of the current Chinese legal research;the emphasis of clinical legal education on legal skills inspires us to pay more attention to the combination of theory and practice of legal education;the emphasis of clinical legal education on living law inspires us that the clinical legal educational linked together men and the governance of country.Though the clinical legal education plays a significant role on the rule of in China.It will be confronted with many problems to realize the clinical legal education: the macroscopic problems are the low clinical legal education status which are restrained by our legal education target and the of agent and defender rules which limit the real clinic functions;the microcosmic problems are the lack of financial resources,the clinic form design and credit evaluation.