Author(s)

Min Chen, Feng Tong

Corresponding Author

Feng Tong

Abstract

In the early Republic of China, the legal education demonstrated the situation of overdevelopment. Many Law Schools existed in name only, this situation forced the Ministry of Education of Nanjing National Government to reevaluate the purpose of legal education. In order to fill the vacuum of legal education which was ran by national universities, the National Jinan University established a Law Faculty in 1927 to start the legal education. The early legal education of Jinan University was dominated by Anglo-American Law, later it gradually developed into a combination of legal system which attached importance to Anglo-American Law and Comparative Law. The legal education of Jinan University inherited the goal of “Training Judicature Talent”. After the triumph of the Anti-Japanese War, in 1946, the legal education of Jinan University was reran in Shanghai. With the effort of Zhou Nan, the legal education gradually backed on track. In August 1949, the Law Faculty of Jinan University were merged to Fuh-Tan University, the legal education of Jinan University was interrupted temporarily.

Keywords

National Jinan University; Legal Education; Course Design; Legal talents