A Study On Lawyering In Chengdu During The Period Of Nanjing National Government

The Chinese lawyering system, as the product of the spreading of the Western studies into the East in modern times, was gradually established in the modernizing process of the Chinese law. In the period of the Republic of China, the Chinese lawyering system was formally set up and gained its rapid development until it came to its maturity and perfection. It also showed some progress in some specific system .In the early years of the Republic of China, lawyering in Chengdu took its initial form and found some development. During the period of the Nanjing National Government, it developed greatly with a dramatic increase in the number of lawyers, a better structure of lawyer staffs, the unified management system, higher qualifications, and more important roles of lawyers in the judicial practice. The achievements made in lawyering in Chengdu benefited much from the legal construction of the Nanjing National Government, the good economic situations and relatively stable political environment in Chengdu. However, development of lawyering in Chengdu also had some limitations due to the many unfavourable factors such as social political atmosphere and insufficient supervision system.This paper mainly discusses the development, supervision and management system of lawyering and the lawyer practice in Chengdu during the Nanjing National Government, and probes into the influence of lawyering in Chengdu upon politics and law as well as its achievements and insufficiencies.