法学教育若干理论与实践问题探析

长期以来法学教育与法律职业分离,阻碍了现代法治国家的进程。本文认为,确立符合社会需求的法学教育理念是法学教育健康发展的前提。法律职业的发展和实际需求是法学教育得以发展的内驱动力,对法律职业有一个明确的分类,有利于法学教育分类型、分层次进行教育,法学教育的根本任务就是依据法律职业的基本要求培养各类法律人才。法学教育与法律职业是辩证统一,相辅相成的关系。

Discussion of Theories of Law Education and of Issues Concerning Their Practice

In China law education and legal profession have been separated from each other for a long time, which is a barrier to the process of ruling the state by law in modern times. This paper argues that it is the prerequisite for the healthy development of education in law to establish ideas and notions of law education which conform to social requirements, that the development of the legal profession and its actual needs and demands constitute the internal driving force of law education, and that a definite classification of the legal profession will promote the development of law education in the light of its types and levels. Besides, the paper maintains that the fundamental task of law education is to train and bring up qualified talents competent for various jobs in law in accordance with the basic needs of the legal profession. The paper concludes that law education and legal profession constitute a dialectical unity, the two being mutually complementory.