Administrative Law and Administrative Procedure Law Practice Questions Collection - Supporting Book for 21st Century Law Series Textbooks

Author: Li Yuanqi
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: Faced with various phenomena in higher legal education, we feel confused and have many concerns: Ten years ago, law was one of the so-called "hot majors," but it has long disappeared from the current list of popular majors. Law was originally a very "professional" major, but many employers feel that law students seem unprofessional when they look for jobs. Many students who have studied law for four years know many legal terms but, when asked how to handle a case, can speak fluently and confidently, full of professional jargon, even mentioning German regulations or some new theories in the United States, but they don’t know how China regulates it or how to solve the case that actually happens in China. Etc. This phenomenon can be called "unprofessionalization of professional education." In 2005, Professor He Weifang announced online that he would stop admitting graduate students, which was a challenge to the current overly emphasized public courses and lack of focus on students' professional interests in postgraduate entrance exams. These phenomena in legal education may be related to the broader educational context. Many liberal arts students spend half their time in university studying foreign languages and the other half playing games. Because final exams in liberal arts are relatively easy, it is not a problem for students to pass smoothly with credits. Many students cram for exams a month or even a week before the test, so some jokingly say that some liberal arts students actually study for only 8 months or even less during their four years of university. While we criticize exam-oriented education and emphasize quality-oriented education, we have neglected professional education. This "unprofessional" phenomenon has caused many legal educators and practitioners to worry and be uneasy. If this continues, it will not only have a negative impact on our law students but, in the extreme, may harm legal education in our country. Therefore, we suggest that law students should still study their majors well and refine this highly specialized major into their own expertise, so that they can use their professionalism to secure survival and respect.
University students doing exercises? Some people, especially some liberal arts students, might ask back with a mocking tone. For science and engineering students, doing exercises and experiments during their studies is very common, but in liberal arts schools and departments, doing exercises seems like an unusual thing, and some students even feel the "fundamental difference" between university and high school. However, we have specifically organized and compiled this "Exercise Collection" for law students, advocating that law students should also conduct synchronous exercises and self-tests during their regular studies. This idea is based on the doubts and concerns mentioned above. We hope that through synchronous exercises, we can help and encourage students to truly master the knowledge of their discipline, familiarize themselves with the current laws of our country, and gain some understanding of cutting-edge academic issues. On a larger scale, we want to make some effort for the "professional education" of legal education. Specifically, this book aims to achieve the following goals:
1. Help students systematically master the knowledge of their discipline. Completing a course is not just about getting credits; to truly grasp the "essentials" of the discipline, at least some foundational work is needed. This "Exercise Collection" includes a "Knowledge Logic Map" section, which details the logical relationships between different knowledge points in a chapter. It also includes various types of self-test questions that highlight key points and provide detailed and insightful answer analyses. This not only broadens students' horizons but also helps them understand the different forms of various types of exam questions and master their problem-solving methods, while also enhancing their adaptability. In addition to the self-test questions for each chapter, the book also includes three sets of mock exams, allowing students to test their learning outcomes after completing the course.
2. Help students pass the National Judicial Examination. After systematically studying law for four years, students should be able to pass the National Judicial Examination with ease. In reality, this is not the case, which indicates that some students' professional studies are superficial. This "Exercise Collection" selects some classic questions from past National Judicial Examination (Lawyer Qualification Examination) papers to help students understand the difficulty, perspective, and format of the exam, enabling targeted study and review.
3. Help students prepare for postgraduate entrance exams. On one hand, it selects some questions from past postgraduate entrance exam papers of top law schools (such as Renmin University of China, Peking University, and China University of Political Science and Law). On the other hand, the book includes a dedicated "Essay and In-depth Thinking Questions" section to broaden students' academic horizons and provide significant help in mastering the methods and techniques for answering essay questions for postgraduate entrance exams.
In summary, our approach is to use a seemingly "exam-oriented" method—synchronous exercises—to achieve the grand but unpretentious goal of strengthening "professional education." This "Exercise Collection" consists of 14 books, corresponding to 14 core law courses, and serves as a supplementary teaching material for the "21st Century Law Series Textbooks." It must be mentioned that since its publication in 2000, the "21st Century Law Series Textbooks" have been widely used by teachers and students of many law schools across the country. Some textbooks, such as Professor Wang Liming's Civil Law, have sold over 300,000 copies, and the average print sales of the 14 core course textbooks are also over 100,000 copies. Behind 100,000 copies are 100,000 or even more readers. The immense love and support from so many readers make us feel a great sense of responsibility. Our only way to repay this is to continuously improve our service! The "21st Century Law Series Textbooks" now have multiple sub-series, including core course textbooks, core course teaching reference books, elective course textbooks, case analysis textbooks, and bilingual textbooks, totaling over 80 types. Now, this "Exercise Collection" has been added. The purpose of all these varieties is the same: to provide more choices for teachers and students who use our textbooks and to meet their diverse needs. We hope that this large-scale "21st Century Law Series Textbooks" can be continuously supplemented and improved, satisfying the teachers and students who use it, and making our country's legal "professional education" the effort it deserves!
This "Exercise Collection" is a supplementary teaching material for the "21st Century Law Series Textbooks," with synchronous exercises arranged according to the chapters of the textbooks to help students truly master the course content and study their professional knowledge well. Each chapter includes question types such as term definitions and concept comparisons, multiple-choice questions, short-answer questions, case analysis questions, and essay and in-depth thinking questions. This "Exercise Collection" also considers the needs of law students for the National Judicial Examination and postgraduate entrance exams. It selects some classic questions from past National Judicial Examination (Lawyer Qualification Examination) papers to help students understand the difficulty, perspective, and format of the exam, enabling targeted study and review. It also selects some questions from past postgraduate entrance exam papers of top law schools and includes a dedicated "Essay and In-depth Thinking Questions" section to broaden students' academic horizons and provide significant help in mastering the methods and techniques for answering essay questions for postgraduate entrance exams. In addition to the self-test questions for each chapter, the book also includes three comprehensive test papers, allowing students to test their learning outcomes after completing the course. Of course, this book can also serve teachers, with a large number of questions available for teachers to select as test content.