Chinese Modernization and the Development of Legal Education

Abstract

The Communist Party of China has attached great importance to legal education, made arduous explorations in the practice of advancing the Chinese revolution, development, and reform, and blazed a road of modernization and development of Chinese legal education. The socialist legal education system with Chinese characteristics develops on the basis of completely negating and profoundly criticizing the old legal education system, and establishing a new legal education system guided by the Marxist view of state and law; it is created and develops on the basis of learning from the Soviet Union model, in combination with China's specific conditions and independent exploration; and it is constantly improved and develops under the new historical conditions of reform and opening up and socialist modernization drive, and on the basis of meeting the needs of perfecting socialist democracy and strengthening socialist legal systems, and profoundly summarizing the positive and negative experience of socialist legal construction in China. The legal education with Chinese characteristics in the new era is guided by XI Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, based on the integration of the original aspirations and the views from the outside, through continuous innovation and development in implementing new ideas and establishing new patterns, offers a powerful talent guarantee and a theoretical support to promote the development of the rule of law in China, provides a strong impetus to transform a country rich in legal education resources into a country strong in legal education, and lays a solid foundation of the rule of law for promoting the development of a human community with a shared future and the creation of a new form of human advancement.

Keywords

new era / legal education / Chinese characteristics / Chinese modernization

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