What subjects do you need to take in the law postgraduate entrance examination?

The law postgraduate entrance examination needs to take professional basic courses (civil law and criminal law), professional comprehensive courses (constitution, jurisprudence and legal history), English I (or minority languages) and politics.

Among them, politics and foreign languages are the national unified examinations, and the propositions of professional basic courses and comprehensive courses have been taken care of by the examination center of the Ministry of Education since 2004, and they are also the same papers as the national candidates. In other words, LLM is a national entrance examination. In the initial test, no matter which school you apply for, the papers you get in the initial test are the same.

Popular major of law postgraduate entrance examination

1, procedural law

This subject mainly includes criminal procedure law, civil procedure law, criminal investigation and material evidence technology. With the increasing emphasis on the value of procedural justice in China's court system, the employment prospects of litigation law majors are better, so many students majoring in litigation law compete for employment in the court system after graduation.

If candidates for postgraduate entrance examination want to engage in the legal profession in the future, graduates with professional background in procedural law will have an advantage in employment competition. Comparatively speaking, the employment difficulty in the direction of criminal procedure law is greater than that in the direction of civil procedure law, and the admission ratio is generally around 10: 1. However, the specific situation of each postgraduate school is different, and the possible proportion has also changed.

2. International law

The entrance examination for this postgraduate major is very hot. Generally speaking, you must have good foreign language ability to apply for this postgraduate major. The postgraduate entrance examination for international law majors is very flexible. General civil servants, university teachers, lawyers, and lawyers in state-owned enterprises or foreign enterprises are the main employment directions of graduates taking the postgraduate entrance examination.