Master of Law: Law (Academic) is a first-class discipline under the law category of academic master students, with the professional code of 030 100. Candidates applying for the Master of Laws must have a bachelor's degree in the National Education Sequence University, which is not limited to undergraduate majors (but most of the actual candidates are law undergraduates), and non-undergraduate students with the same degree are not recruited. Master of law: Master of law is a category of professional master students, including legal professional degree (illegal science) and legal professional degree (law). Professional codes are: 035 10 1 and 035 102 respectively. To apply for a master's degree in law, you must have a bachelor's degree in national education (or equivalent), and undergraduate graduates with equivalent academic qualifications must work for more than two years; University graduates with equivalent education must work for more than three years. (Since 2009, law graduates have been allowed to apply for the Master of Laws. ) The simple summary is:
LLM
There are no special requirements for the majors studied in this college.
Master of Laws (Illegal Studies)
The undergraduate major is required to be a non-law major.
Master of Laws (Law)
The undergraduate major is required to be a law major.
Different academic systems and tuition fees
The general learning cycle of LLM is 3-4 years, and 3 years is more common.
Master of laws is divided into two situations:
Master of Laws (Illegal Studies) usually lasts for 3 years.
Master of Laws (Law) usually has three study periods: 2 years, 2.5 years and 3 years.
Different propositional ways
Master of Law is a national university that is qualified to recruit graduates of Master of Law, and each university has its own proposition (except public courses).
The Master of Laws has passed the joint entrance examination of the national pilot unit of Master of Laws. Only some key universities in China have LLM enrollment rights, and the examination questions are unified by the state.
Different training centers of gravity
Master of Laws mainly trains academic talents with certain legal affairs skills and applied talents with high theoretical literacy. Master of Laws (Illegal Studies) emphasizes the cultivation of compound talents, so that students have both legal knowledge and other professional backgrounds. Master of Laws (Law) emphasizes the cultivation of applied talents, that is, students should learn legal knowledge at both undergraduate and postgraduate stages, but the postgraduate stage emphasizes application more.
The tutor's situation
The master of law adopts the tutorial system, and each student will be assigned a tutor (professor or associate professor) when he first enters the school. During the study period, he can get constant guidance from the tutor, focusing on theoretical teaching and supplemented by practical teaching. The latter has much less time than the Master of Laws. Most LLM are not professional and adopt "double tutorial system" or teaching and research group teaching system. Based on the principle of practical application, practice is the first, and the teaching concept of theoretical study and practical operation is implemented. However, in recent years, some colleges and universities have also begun to make changes in the teaching and training methods of master of laws. Some colleges and universities have begun to train assistant tutors in the first year of graduate students. The main lecturer is the teacher in the school, and the tutor outside the school only guides the practical course in the second year. There are also some colleges and universities that have trained masters of laws in different directions, usually starting from the second year of graduate students.
Convergence of employment trends
Although there are differences between LLM and LLM in training objectives (the former focuses on training academic and research-oriented legal talents, while the latter focuses on training comprehensive and applied legal talents), the whereabouts of the two types of graduates in actual employment are basically the same. A small-scale statistical comparison of employment destinations shows that LLM and LLM's employment destinations are national and local administrative organs, public security law, law firms, universities and scientific research units, institutions, companies (large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises, foreign-funded enterprises and other companies), doctoral students and so on. The weak difference between the two is that the Master of Laws has more advantages in entering state organs and companies, while the Master of Laws has more advantages in entering law firms and pursuing doctoral degrees, but their employment destinations are almost the same, and there is no essential difference.