The Conflicts Between Law School Education and Judicial Profession in China: Predicament and Outlet

By exploring the the diversity information between data from China's National Bureau of Statistics, this Article finds that the scale and quantity of law school education in China are increasing at all times. This education focus on quantity, which makes someone shocking and raises our serious concerns. Gradually, many people suppose this law school education that only focus on scale and quantity would be a kind of bubble which are inevitably waiting for burst. In relation to judicial profession, this Article indicates that one who intends to be a judge should pass the National Judicial Examination, and then pass the Civil Service Examination, and in addition, he/she should serve as a Court Clerk for a period of time. According to that, it is hard to become a judge in a hurry. There are two contribution in this Article. First, this Article points out that there are two conflicts between law school education and judicial profession in China, which need to repair as quickly as possible: (1) a conflict between the comprehensiveness of law school education and the professionalism of judicial profession; (2) a conflict between the intellectualism of law school education and the practicalness of judicial profession. Second, this Article explores the solution resolving the conflicts.