Corrupt officials into law school

Zhou Dawei

These years, I do not know from that day on, I began to pay attention to the educational background of the Lok Ma officials for corruption. At present, many officials card, often with master, doctor, degree, and even hung, tutor of master, doctoral tutor Professor title. I was surprised to find that, there are many corrupt officials are holding those China famous law school "graduate".

For example, just for taking bribes was sentenced to death (suspended for two years)The people's Government of Shenzhen city mayor Xu ZonghengExperience shows that, Xu Zongheng served as Shenzhen Haitian publishing house, in 1994 July 1996 editor in chief in AugustChina University of Political Science and Law Graduate School of civil and commercial law graduate student class. In the words of this fashionable, his education belongs to the "working law graduate degree".

It is a coincidence, precisely, mayor Xu Zongheng and I am a professional: Civil and commercial law. In the legal profession, civil and commercial law is not easy to read. Read the law major in Renmin University of China law department I at the beginning of the eighty's, feel learning under a lot of pressure, professional books, strengthen language (Second Language), translating and reading classic works, research trips, writing the graduation thesis, always feel that time is not enough, my classmates and I almost always keep Sunday as "seven weeks" in. Xu Zongheng was a very day in and day out, is to press turnaround work does not stop, how much time to read, to cope with the curriculum, examination and writing paper?

More interestingly, the fall of 1998, the author and Xu Zongheng in a Shenzhen dinner sit next to, there have been a once-met acquaintance. I was once told to Mr. Xu, I majored in civil and Commercial Law (I did not know his background). I still remember clearly, the professional name Xu Zongheng said to me was no response. With an ordinary people's imagination, are not difficult to perceive that the degree is a bit suspicious, Xu Zongheng.

Originally thought, corrupt officials just for money beauty interest, did not think of their degree of university campus and even the title is also interested in the. Over the years, both at home and abroad to sell cheap way to officials of the degree is mainly two kinds: legal and economic management. Among them, in the official circles, have employed a law degree (Master's or doctor) leadership as a number. Qianlong news network reported, three years ago, Henan county official as "a galaxy of talents", from the county Party Secretary, county magistrate, deputy magistrate, to the mayor, police station, pass card are printed with "master", "master of economics" name. However, this county, although there are so many high degree "talent", but still let the county about 1000000 people wearing "state-level poverty-stricken counties" hat.

Whim: many officials in the law school, but I rarely heard officials into medical school degree. Wrote here, people thought not to link to a dozen years ago, Professor He that triggered strong concern "the demobilized soldiers into court" article. He Weifang once asked boldly in this paper: the demobilized soldiers why are arranged into court and not into the hospital? Law and medicine are not all and life related occupation? No, now the demobilized soldiers into the court has not so easy, but serving officers into law school is a new scenery. In the end, our society (including lawyers themselves) or too without the legal science seriously, and medical legal threshold comparison, we are too low, the course of law is also too weak, too easy to copy, law the law degree is too cheap.

In recent years, officials of the academic year Diploma in Yuejin, opening up. Officials like to read, this is a gratifying thing. However, the fact that we would be quite different today, what one sees and hears. Many officials are usually not very fond of reading, or busy with work to read, but they make every attempt to use their power and money, and some higher education institutions (including some natural them) "collusion", by resorting to deception way -- in the short term "great leap forward" to complete the "diploma transaction". The officials are in a position or to high-ranking, have the need for such a diploma, obviously not for knowledge update, but looking for a highfalutin promotion paving stone. For universities, it is almost no business -- can have such "officialdom alumni" and add to the glory of a gain both fame and wealth, but also to accumulate resources for the future "investment". Officials in fabrication of academic credentials is a kind of hundred-percent corruption, not only damaged the academic atmosphere, encourage officials fraud of the wind, but also shaken the fairness of the whole society and credit basis.

Now, a master's degree can not meet the demand with officialdom, "Ph.D. become promoted index", Ph.D. become in short supply. In order to adapt the officialdom increasingly strong demand, the university has launched a "doctor" degree to improve the yield of a new round of competition. Renmin University of China President Ji Baocheng has complained, Chinese largest doctoral group in officialdom. However, calm down to think carefully, these cheap diploma is how to be sold to these officials? Does our university will have no responsibility? Obviously, no certain colleges and universities "actively", officials mix diploma probably hard to succeed. Do not know from that day on, Chinese around the University's law school instructor and doctoral tutor, became the object of bureaucratic politicians chasing. In interleaved between a light wine, a pile of the sale transaction reached quickly. University officials and teachers or even to open each other, to see who recruited officials number, rank high, fame -- not to think it as shameful, but proud of. Especially for those mighty current or retired officials, not only a diploma, even part-time doctoral tutor title, have the school to go right.

