Located in Zhijiang Campus with beautiful environment and elegant school buildings, the College is the second Guanghua College established in China after Guanghua School of Management of Peking University. It has been praised as "the most dynamic and developing potential" by domestic academic circles and has a history of 62 years. She is brilliant and full of energy. It is not only the cradle of cultivating senior legal talents to govern the country, but also the forerunner of leading legal education and promoting legal prosperity. It is not only the center to provide theoretical advice for legislation and judicature, but also a platform to gather legal elites at home and abroad. The college is stepping out of the Yangtze River Delta and its influence extends to the whole country.
Adhering to the motto of "seeking morality and knowing the law for the public", the college extensively absorbs and draws lessons from the experience of famous law schools at home and abroad, changes the traditional legal education mode, and innovates practical teaching methods and methods; Not only pay attention to the infiltration of arts and sciences, and strive to expand students' knowledge, but also pay attention to legal academic training and vocational skills drills; Not only impart profound legal knowledge and theory, but also teach students to have the thinking habits and speculative ability of lawyers. The college strives to train first-class lawyers with the quality of "legal professional model and pursuing social justice", not only to train a new generation of outstanding judges, prosecutors and lawyers, but also to train political elites and jurists with extraordinary knowledge and excellent ability.
Construction goal
The college is determined to forge ahead and be brave in innovation. The construction goal is to become a worldwide platform for legal communication in China, a research base for the new reality of the rule of law in China, a research and practice center for legal person ethics and social responsibility, a research and application center for science and technology law, and a model law school for internationalization of legal education and modernization of management mechanism in China.
teacher
The College took the lead in establishing the discipline and academic management system of teaching experts-"Professor Committee", and hired many well-known professors at home and abroad to participate in teaching and management, thus truly establishing the academic style of "expert management". Famous scholars, William P. alford, Liu, Wu, Chen, Ji Weidong and Ni Mingjiang are members of the College Professor Committee.
The college has gathered a group of famous overseas scholars and young talents from famous universities such as Yale University, Kyoto University and Kobe University. In addition, the college has a group of famous scholars in philosophy of law, public law, private law and history, and has formed a broad-based, interdisciplinary and standardized academic model and characteristics. Among the full-time teachers, there are 0/9 professors and 0/6 associate professors, of which about 60% are doctors. Professor Hu Jianmiao and Professor Sun Xiaoxia were awarded the title of "Top Ten Outstanding Young Jurists" in the first and third sessions of China respectively, and there are many outstanding arbitrators in China. It is with these outstanding talents from different prestigious schools, different disciplines and different age groups that the faculty of the college has become a team with reasonable structure and first-class overall quality.
Teaching condition
The teaching conditions of the college are first-class in China. The college is independently built in the Hundred Years River Campus covering an area of 670 mu, with profound historical and cultural heritage. It is the first time in China that the law school has an independent campus. The college is equipped with the most modern facilities, including mock trial, legal clinic, office automation laboratory, forensic identification and criminal investigation laboratory.
There is an antique law book building in the college, and the facilities in the building are based on the library of Harvard University in the United States, integrating digitalization and informatization. At present, the library has 66,000 Chinese and foreign legal books and periodicals, and subscribes to more than 200 domestic and foreign legal publications and electronic publications. In addition to the existing documents and materials in the collection, the college will also invest huge sums of money to purchase the right to use the authoritative legal professional database, and invest sufficient funds to build a law library every year. In the future, all law students can share the resources of famous foreign law schools in classrooms, libraries and dormitories through the Internet. She is the intellectual base of legal education and research and the permanent spiritual home of Guanghua people.
Teaching and scientific research
The academic strength of the college is constantly rising. At present, constitutional law, administrative law and legal theory all have the right to award doctoral degrees, and the strength of civil law and economic law is also emerging. Nine disciplines, including Constitution and Administrative Law, Legal Theory, Legal History, Criminal Law, Civil and Commercial Law, Procedural Law, Economic Law, Environmental and Resource Protection Law and International Law, have the right to award master's degrees.
Guanghua Law School teachers actively undertake dozens of national and provincial research projects, and a large number of outstanding academic achievements are published every year. There are also many teachers involved in the drafting, formulation and policy decision-making of various laws. The college holds many high-level international academic seminars every year, regularly invites excellent legal experts to give lectures, and a large number of well-known legal experts and scholars at home and abroad gather in the law school near Xizi Lake to exchange and discuss the frontier issues of law at home and abroad. The college is permeated with an active, pragmatic, rigorous and innovative academic atmosphere.
