According to the characteristics of the legal profession and the social demand for legal talents, the quality characteristics of legal talents can be summarized as follows: First, generous basic knowledge. A legal person should not only be familiar with the law, but also have extensive cultural knowledge, and should seriously study social sciences and natural sciences such as history, economics and sociology. Second, unique legal thinking ability. The characteristic of legal work is to solve complex social problems by law, which requires legal workers to have unique legal thinking and be able to observe and analyze problems from the perspective of legal persons. Third, skilled legal application ability. Legal workers must have the ability to analyze and solve legal disputes and legal problems by law, including legal interpretation, legal reasoning, legal procedures, evidence application, court debate, legal document making and so on. Fourth, the legal research ability is high. Law is a highly abstract system of rules, while real life is ever-changing and constantly developing. Legal person must weigh the static law and the dynamic reality, and find the connection point between rules and cases. This requires a certain ability to analyze and solve problems. Fifth, noble professional ethics. The legal profession shoulders the heavy responsibility of maintaining social fairness and justice, and the legal person represents the highest legal authority. A sacred profession requires honesty, integrity and justice. Optimizing the Curriculum System 1994, the former State Education Commission formally implemented the plan of "Reform of Teaching Content and Curriculum System Facing 2 1 century". All majors including law education participated in this reform and formulated the curriculum system of law major, including public compulsory courses, professional core courses, elective courses and practical teaching.
It should be said that this curriculum system is suitable for the training of legal professionals. However, in the implementation process of some schools, there are some problems, such as insufficient attention to core courses, arbitrary elective courses (mainly designed for people), and practice courses becoming a mere formality or not being set up at all. The curriculum system of law major mainly consists of the following curriculum groups: first, professional platform courses, including public compulsory courses and liberal arts infiltration courses other than law; The second is the professional core course, which is composed of 14 courses stipulated by the Law Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education. Third, courses in the professional direction, that is, a number of courses set according to the two disciplines of law, are selected by students according to their own interests; Fourth, elective courses, that is, a series of courses offered according to the characteristics, advantages and quality requirements of legal talents in various schools, allowing students to take elective courses; Fifth, practical courses, including court attendance, mock trial drills, teaching practice and other legal practical courses. In the process of law teaching, it is necessary to further integrate and optimize this curriculum system according to the training objectives of legal quality education. Such as broadening platform courses, strengthening core courses, selecting directional courses, carefully selecting courses and attaching importance to practical courses, etc., in order to support the needs of law talents training. There are many problems in the practical ability of law graduates who pay attention to practical ability, and there is a big gap between the trained talents and the actual needs.
It is generally reflected in the society that some law graduates lack practical application ability and do not understand the actual operation mode of legal practice. They simply copy and apply the legal provisions mechanically, but lack a comprehensive analysis of the specific circumstances of the case and the ability to deal with emergencies and difficult and complicated cases. According to the judicial department, it will take at least three or four years for students to adapt to the needs of hearing cases, handling cases and representing various legal affairs after graduation from the legal practice department. Therefore, the current legal education should appropriately increase practical legal courses, such as lawyer's litigation skills, practical commercial law, non-litigation handling, negotiation skills and so on. The teaching content is based on cases in trial practice, focusing on the specific application of laws and regulations, the process of judges' judgment and the problems that need attention in judicial practice, and guiding students to flexibly apply legal theoretical knowledge to judicial practice.
Construct a reasonable practical teaching system for law majors, such as social investigation in the first year, legal consultation and service in the second year, mock trial and professional practice in the third year and professional practice in the fourth year, so as to cultivate students' comprehensive quality and legal practice ability. The training objects of professional ethics law education are mainly judges, prosecutors, lawyers and other professionals. Their duty is to uphold and uphold justice. Therefore, in addition to general or professional education, the content of legal education should also pay special attention to cultivating their moral quality, correct outlook on life, values and world outlook. Accordingly, legal education should adhere to the spirit of "people-oriented", that is, legal education should be linked with humanistic education, especially moral education and belief education. While making students systematically understand and grasp the subject of law, they must also be urged to turn heteronomy of law into moral self-discipline, and then turn self-discipline into sincere and true inner needs, that is, a belief that really goes deep into people's inner world, blends into people's life and becomes a part of people's soul.
In addition to the adjustment of teaching content, the innovation of teachers' teaching methods is particularly important for the cultivation of students' professional ability. In teaching, we should overcome indoctrination, cramming and school-based teaching methods and adopt two-way interaction, heuristic, debate and discussion teaching methods. For example, through case teaching, discussion teaching, question-and-answer teaching and debate teaching, students' comprehensive analysis ability and legal reasoning ability are cultivated; By observing the open trial of cases, help students establish noble legal beliefs and meticulous work concepts; Through mock trial, students' operational ability, logical ability and adaptability are cultivated.