Juris Master(JM)is a professional degree education which mainly trains high levellegal and managerial professionals in fields including legislation, judiciary,administrative enforcement, legal service, legal supervision, economicmanagement, social managementetc.
This program wasapproved byMinistry of Educationof PRCto set up in 2014. We have 28 full-time law teachers whichincludes 6 professors, 5 assistant professors,11 master tutors. There are 13faculty members having PhD degrees and 15 faculty members having lawyerqualification. Many of them hold concurrent position as vice president,Standing director as well as director in law society of Shandong Provinceand its sub society and as arbitrator, people's juror. Other than that,law school has more than 30 part-time professors and master tutors.
After many yearsof accumulation, law school has set up one university levelkeymajor, one research base of humanities and Social Sciences, 2university level research institutions, 6 school level research centers. 3 courses of law school have been approved to be university level exquisitecourses. 2 courses have been approved to be excellent courses. Lawschool has strong strength in intellectual property law, economic law, civiland business law, criminal law, jurisprudence and other subjects and has itsown law major brand with the characteristic of intellectual propertylaw. Faculty members have hosted many high level research projects whichincludes 1 national social science fund project, 2 humanities and socialscience project of Ministry of Education. They have published many papersin “Peking university law journal”, ”Tsinghua university law journal”, ”Law andsocial development”, ”Legal forum” and other CSSCI journals. A portion oftheir papers have been completely reprinted by “Materials from Newspapers andPeriodicals Duplicated by Remin University” and a portion of them have beenextracted and compiled by “Xinhua Digest”. A number of researchachievements have gotten excellent social science reward of Shandong Province.
To train highlevel, comprehensive and practical legal professionals equipped with legalknowledge as well as knowledge in other subjects who can actively mastersocialist concept of the rule of lawand serve in different legal professional departments. The circumstantialrequirements areas follows:
1. Studentsshould be able to master thebasictheories of Marxism, to conscientiously abide by constitution and law, topossess excellent political quality and citizen quality, to deeply mastersocialist concept of the rule of law andprinciples of law careerethics and to adhered faithfullyto ethical principles of law career.
2. Studentsshould be able to master legal principles and knowledge, to master legalknowledge, legal terms, thinking habits, legal methods and legal skillsrequired by legal career. Students should be able to observe and analyzevarious cases byapplyinglegal career thinking and legal principles and should be able to master and usebasic legal explanation method to do legal reasoning in concrete cases.
3. Studentsshould be able to be familiar with procedures of all types of litigation,arbitration and non litigation, to be able to conduct different litigationactivities, to be able to do survey as well as evidence investigation.
4. Studentsshould be able to skillfully conduct legal agency and defending work, to beable to conduct non-litigation business(for example,legalconsulting,negotiation, contract drafting) and organization and management of legalbusiness.
5.具有起草規(guī)范性法律文件的一般經(jīng)驗(yàn)。
5.Studentsshould be able to master normal experience of drafting norm documents
6.較為熟練地掌握一門外語(yǔ),能夠閱讀專業(yè)外語(yǔ)資料。
6.Studentsshould be able to comparatively master one foreign language as well as be ableto read materials in foreign language.
According tostudents’ major background and choice, law school trains juris master competentfor intellectual property protection, intellectual property management,intellectual property agency.
1. In thebeginning 3 semesters, students will do course study. Lecturing, classdiscussion, special study conducted by students will be used as teachingmodes. In the fourth and fifth semester, students are required to dotraining practice in courts, law firms, legal department ofenterprises and other training basementsin contract withlaw school.
2. In order toforge the characteristic of practice, law school will assign every student onetutor in university and one tutor outside university, the tutor in universitytakes charge of student’s course and dissertation advising, while the tutoroutside university takes charge of student’s training practice related to hiscourses.
3.課程考核主要包括考試、課程論文、平時(shí)作業(yè)等多種形式。
3.Courseevaluation includes examinations, course paper, assignment etc.
