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 300+ law schools unified or diverse? What is the path for the development of law schools other than top-tier institutions? How can law programs established in engineering universities, driven by the concept of "governing the country according to law," develop their own unique characteristics within their engineering foundations? These are all questions that must be contemplated and explored. To stand out and secure a place in the fierce competition of China's legal discipline development, the School of Law at China Jiliang University must first cultivate irreplaceable or hard-to-replace characteristics to compensate for its late start and relatively weaker overall strength. To forge such characteristics, the current focus must be on leveraging the unique advantages of the law school's mother body—combining China Jiliang University's status as the only specialized institution within the former State Technical Supervision Administration and the current General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine system, along with its location in Zhejiang, a major economic province—to expand research fields at the intersection of industry-specific knowledge and local knowledge. By identifying emerging, interdisciplinary, blank, or emerging-edge areas in legal research, the school can develop its own strengths, signature achievements, and academic influence.