Law

1. Program Description

The Law undergraduate program aims to cultivate “professional leaders” by preparing students to be competent, productive and innovative in social governance, legal practice and academic research. Successful graduates are expected to have solid academic foundation, modern law sprit, international vision and lofty legal ethics, master domestic legal system and are familiar with basic theories and rules in international law, be good at legal thinking, expression and writing, and master at least a foreign language.

2. Program Duration and Credit

This is a four-year undergraduate program, which can be completed within a minimum of three years and a maximum of seven years.

A total of 150 credits are required upon the completion of the program.

3. Curriculum

Four modules of courses are offered for the program: General Education Curriculum with 48 credits, Basic Curriculum with 31 credits, Essential Curriculum with 41 credits, and Elective Curriculum with 30 credits.

The Elective Curriculum in the list includes extended disciplinary courses offered by the School into which an individual student is admitted. Students can choose among those extended courses according to their personal interests and career plans; however, credits should be approved by the School.

（1）Basic Curriculum

Course Code	Course	Credit	Semester	Remark
100301172001	The Introduction of Law	2	1
100301172002	Constitutional law*	3	1
100301172003	History of Chinese Law*	3	3
100301172004	Jurisprudence*	3	4
100301172005	Administrative Law*	3	2
100301172006	Civil Law*	3	1
100301172007	Property Law*	2	2	including legal practice 0.5 credit
100301172008	Civil Procedure Law*	3	3	including legal practice 0.5 credit
100301172009	Criminal Procedure Law*	3	4	including legal practice 0.5 credit
100301172010	General Provisions of Criminal Law*	3	1
100301172011	Specific Provisions of Criminal Law*	3	2	including legal practice 0.5 credit

（2）Essential Curriculum

Course Code	Course	Credit	Semester	Remark
100301173001	Law Of Torts*	2	4	including legal practice 0.5 credit
100301173002	Law of Creditor’s Rights*	3	3	including legal practice 0.5 credit
100301173003	International Law*	3	3
100301173004	International Economic Law*	3	6
100301173005	Administrative Procedural Law*	3	5	including legal practice 0.5 credit
100301173006	Logistics and Supply Chain Management	2	6	including legal practice 0.5 credit
100301173007	International Private Law*	3	5
100301173008	Economic Law*	3	4
100301173009	Commercial Law*	3	5
100301173010	Intellectual Property Law*	3	5	including legal practice 0.5 credit
100301173011	Labor and Social Security Law*	3	6	including legal practice 0.5 credit
100301173012	Environmental and Resource Protection Law*	2	6
100301173013	Graduation Practice	4	7	legal-practice course
100301173014	Graduation Thesis	4	8	legal-practice course