Degreedissertation is a keybenchmarkto measure training quality on master students, also the main link to evaluatemaster students’ creative ability to find, analyze and resolve problems bycomprehensively applying the knowledge they learn, which should be completedunder master tutor’s guidance. This section has 10 credits. Thedetailed requirement for this section is as follows:
1. Aftercompleting required degree courses, getting required credits and passingcomprehensive evaluation, master students will be allowed to go into the degreedissertation writing period.
2. Masterstudents in this program shall decide the topic of dissertation in the third semester, and passdissertation proposal. The topic should focus on practical problemconcerning legal practice, deep legal theories and could reflect students’ability to resolve legal practical problems with the theories and knowledgethey learn. Dissertationproposal report shall be defended circumstantially by students on reasons fortopic selection, materials preparation, problems to resolve, creative points,research plan and progress and shall go through feasibility demonstration indiscussion conference attended by experts in that very field or related fields.only after approval, the research could be conducted. After evaluation bytutor and approval by tutor group, students could draft an outline undertutor’s guidance. After outline is reviewed and revised by tutor,master student could start writing papers. Other than the form ofacademic paper, the form of case study (focusing on more than 3 cases on sametopic), study report and special survey and other forms are also acceptable. Thedraft of dissertation should be reviewed by tutor and given advice on revisingaccording to which the draft will be revised and the final draft will be formedby master student.
3. Requirementsfor master degree dissertation in this program are as follows: (1) Proposedtopic should bear strong realistic meaning. The design of topic should bereasonable and should manifest the characteristics of its direction chosen inthis program. (2) Students should comb and collect similar existingresearch projects in China, or comb and collect status quo in practice ofsimilar existing research projects in China as well as explain focuses ofcontention and unresolved problems. (3) Dissertation should show that itswriter has logically study and analyze layers of questions up to therequirement of “deep analysis” and” reasonable structure ofdemonstration”. (4) There should be adequate argument reasons andfoundations. The language of dissertation shall reflect that writers havethoroughlyread aconsiderable amount of related materials. Juris master students shallread at least 15 academic books other than textbooks during program study, andthe number of books related to dissertation topic read for writing degreedissertation shall not be less than 5. The amount of reading shall bereflected in citations which should manifest that students have read and beenfamiliar with representative academic books in China. References shalllist related materials. Students are encouraged to refer to latest foreignmaterials. In a word, the requirement of “adequate materials” and“compliant citations” should be met. (5) Students should have theawareness of research methods, and should be able to use various researchmethods including social survey and statistics, sociological analysis method,comparative method, method of norm and positivism, value analysis and othermethods. (6) Students should have creative opinions on basis of cautionand earnest. (7) The language should be concise, polished and in linewith mandarin writing norms, the number of words should be around 20,000.
The dissertationpaper should be reviewed by 3 experts with senior academic title, one of themmust be professional or scholar outside this university. Withindissertation defense committee, there should be at least one or twoprofessionals in practical department or with senior professional technicalposition outside university. Students who passed curriculum examinationsand dissertation defense will be conferred juris master professional degree.
(九)研究生報(bào)考及入學(xué)后的補(bǔ)貼和獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)政策(Student Aid and Scholarship)
1.學(xué)生在校期間,學(xué)校每年發(fā)放助學(xué)金8000元。
1. Each student can get 8,000 RMBstudent aid from university in every school year.
2. The university has graduatescholarship including freshman scholarship and comprehensive scholarship. All new students with exemption of examination by recommendation will getfreshman scholarship, top 90 percent of new students who had this university asfirst choice can get freshman scholarship; comprehensive scholarship will beissued in the 3rdand 5thsemester. Scholarship has 3levels which is 7,000 RMB, 4,000 RMB and 2,000 RMB respectively.
3.學(xué)校設(shè)有研究生助研崗位和助管崗位,發(fā)放一定數(shù)額的津貼。
3. University has graduate assistantshipson research and management positions.
(Note: According to policies andsituation in university and law school, contents above can be adjusted inimplementation. The executive right of this explanation belongs to the lawschool at Qingdao university of science and technology.)
二、法律碩士(法學(xué))介紹
II. Juris Master (ForUndergraduates with Law Bachelor Degree)
(一)學(xué)科、專業(yè)簡(jiǎn)介(Introductionto Discipline and Program)
Juris Master(JM)is a professional degree education which mainly trains high level legal andmanagerial professionals in fields including legislation, judiciary,administrative enforcement, legal service, legal supervision, economicmanagement, social management etc.