University culture
In recent years, the college has formed its own college culture-legal culture. It aims to cultivate legal persons with both legal professionalism and humanistic moral feelings. A well-known professor's semi-monthly "Fa Si Lecture Hall" strengthens the legal thinking of freshmen and sophomores; Famous legal experts at home and abroad are invited to give academic lectures every year, so that students can understand the frontier issues of law and get the latest academic information; The "Legal Culture Month", which has been held for five consecutive years, has become an important platform for promoting legal culture and cultivating law students. Mock trial, one student per year, shows the face of young lawyers pursuing justice and advocating law; Students and young lawyers paired up and held the "Legal Person Super Debater Competition", which exercised students and caused a sensation on campus. The annual "two-long forum" invites the presidents of courts and procuratorates at Zhejiang and municipal levels to participate in the discussion on legal education, research and legal personnel training. Invite the national outstanding judges' deeds report group to spread the deeds of legal persons and arouse students' legal professionalism; Hold voluntary legal consultation for young volunteers, so that students can exercise their legal practice ability while serving the society; Young teachers go to dormitory activities to close the relationship between teachers and students, discuss legal issues and plan life goals.
international communication
Based on the concept of open school, the college is committed to strengthening exchanges and cooperation with international famous schools. In recent years, it has established international academic exchanges and cooperation with law schools such as Harvard University, Yale University, new york University, University of Chicago, Boston University, University of Maryland, Kyoto University, Waseda University, Kobe University, Hokkaido University, National University of Singapore and Nottingham University. Teachers and students are not regularly sent to exchange visits, which provides a good platform for discipline development and personnel training. In recent years, outstanding graduates have been recommended to these universities for further study.
Student training
-Teaching mode
The college enrolls students according to the major categories of law, and the curriculum design pays attention to diversification, interdisciplinary, wide caliber and practical application. In the early stage, I studied humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. In the second academic year, I decided my major according to my hobbies and ambitions and the requirements for preparatory courses. At the same time, I vigorously reformed the undergraduate training program. In addition to the disciplines designated by the Discipline Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, such as jurisprudence, legal history, constitutional law, criminal law, civil law, commercial law, economic law, administrative law, public international law, private international law, international economic law, intellectual property law, environmental resources law, civil procedure law, criminal procedure law, administrative procedure law, etc. A large number of professional elective courses are offered for students to choose freely, which fully embodies the advantages of the credit system. Those students with lofty aspirations and excellent grades can enter the undergraduate and postgraduate training system and receive strict legal professional training.
-Teaching characteristics
The college vigorously reformed teaching methods, initially implemented Socratic teaching methods, and cultivated students' independent thinking ability and skeptical and critical spirit; Pay attention to case teaching, small class discussion teaching and clinic teaching in the later stage to provide students with enough opportunities for communication and ideological collision; Carry out classified classes to supplement teachers' knowledge and teaching methods. Set up the case teaching course "Legal Practice", which has both practical topics and mock court trial training, focusing on 12 teachers with rich lawyer practice experience, with more than 4 mock court trial trainings and comments from senior judges; Through practical courses such as mock trial, we can realize the interactive rotation of simulated roles among students, guide students to think, analyze, discuss and practice creatively from multiple perspectives, train students to solve specific cases and strengthen their legal practice ability.
-Scientific research practice
In recent years, the law school has won the first and second place per capita in the ranking of academic research achievements of undergraduates in the whole school. In 200 1 year, college-level undergraduate scientific research projects were first launched in the whole school. In recent years, the college has invested hundreds of thousands of funds to support the college-level undergraduate research and training program, which has effectively cultivated students' scientific research ability.
Carry out the social practice of "going to the countryside" every summer vacation, and organize many teams to carry out legal publicity, special research and legal consultation activities, which not only serves the society but also exercises students' ability. In the past three years, a total of 843 people participated in summer social practice activities, and 455 people participated in group activities such as winter social practice activities, harmonious social practice service group activities, and student legal aid, with a participation rate of over 98%.
In the future, the college plans to invest one million yuan each year to support students' activities.
Scholarships and grants
In order to motivate students to study hard and reward students with excellent academic performance. The college has established Golden Eagle Scholarship, Sunshine Scholarship, Huang Ganheng Scholarship, He Qilian Scholarship and Guanghua Law School Scholarship. It aims to solve the practical problems of students with financial difficulties in families in various ways. The college promises: "Never let a student drop out of school because of family financial difficulties".
Career prospects
The college has established a training model for outstanding students. A considerable number of outstanding students can be recommended to our college for further study without examination, and some outstanding students can also be recommended to other famous university law schools for postgraduate study without examination. In addition, some graduates enter the law schools of top foreign universities for further study every year.
Law school students have a high level of employment. After graduation, I can serve party and government organs at all levels, people's congresses, CPPCC, foreign affairs departments, courts, procuratorates, law firms, mass media, large and medium-sized enterprises, scientific research institutions, universities and educational institutions, and engage in judicial practice, teaching research and policy planning. In recent years, the one-time employment rate of graduates has reached over 95%.