In 2009 Chinese law blue book points out: law education China has not developed education access system unified, the lack of perfect supervision and management mechanism. Survey data show: as of 2008 November, the national total of legislative department 634, 30 years of reform and opening up 105.67 times the left and right; law undergraduate student 300000 people, junior college students law more than 22 people, 30 years increased by 200 times; the school master of law graduate students more than 6 people, 30 years increased by 260 times. In 2008, the number of PhD graduates China law of more than 1700 people, doctor of law enrollment of more than 2500 people, doctor of law students enrollment of more than 8500 people. According to Mr. Fang Liufang disclosed in the "ask Chinese legal education" in one article, Renmin University of China School of law in the 2006 - 2007 school year to recruit 148 doctoral students, China University of Political Science and Law in the 2007 - 2008 school year to recruit 137 doctoral students, two schools to recruit doctor of law are more than law, America law school when recruit students (SJD) the sum of. In addition, the country has about 3000000 Party school diploma holders, of which a considerable part of people hold the Graduate Diploma in law undergraduate, graduate and doctoral. "In twenty-first Century China, each school, the name and 'graduate course class',' on-the-job graduate student class', 'dual bachelor degree class',' college undergraduate class', 'Juris Master Class',' law Diploma - examination classes', lustrous and dazzling recruit students advertising contact together, the public university also operates hundred-percent for-profit project".

According to the statistics, since 2007, China continental law discipline graduates employment rate among liberal arts graduates from the bottom first. China law school since ninety's of last century, has been to the officialdom cheap put too many diploma, now begin to encounter the awkward "karma".

USA famous professor Laurence of Stanford University in twentieth Century. Freedman "America legal history" (American Law in the 20^ThCentury) a Book Review to,In the100Many years ago America, had all kinds of law school is like the wild rabbit barbarian growth age.At that time, a lot of hastily established law school in order to expand enrollment, full-time students in University, especially set up various "Legal Evening" and to night school students issued Diploma in law. Come to school students are mostly blue collar workers and family embarrassment of minority ethnic groups. Although "law school" has also trained several legal professionals, but a lot of law diploma spamming, also led to the rapid decline in the quality of legal education. At the moment, such as the Harvard University School of law, University of Pennsylvania School of law and other famous school of law is flatly refused to lower admission standards, not only does not swim, but the wind and -- increased enrollment requirements: law school students must have a bachelor's degree. In the thirty's of last century, Harvard Law School, almost all of the USA law school have adopted the "high standard, strict requirements", thus laying a lofty reputation American law school. For years, the world famous law school, as only a gorgeous peacock, cherish every feather their own similar cherish their reputation, never under any name to "sell" their diploma cheap.

Why do we China university law school to a small profit "by officials and wealthy", to open the door to their humble and free? It seems, China today, those who have felt "China best" and those who intend to become a "world-class" law school, of what is "real" law school is poorly understood. Today we know only the liabilities on the construction work on the hardware quickly, only know how to lower the threshold to sell in a green light, but still do not know a lot of knowledge and education after water injection will seriously disrupt the fair and hinder the development and progress of the society! It seems, in gas impetuous, utilitarianism and pragmatism are easily over the US law school sacred walls. China law school if not self-discipline, if continue to condone corruption forces, if continue to enrollment fraud and other phenomena of collective aphasia, so Chinese legal education destroyed will point the day and await for it. Today, too, it is not too late. Otherwise, it will be Eileen Chang's early that pay no heed to the words said: "age is hasty, has been destroyed, there is a greater damage to come."

This article wrote here, the receivable pen at. Turn off the computer before, and by the way in the search for another Shenzhen and Xu Zongheng involved in the case of more than Weiliang officials Lok Ma. Unexpectedly, discovery and surprise:Yu Weiliang, Shenzhen Longgang district party secretary, the degree of master of the job (Renmin University of China School of law, economic law major), on suspicion of corruption, had been detained.

Please continue to pay attention to, have a look how many corrupt officials have been our sacred "law school".

(this is the "Legal Daily - rule of law over the weekend" op, every week one, four weekly publication, the publication of the article slightly modified. -- author's note)