（3）Elective Curriculum

Course Code	Course	Credit	Semester	Remark
100301174001	Comparative Law: Theory and Practice	2	2	including legal practice 1 credit
100301174002	Legal Logic	2	2
100301174003	Legal Writing	2	3
100301174004	Law and Literature	2	3
100301174005	Legal Philosophy and Legal Method	2	2
100301174006	How to Write Better Law Essays	2	2
100301174007	Selected Legal Classics	2	2
100301174008	Science of Legislation	2	5
100301174009	The Research of Judicial Archives of Republic of China	2	7
100301174010	History of Foreign Legal System	2	4
100301174011	The history of western legal thoughts	2	4
100301174012	An Introduction to Chinese Law	2	1
100301174013	History of Chinese Legal Thoughts	2	4
100301174014	Comparison between Chinese and Western Legal Culture	2	4
100301174015	Western Law Culture in Literature and the Arts	2	3
100301174016	Chinese Legal Culture in Literature and the Arts	2	2
100301174017	Antitrust	2	7
100301174018	Law and Economics	2	4
100301174019	Financial Law	2	6
100301174020	Market Regulation Law	2	8
100301174021	Real Estate Law	2	4
100301174022	Frontier Issues of Capital Market Law	2	7
100301174023	Securities Law	2	8
100301174024	Criminal Psychology	2	4
100301174025	Criminal Policy	2	7
100301174026	Criminology	2	6
100301174027	International Trade Law	2	8
100301174028	International investment law	2	5
100301174029	International Moot Court Competition: Theory and Practice	2	3	including legal practice 1 credit
100301174030	Comparative Constitutional Law	2	2
100301174031	International Human Rights Law	2	8
100301174032	Marriage Law and Succession Law	2	5
100301174033	Corporation Law		7
100301174034	Research on the Cases of Civil Law	2	3	including legal practice 1 credit
100301174035	Judgment Methods of Civil and Commercial cases	2	4	including legal practice 1 credit
100301174036	Trademark Law	2	6
100301174037	Patent Law	2	7
100301174038	Copyright Law	2	5
100301174039	The Law of Civil Procedure: Principles, Institutions, and Cases	2	5	including legal practice 1 credit
100301174040	Introduction to Chinese Enforcement Law	2	6	including legal practice 1 credit
100301174041	Evidence Technology	2	6	including legal practice 1 credit
100301174042	Science of Criminal Investigation	2	7	including legal practice 1 credit
100301174043	Arbitration Law	2	8	including legal practice 1 credit
100301174044	Legal Practice（Legal Practice）	1	2	Legal practice course
100301174045	Legal Practice（Legal  Judgements）	1	2	Legal practice course
100301174046	Legal Practice e（Prosecution）	1	4	Legal practice course
100301174047	Legal Practice（Notarization）	1	4	Legal practice course
100301174048	Legal Practice（Lawyer）	1	4	Legal practice course
100301174049	Lawyer and Notary Practice	2	6
100301174050	Trial and Procuratorial Practice	2	7
100301174051	Moot court	2	7	Legal practice course
100301174052	Clinical Legal Education	2	6	Legal practice course
100301174053	World-famous Universities' Open Courses	2	8
100301174054	Frontiers  of  Law (1)	2	2
100301174055	Frontiers  of  Law (2)	2	3

(Note: 1. Odd-number semesters are the fall semesters and even-number semesters are the spring semesters in each academic year. 

      2. The asterisk * marks a core course.

4. Core Courses and Introductions

101202163001   Constitutional Law   (3 cr.)

Prerequisites:   None

Constitution law is one of main courses for students major in law. By the course- teaching, students will understand and grasp the general principles of the constitution, the history development process of the constitution, Chinese national system and social system in constitution, the rights and obligations of citizens, the roles and responsibilities of state organs established by Chinese constitution. In additional, the course will also provide knowledge and theoretical basis for students, which support for them to form the constitutional sense and civil consciousness and establish a good foundation for the further study.

Constitutional law includes the basic theory, general system, rights and obligations of citizens and the implementation of constitution. The basic theory of constitution includes the concept, history, principle, formulation, the form and structure, constitutional norm, constitutional relation, constitutional value and function. The basic system of constitution is about the nature of state, the form of state, election system, the structure of state, political party system and so on; Basic rights and obligations of citizens focus on the concept of citizens, the characteristics of civil basic rights and obligations, basic rights and obligations of citizens. The part of implementation of constitution discusses constitutional implementation’s concept, principle, process, constitutional interpretation, constitutional amendment, the evaluation and review of constitutional implementation, the order of constitution.

History of Chinese Law   (3 cr.)

Prerequisites:   Civil law; Criminal law; Criminal Procedure law; Civil Procedure Law

The course is designed to let students understand and master the legal thoughts of each era in Chinese history, learn dialectical materialism and historical materialism as a guide, treat with and evaluate the legal thoughts of representative figures in various historical periods properly, and thus be able to sum up historical experience, succeed our traditional legal cultural heritage critically, serve the rule of law and building a socialist country ruled by law. At the same time, the students can absorb knowledge, learn to use various learning methods and way of thinking include historical analysis, comparative analysis, cultural analysis to analyze the problems, read the writings and write papers, then have the ability to find, analyze and solve problems, lay a solid foundation for further research and study.

