Soochow University School of Law

Soochow University School of Law is one of the historical, oldest, and traditional law school in Taiwan.

Soochow University was founded in 1900 at Soo Chow (now Suzhou), mainland China. The Comparative Law School of the University, as the first modern law school in China, was later founded in Shanghai in 1915. Soochow University School of Law provided modern legal training prior to the middle of the 20th century in Asia. During the Chinese Civil War, the University was forced to limit its operation along with many other academic institutes. The School of Law was the first school to be reinstated after the University was officially relocated to Taiwan in 1954. In 1972 the School of Law moved into a new seven-story,air-conditioned building in downtown Taipei. These quarters are shared with the Graduate School of Economics and the School of Commerce. The building is strategically located near the Presidential Office and the judicial and legislative government complex.

In 2015, the School of Law is holding a year-long centennial celebration, making it one of the oldest law schools in Taiwan.

When the Law School of Soochow University was established, the normal course was 3 hours,from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm a day, Monday to Friday every week.On the one hand, for the sake of the convenience of the part-time layers and judges, on the other hand,students can do part-time jobs to support themselves during the day. In order to make sure the student have completely appreciated the main legal regime and basic theory in the world, and to cultivate a valuable and valued generation who can make significant contributions for China in this field,the school decided to set up the course of 3 main legal system: The Common Law, the Anglo-America Law and the Chinese law at the same time; meanwhile, students can compare differences among the three legal system.

During 1920 though 1927, most course were taught in English,only few of courses which related to Chinese law system were taught in Chinese.In the early age after law school established, what student trained was the traditional Chinese teaching method——reading and reciting,but after 1923,the school began to exercise authentic case teaching method, instead of previous method to coordinate with Anglo-American law.

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