Legal and Trade Barriers (Volume 2)

Author: Wang Yanlin
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: Law is an ancient discipline. However, China's legal education is relatively young. The numerous controversies surrounding the goals of legal education reform and the evident surplus of law graduates have forced people to ask: Is the educational model of the current more than 300 law schools unified or diverse? What is the path for the development of other law schools beyond the top-tier institutions? How can engineering universities, which have established law programs under the influence of the "Rule of Law" initiative, develop their own unique characteristics within their engineering framework? All these are issues that must be contemplated and explored. To stand out and secure a place in the fierce competition of legal discipline development in China, the School of Law at China Jiliang University must first cultivate irreplaceable or hard-to-replace characteristics to compensate for its relatively late start and weaker overall strength. To forge such characteristics, the current focus must be on the unique advantages of the law school itself, namely, combining the distinctive background of China Jiliang University as the only specialized institution within the former State Bureau of Technical Supervision and now the National Administration for Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine system, with its location in Zhejiang, a major economic province. This approach involves expanding research fields in both industry-specific knowledge and local knowledge, and cultivating its own strengths in emerging, interdisciplinary,, or nascent areas of legal research, thereby achieving distinctive research directions, landmark achievements, and academic influence.