It is a compulsory course for law school students. The course teaches Chinese law from Xia Dynasty and Shang Dynasty to the end of Qing Dynasty systematically. With providing a lot of history materials and the research achievement in Chinese legal history research, the course reveals the development of legal system in China and its impacts. According to the process of Chinese history, the textbook introduces the legal thoughts, legislative general situation and major legal system in every Dynasty in China’s history.

Jurisprudence   (3 cr.)

Prerequisites:   None

Through the study of this course, students will understand the basic concepts, research areas and methods of law; get improved in listening, speaking, reading and thinking of legal materials, and will be able to apply the basic methods to legal research and practice.

This course is suitable for the senior law students, it’s main contents include:

(1) the emergence and development of legal science and law.

(2) the basic theories of law, which include the concept, elements, characteristics, nature, role, functions sources, departments, and systems of law.

(3) the operation of law, which includes legislation, the enforcement of law, legal relation, legal obligation and legal sanction.

(4) the values of law, which include but not limited to freedom, justice and order. As the basis for the roles and functions of law, the values decide the law’s direction for evolvement.

(5) the outer environment of the operation of law.

As law has very close relations with the other social issues including economics, politics, morality, religion and human rights, etc., the environments for law to play the rule in the society are very important issues of Jurisprudence.

Administrative Law   (3 cr.)

Prerequisites:   Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Civil Law

Administrative law concerns administrative agencies and their operations, especially about the legal relationship between administrative agencies and legislature, executive, judiciary, or the individuals. After studying, undergraduate students should gain basic knowledge of the administrative legal system in China, develop legal thinking and legal skills to analysis social events and cases in respect of administrative law.

The main contents of the course include:

1. the basic theories of administrative law,

2. parties to administrative legal relations,

3. theories of administrative action,

4. administrative procedure law,

5. administrative responsibility and legal remedy.

Civil Law   (3 cr.)

Prerequisites:   An Introduction to Jurisprudence

Through learning this course, students will understand and grasp the intrinsic spirit and the basic rules of civil law comprehensively and accurately, respect the property rights and personal rights consciously, solve practical civil cases arising in life by using the theories and knowledge learned in this course.

This course is one of the compulsory courses for full-time undergraduate students major in law, which include the concept and the objects of civil law, basic principles of civil law, civil legal relationship, civil subject, civil rights, civil juristic act, agent, limitation in law, and the principles and legal provisions of personal rights. The teaching of the course combines present civil legislation with judicial situation of our country, affords some of the major theoretical and practical problems civil law, in order to let students master the principles and rules in civil law and put them into practice.

Civil Procedure Law    (3 cr.)

Prerequisites:   Civil Law

By learning this course, students can master the basic principles and methods of civil procedural law. They can explain and use the commonly used term of lawsuit and improve the ability to analyze and solve practical litigation problems, especially  the  problems in judgment.

This course is one of the main courses for students major in law. The main task is to cultivate students’ ability in applying the basic theory, system and procedures of civil procedure law into solving the problems in practical litigation. This course mainly involves the basic theory, system and procedures and the execution of the judgment in civil procedural law. It emphasizes on the application of the system and procedure of civil procedure law in practice. The main contents of this course  include the concept and characters of civil litigation, the basic principles and systems of civil lawsuit, management and jurisdiction, the parties, civil litigation evidence, judgment procedure, special litigation procedure, civil execution, etc.

Criminal Procedure Law   (3 cr.)

Prerequisites:   Criminal Law

The course is designed to make students master the basic concepts of the criminal procedure law and the specific content contained in the basic theories and the procedure systematically, be familiar with the provisions of the criminal law, get the basic ability to analysis and solve the practical problems of criminal litigation, in order to satisfy the needs of the judicial practice and theoretical research related to the course.

Criminal procedure law is a compulsory professional course designed for law school students. The course contains the basic concepts, principles and rules of the criminal procedural law in China. The course can help the students get the ability to analyze and solve practical problems with criminal procedure issues properly.

