On The Formation Of Legal Professionalization At The End Of Qing Dynasty And The Beginning Of The Republic Of China

The legal professionalism in modern China began in the late qing dynasty and the early Republic of China.Due to the lack of power groups that could check and balance the autocratic imperial power,there was no deep soil for legal professionalism in China before the end of the Qing dynasty.The process of modern legal professionalism began in the late Qing dynasty and the early Republic of China.First,the introduction of foreign legal culture in the late qing dynasty and the early Republic of China first exposed Chinese people systematically to the concept of modern rule of law.The spread of legal culture and the concept of rule of law in the late qing dynasty and the early Republic of China brought theoretical soil for the professionalization of law and gave birth to the beginning of the professionalization process.Second,the crisis brought by the loss of judicial sovereignty after the opium war prompted the government of the late Qing dynasty and the early Republic of China to promote judicial reform.Under the new legal system,legal profession was recognized for the first time as an independent professional class.The talent gap brought by the system reform further promoted the development of legal professionalism.Third,the rise of legal education in the late Qing dynasty and the early Republic of China swept away the defects of the lack of legal vocational education under the old imperial examination system,and the common educational background produced a group of legal talents with the common concept of rule of law,professional knowledge,way of thinking and professional ethics.Further promoting the process of legal professionalism.