2007 Legal Master's Professional Degree Graduate Entrance National Joint Examination Comprehensive Lecture (Second Edition)

Author: Editorial Committee of National Law Master Professional Degree Entrance Examination Teaching Materials
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: The National Law Master Entrance Examination is a selective examination uniformly implemented by pilot institutions for the National Law Master Professional Degree. The objective of the training program is to cultivate a large number of applied and composite legal talents with both mastery of their own professional knowledge and expertise in legal knowledge, abilities, and qualities. It aims to scientifically regulate the enrollment, training, and process of the National Law Master Professional Degree, further improve China's training structure and degree system for high-level legal talents, and ensure that legal graduate education meets the diverse urgent needs of high-level legal professionals in various fields of China's legal practice, political life, economic life, and social life. Strengthening the assessment of relevant abilities and developmental potential for legal work is a prominent feature and fundamental approach of the examination.
To meet the demand for high-level applied legal talents in China's socialist market economy and rule-of-law governance, the 13th meeting of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee in 1995 approved a report on the establishment of the National Law Master Professional Degree. In June 1999, the Office of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee and the Legal Education Department of the Ministry of Justice forwarded the "Guiding Training Program for National Law Master Graduate Students," revised by the Secretariat of the National Law Master Professional Degree Education Guidance Committee. In 2005, the joint examination of pilot institutions for the enrollment examination of National Law Master Professional Degree (academic education) was implemented.
The education for National Law Master Professional Degree does not admit undergraduate law majors (including those with equivalent qualifications) but only non-law undergraduates with bachelor's degrees from the national education system (or those with equivalent qualifications). The reason for this measure is that the education for National Law Master Professional Degree is an important channel for cultivating high-level applied and composite legal talents, and expanding the training of such talents is a key task of legal graduate education. This reform measure helps maximize the social benefits of legal higher education resources, fully leverage the special educational function and role of the National Law Master Professional Degree, and also facilitates the organizational work of pilot institutions during the training process. For law majors, it is encouraged to apply for postgraduate studies in law. Employees who meet the conditions can apply for the part-time program for the National Law Master Professional Degree.