General Provisions of Criminal Law   (3 cr.)   

Prerequisites:   Jurisprudence

The main purpose of this subject is to describe the basic concepts, basic theories and research methods of the general provisions of criminal law. By means of discussing the cases and the theories in class, the students can get an thorough understanding of the basic knowledge and methods about the general provisions of criminal law, which will be helpful for them to analysis the issues about the criminal law happened in life, reinforce the consciousness of ruling by law and foster their academic interests. Meanwhile, the course also helps the students build a solid foundation for other related courses.

The Criminal Law is one about crimes and punishments, the object of which mainly covers the constitution of crime, the types of punishments and the institution of the criminal law. In this course, the basic concepts, theories and methods will be described and analyzed in class completely and systematically.

The content of the general provisions of criminal law comprises three parts: outline of criminal law, theories of crime and punishment of crime. The outline of criminal law is a general description, including the concept of the criminal law, the aim of the criminal law, the validity of the criminal law and the principles of the criminal law. The theories of crime mainly involves the concept of crime, the constitution of crime，justifiable acts，joint crimes and the suspend situation of the intentional crime. The theories of punishment deals with the institution of punishment and the institution of measurement of punishment, consisting of the system and types of punishment, the function and purpose of punishment, the measurement of punishment, the execution of punishment and the annihilation of punishment. This course will adapt classroom explanation and case-analysis as the chief methods in teaching, in order to help students to formulate an overall knowledge of the general provisions of criminal law, have the basic ability to analyze and solve the criminal problems, and learn to pay close attention to the development of the criminal law and sociality justice.

International Law   (3 cr.)

Prerequisites:   Legal Theory, Civil Law, Criminal Law

The course is designed for getting to know the basic theories and rules in international law by the students, which includes but no limited to Law of Treaties, Law of Diplomatic and Consular Relations, Law of the Sea, International Space Law, International Environmental Law, International Human Rights Law and Law of War. From this course, the students will have a general understanding of the interaction between international society and international law, the operation mechanism of international law, and the ordinary methods of analyzing international disputes from the perspective of international law.

The content of the course of international law includes introductory part (general information) and branches of international law. In the introduction, it consists of the concept, the development, the subjects, the source, and the basis for its binding force of international law; the relationship of international law and domestic law, the general principle of international law; the states, territory, individuals in international law. In the branches of international law, it includes the law of sea, air law, space law, law of treaties, the law of international organizations, the law of diplomatic relations, international human rights law, international environmental law, peaceful settlement of international disputes, and the law of war.

Administrative Procedural Law   (3 cr.)

Prerequisites:   Administrative law

Through learning of this course, students are required to be able to grasp of the legislative spirit of administrative procedure law in China thoroughly and accurately, understand the meaning and role of administrative lawsuit system in the process of Chinese legal system construction, master the basic theories and knowledge of administrative procedural law, get the capability of resolving the disputes relating to administration and administrative procedure.

It is a main professional course for law students. The main contents are:

(1) the general issues of administrative procedure law, which include the concept of administrative litigation, administrative litigation legislation tenet, the conditions of the emergence and development of administrative litigation system, the principle of administrative, litigation, the basic system of administrative litigation, etc.

(2) Scope of accepting cases of administrative litigation, including the scope of accepting cases and determine the standards, ways, the people's court accepts the administrative cases, the people's court shall not accept the case, etc.

(3) the jurisdiction of the jurisdiction of administrative litigation, including the establishment of the principle, grade jurisdiction, territorial jurisdiction, the jurisdiction of the ruling; Litigants, including the plaintiff and the defendant, the third person;

(4) Administrative litigation evidence, including the classification of the administrative litigation evidence, the burden of proof, evidence obtaining and preservation, administrative litigation, cross-examination and certification, etc.

(5) Administrative proceedings, including the first trial procedure, criminal procedure, retrial procedure, execute a program, etc. The administrative litigation law applicable and solution principles and methods of conflict of laws; The relevant provisions of the administrative litigation concerning foreign affairs.