中国少数民族地区法学教育初探

Abstract

On May 26, 2012, The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China jointly held a working meeting on the Education and Training Program for Outstanding Legal Talents, marking the official launch of the Program for the Education and Training of Outstanding Legal Talents. The level of legal education in China has been greatly improved. In February 2018, the National Standard for the Quality of Undergraduate Teaching in Law in General Higher Education was issued by the Steering Committee of Law Professional Education of the Ministry of Education of China, it is pointed out in a document that it is necessary to train talents with a solid theoretical basis and practical vocational skills of the composite applied innovative talents and reserve forces. In September of the same year, the Ministry of Education and the Central Committee of Political and Legal Affairs jointly issued the Education and Training Program 2.0 on Adhering to The Law of Germany and The Implementation of excellence in the Rule of Law, which is also an important sign for China’s legal education and legal system construction to move forward. Since the development of law education in China, the overall quality of education has been continuously improved, but the advantages and characteristics of law education in minority areas have not been fully apparent. With the deepening of China’s “Belt and Road” construction, the level of opening up to the outside world and the increasing demand for legal talents, how to deal with economic development in university law education, especially how legal education in ethnic minority areas serves the economic development of ethnic minority areas, has become an urgent topic to be studied. Starting with the goal orientation of law education in minority areas of China, this paper analyzes the practical development of law education in ethnic minority areas of China, explores the practical challenges it faces in its development, and makes suggestions for future development, with a view to helping the development of legal education in ethnic minority areas of China.