Are there any law majors in American universities?

In the United States, you can only study law as a graduate student, because there is too little practical undergraduate knowledge in the United States to learn law thoroughly. According to relevant reports, China will also implement postgraduate law in a few years, that is, only those who have obtained a bachelor's degree can apply for law majors.

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Foreign legal education

There are two main types of high-level legal talents in western developed countries: applied and academic.

Applied legal talents mainly refer to lawyers, judges, prosecutors, notaries, legal advisers of commercial and administrative departments, etc. Academic legal talents mainly refer to university professors.

One of the most prominent features of American legal education is that primary legal education is located in postgraduate education after undergraduate education, and legal education is aimed at future careers. This training mode must require students to acquire the necessary humanities knowledge before studying law, so students who apply for law school usually have obtained Bachlor Arts or Bachlor Science and must pass the last exam of law school.

Master of Laws Education in China

The training goal of LLM is advanced applied talents, that is, jurists. With the development of market economy and the influence of China's entry into WTO, there will be an increasing shortage of high-level legal talents in China.

On the one hand, the traditional undergraduate education of law is positioned as generalist education rather than junior college education, and from the perspective of age and social experience, the depth of undergraduate graduates is obviously not enough to meet the social demand for high-level legal talents;

On the other hand, the traditional education of law postgraduates focuses on academic qualifications rather than vocational education. The training mode of law postgraduates is tutorial system, which objectively can't be too large, so law postgraduates can't meet the needs of society for a large number of high-level legal talents, and there are also shortcomings in practical ability.

Therefore, the task of cultivating a large number of high-level applied legal talents is on the head of the professional degree education of master of laws.

In the aspect of training master of laws, we can boldly reform the tutor system of master of laws, and appropriately absorb lawyers, prosecutors, judges and legal practitioners with rich legal practice experience and deep academic attainments to undertake the task of training the practical ability of master of laws. Traditional LLM tutors can be called jurists, and lawyers, prosecutors and judges can be called jurists. The tutor for training master of law should be composed of jurists and legalists. Jurists are responsible for training students' knowledge base, while legalists can train students' practical ability. The two should coordinate with each other and work together to train a master of law.

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As a kind of post-undergraduate education, JM education not only helps to improve the level of legal talents, but also makes up for the defects of the current "book-based" legal education model. Post-undergraduate education means increasing the age and experience of students studying law, so that learners can better understand law as a kind of practice and social knowledge, thus improving the effect of legal education.

At the same time, post-undergraduate legal education means that undergraduate graduates from multiple backgrounds enter the law school classroom, which means the blending of different knowledge. Experience tells us that after people with undergraduate degrees in other disciplines enter law school, their past knowledge background is not an obstacle to their understanding of legal issues, but often a driving force. Interdisciplinary knowledge and methods can help them think more deeply about legal issues.