Criminal Procedure Law Teaching Supporting Regulations

Author: Compiled by the Legal Education Research Center
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: Political scientist Xiao Gongquan, while discussing the late Qing reforms, raised a question: If there are no suitable individuals like Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, how can their reforms be realized? He also pointed out that every historical reform in China has faced this issue. Xiao's discussion of reform was at the political level. However, his insight holds great relevance for today's "rule of law construction" in China. We cannot deny that the success and sustainability of China's rule of law in the future depend on the participation of countless legal professionals. The more the legal profession grows, matures, and succeeds, the more robust, detailed, and effective the rule of law becomes, like a lush and immortal giant tree rooted in Chinese soil. For the cultivation of future legal professionals, the legal education initiatives being actively promoted today are of "unparalleled importance." Among the various components of legal education, law schools are universally recognized as the most crucial. However, the significance of legal education textbooks may still be underestimated. We, at Legal Publishing House, are currently advancing an initiative—establishing a Legal Education Research Center with renowned legal scholars as consultants and compiling teaching aids for legal education. This may be an even less attention-grabbing part of legal education textbooks. Yet, compiling teaching aids for legal education is precisely an issue that should not be overlooked.
We know that China's law school education is not the American-style vocational training system. In such a system, readers have at least completed their undergraduate studies, and many students have even accumulated years of work experience. In contrast, the mainstream students of Chinese legal education—undergraduates in law schools—are typically young teenagers who enter at the age of 18. Law school education accompanies them through their most valuable four years of knowledge acquisition, but it must also consider their interests. Thus, while law textbooks enrich their minds with systematic theories, teaching aids for legal education support the textbooks by engaging students' interests from various angles—through case studies, regulations, reading materials, or even highly engaging formats. Today's bright young talents will become tomorrow's legal elites. Legal Publishing House, in this process, not only wishes them success but also aims to actively assist them in achieving it.