This program wasapproved by Ministry of Education of PRC to set up in 2014. We have 28full-time law teachers which includes 6 professors, 5 assistant professors,11master tutors. There are 13 faculty members having PhD degrees and 15 facultymembers having lawyer qualification. Many of them hold concurrentposition as vice president, Standing director as well as director in lawsociety of Shandong Province and its sub society and as arbitrator, people'sjuror. Other than that, law school has more than 30 part-time professorsand master tutors.
After many yearsof accumulation, law school has set up one university levelkeydiscipline, one research base of humanities and Social Sciences, 2 universitylevel research institutions, 6 school level research centers. 3 coursesof law school have been approved to be university level exquisitecourses. 2 courses have been approved to be excellent courses. Lawschool has strong strength in intellectual property law, economic law, civiland business law, criminal law, jurisprudence and other subjects and has itsown law major brand with the characteristic of intellectual propertylaw. Faculty members have hosted many high level research projects whichincludes 1 national social science fund project, 2 humanities and socialscience project of Ministry of Education. They have published many papersin “Peking university law journal”, ”Tsinghua university law journal”, ”Law andsocial development”, ”Legal forum” and other CSSCI journals. A portion oftheir papers have been completely reprinted by “Materials from Newspapers andPeriodicals Duplicated by Remin University” and a portion of them have beenextracted and compiled by “Xinhua Digest”. A number of researchachievements have gotten excellent social science reward of ShandongProvince.
To train highlevel, comprehensive and practical legal professionals equipped with legalknowledge as well as knowledge in other subjects who can actively mastersocialist concept of the rule of law and serve in different legal professionaldepartments. The circumstantial requirements are as follows:
1. Studentsshould be able to master the basic theories of Marxism, to conscientiouslyabide by constitution and law, to possess excellent political quality andcitizen quality, to deeply master socialist concept of the rule of law andprinciples of law career ethics and to adhered faithfully to ethical principlesof law career.
2. Studentsshould be able to master legal principles and knowledge, to master legalknowledge, legal terms, thinking habits, legal methods and legal skillsrequired by legal career. Students should be able to observe and analyzevarious cases by applying legal career thinking and legal principles and shouldbe able to master and use basic legal explanation method to do legal reasoningin concrete cases.
3. Studentsshould be able to be familiar with procedures of all types of litigation,arbitration and non litigation, to be able to conduct different litigationactivities, to be able to do survey as well as evidence investigation.
4. Studentsshould be able to skillfully conduct legal agency and defending work, to beable to conduct non-litigation business(for example, legal consulting,negotiation, contract drafting) and organization and management of legalbusiness.
5.具有起草規(guī)范性法律文件的一般經(jīng)驗(yàn)。
5.Studentsshould be able to master normal experience of drafting norm documents
6.較為熟練地掌握一門外語(yǔ),能夠閱讀專業(yè)外語(yǔ)資料。
6.Studentsshould be able to comparatively master one foreign language as well as be ableto read materials in foreign language.
According tostudents’ major background and choice, law school trains juris master competentfor intellectual property protection, intellectual property management,intellectual property agency.
(三)學(xué)制及學(xué)習(xí)年限(Study Modes and Program Length)
采用全日制的學(xué)習(xí)方式,學(xué)制一般為2年。
This program adoptsfull-time study mode and it normally takes 2 years to complete.
1. In thebeginning 2 semesters, students will do course study. Lecturing, classdiscussion, special study conducted by students will be used as teachingmodes. In the last 2 semesters, students are required to do trainingpractice in courts, law firms, legal department of enterprises and othertraining basements in contract with law school.
2. In order toforge the characteristic of practice, law school will assign every student onetutor in university and one tutor outside university, the tutor in universitytakes charge of student’s course and dissertation advising, while the tutoroutside university takes charge of student’s training practice related to hiscourses.
