The Cultivation of Legal Profession in the Legal System under Rule of Law

Abstract

The overall goal to modernize national governance will push forward the process of rule of law in the country and the construction of rule of law with socialist characteristics, which has been explicitly raised in the 3^rd and 4^th plenary sessions of 18^th CPC Central Committee. Legislation, law enforcement and the construction of judicial authority are all key elements for rule of law, and so is the improvement of legal profession. The professionalization and normalization of judicial authority and improvement of legal profession admittance is such a comprehensive project that all relative aspects like legal education, legal profession admittance qualification and the structure of legal profession should be taken into consideration. Legal profession cultivation system is the foundation. Legal profession admittance qualification deeply influences the development and trend of legal education and the qualification of judicial authority. It is imperative to construct a virtuous circle among legal education, legal profession examination and the guarantee of legal identity based on bar exam. By applying the research method of Systems Theory, this paper sets the connection among rule by law, legal profession and legal profession cultivation as the starting point, inspects and researches on legal profession cultivation and admittance as well as the guarantee of legal identity, with a view to contributing to improving the judicial authority that meets the need of the construction of a well-being society and rule by law.