The Comparative Method Of The Relevance Between Legal Education And Legal Profession

The modernization of legal system in China is an important part of social modernization. Revising law at the end of Qing dynasty draws the prologue of the modernization of legal system in China, which shows that the development of Chinese legal has been out of the tradition, and it is on the way to the modernization of legal system. The 20th century plays an important role in the period of Chinese social transformation. In retrospect, the development of Chinese legal modernization was not only a reforming approach of opening mind and borrowing other law systems, but also an approach to break Chinese traditional rule and get a new life. Now it is realized that Chinese legal modernization suffered confusion and failure, but it always conforms the rule of the development of society.From the reform and opening on, Chinese legal establishment has reached some achievements and the base of legal establishment has settled, but there is still a gap between legal hope and reality. Building a legal country is a complex and systematic social project. Legal education, legal establishment and governing the country according to law are three most important units in this project. They connect closely. Legal education is the head of the three units, and it is also relevant to legal profession. After the reform and opening, the scale of legal education in China expands rapidly. Legal profession becomes one of the most popular professions. However, legal education and legal profession develop in a short time and lack experience, so many problems are exposed. Legal education and legal profession can't keep the same pace, which influences the healthy development of legal education and profession and becomes an emergency to solve.This thesis starts with the emergent problem and focuses on the relevance between legal education and legal profession. It is composed of six parts. The first and second parts propose the problems existing in Chinese law according the current status of legal education and profession, and explain what legal education and profession are and the relation between both of them. The third part analyses the history of Chinese law, then finds the reason why there is a gap between legal education and profession. The fourth and fifth parts study the legal education and profession in four developed countries (USA, UK, Germany, and France) and distinguish the differences from China. According to the research results, legal education and profession are connected closely, no matter which way to go in these countries. However, in China, legal education and profession are separated. The sixth part tries to solving the problem. It proposes that a active interaction between legal education and legal profession should be built, and suggests improving the legal education and legal profession by reforming the education goals, curriculum contents, teaching methods and the National Judicature Examination.