Taking Keio University as an example, students first study six introductory disciplines, namely, constitutional law, civil law, criminal law, commercial law, civil procedure law and criminal procedure law, and conduct in-depth study around the basic knowledge of each discipline, the development of each discipline and the subjects they are interested in in in the direction of consolidating the foundation.
2. Legal research
Taking the legal research of Waseda University as an example, the seminar offered specialization in civil law, public law and basic law. Under each major, there is a professional direction. For example:
civil law major: civil law, commercial law, civil procedure law, labor and social law, intellectual property law, environmental law, economic law and international relations law (private law)
public law major: constitution, administrative law, criminal law, criminal procedure law, criminal policy and international relations law (public law)
basic law major: legal philosophy, legal history, legal sociology. French law
3. Law school
Law school is a new legal education model born in Japan after 24. It is based on the model of American law school and aims to train lawyers (lawyers, judges and prosecutors are collectively referred to as "jurists" in Japan) to become practitioners. Law school is also institutionalized as a graduate school in the legal research department, generally known as the graduate school of law or the graduate school of advanced judicial research, parallel to the graduate school of law. There is no major or major direction in law school, and the curriculum is applied. Students learn the basic knowledge and practical skills of all branches of law to prepare for the judicial examination after graduation. Law University College enrolls two kinds of students: one is students with legal background, that is, students who have obtained a bachelor's degree in law; The other category is social people who have no legal background, but must have a bachelor's degree or higher (international students, except those who have studied in the law school of Japanese universities, are regarded as having no legal background). After graduating from law school, you can get a doctorate in law (JD) and the qualification to take the judicial examination. It is worth noting that foreign students cannot directly apply for graduate students in Japanese law schools at present. In order to ensure the fairness of the examination, in principle, a unified entrance examination system is adopted for both law graduates and non-law graduates.