3.課程考核主要包括考試、課程論文、平時(shí)作業(yè)等多種形式。
3. Courseevaluation includes examinations, course paper, assignment etc.
Degree dissertationis a key benchmark to measure training quality on master students, also themain link to evaluate master students’ creative ability to find, analyze andresolve problems by comprehensively applying the knowledge they learn, whichshould be completed under master tutor’s guidance. This section has 5credits. The detailed requirement for this section is as follows:
1. Aftercompleting required degree courses, getting required credits and passing comprehensiveevaluation, master students will be allowed to go into the degree dissertationwriting period.
2. Masterstudents in this program shall decide the topic of dissertation in the thirdsemester, and pass dissertation proposal. The topic should focus onpractical problem concerning legal practice, deep legal theories and couldreflect students’ ability to resolve legal practical problems with the theoriesand knowledge they learn. Dissertation proposal report shall be defendedcircumstantially by students on reasons for topic selection, materialspreparation, problems to resolve, creative points, research plan and progressand shall go through feasibility demonstration in discussion conferenceattended by experts in that very field or related fields. only after approval,the research could be conducted. After evaluation by tutor and approvalby tutor group, students could draft an outline under tutor’s guidance. After outline is reviewed and revised by tutor, master student could startwriting papers. Other than the form of academic paper, the form of casestudy (focusing on more than 3 cases on same topic), study report and specialsurvey and other forms are also acceptable. The draft of dissertation should bereviewed by tutor and given advice on revising according to which the draftwill be revised and the final draft will be formed by master student.
3. Requirementsfor master degree dissertation in this program are as follows: (1) Proposedtopic should bear strong realistic meaning. The design of topic should bereasonable and should manifest the characteristics of its direction chosen inthis program. (2) Students should comb and collect similar existingresearch projects in China, or comb and collect status quo in practice ofsimilar existing research projects in China as well as explain focuses ofcontention and unresolved problems. (3) Dissertation should show that itswriter has logically study and analyze layers of questions up to therequirement of “deep analysis” and” reasonable structure ofdemonstration”. (4) There should be adequate argument reasons andfoundations. The language of dissertation shall reflect that writers havethoroughly read a considerable amount of related materials. Juris masterstudents shall read at least 15 academic books other than textbooks duringprogram study, and the number of books related to dissertation topic read forwriting degree dissertation shall not be less than 5. The amount ofreading shall be reflected in citations which should manifest that studentshave read and been familiar with representative academic books in China. References shall list related materials. Students are encouraged to refer tolatest foreign materials. In a word, the requirement of “adequatematerials” and “compliant citations” should be met. (5) Students shouldhave the awareness of research methods, and should be able to use variousresearch methods including social survey and statistics, sociological analysismethod, comparative method, method of norm and positivism, value analysis andother methods. (6) Students should have creative opinions on basis ofcaution and earnest. (7) The language should be concise, polished and inline with mandarin writing norms, the number of words should be around20,000.
The dissertationpaper should be reviewed by 3 experts with senior academic title, one of themmust be professional or scholar outside this university. Withindissertation defense committee, there should be at least one or twoprofessionals in practical department or with senior professional technicalposition outside university. Students who passed curriculum examinationsand dissertation defense will be conferred Juris Master professional degree.
(九)研究生報(bào)考及入學(xué)后的補(bǔ)貼和獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)政策(StudentAid and Scholarship)
1.學(xué)生在校期間,學(xué)校每年發(fā)放助學(xué)金8000元。
1. Each student can get 8,000 RMBstudent aid from university in every school year.
2. The university has graduatescholarship including freshman scholarship and comprehensive scholarship. All new students with exemption of examination by recommendation will getfreshman scholarship, top 90 percent of new students who had this university asfirst choice can get freshman scholarship; comprehensive scholarship will beissued in the 3rdand 5thsemester. Scholarship has 3levels which is 7,000 RMB, 4,000 RMB and 2,000 RMB respectively.
3.學(xué)校設(shè)有研究生助研崗位和助管崗位,發(fā)放一定數(shù)額的津貼。
3. University has graduate assistantshipson research and management positions.
(Note: According to policies andsituation in university and law school, contents above can be adjusted inimplementation. The executive right of this explanation belongs to the lawschool at Qingdao university of science and technology.)