A Brief Summary about Application of Case Teaching Methodology in China

摘要

In order to build a legal society in China, the education quality of law schools is receiving more and more attention, many reforms of education bring many highlights as well as drawbacks. This paper focuses on case teaching methodology, one of the highlights of education reforms, which put forward by Harvard University and introduced to China in the 1980s. With the joint efforts of Chinese scholars, this method is soon adopted by Chinese law schools, and play a gradually important role in Chinese law education. The paper also analyzes the shortcomings of Chinese traditional law education and the necessity of application of case teaching methodology. At the same time, this paper make a brief analyze on the issues arising out of adopting case teaching methodology and make some suggestions to facilitate the application of case teaching methodology in China.