The judicial examination is feasible, but if you want to be promoted, it is unsustainable without a master's degree. Master of Laws (JM for short), its postgraduate degree education aims to train high-level compound and practical legal talents. The Joint Entrance Examination for the Master of Laws is divided into the Joint Entrance Examination for the Full-time Master of Laws in January and the Joint Entrance Examination for the In-service Master of Laws in October.
To apply for the full-time Master of Laws degree, applicants are required to have a bachelor's degree or a non-law graduate with an equivalent bachelor's degree. Applicants with an equivalent bachelor's degree are generally required to have a nationally recognized college degree and work for two or more years after graduation. There are thirteen majors that cannot be applied for the master's degree in law. They are economic law, legal affairs, international law, jurisprudence, international economic law, commercial law, criminal law notarization, labor reform law, administrative law, lawyers, foreign economics and law, and knowledge. Property Law.
The application requirements for the on-the-job master's degree in law are a bachelor's degree, which generally requires more than 5 years of working experience and practical experience. Personnel engaged in political and legal departments such as courts, procuratorates, judicial administration, political and legal committees, public security, or those engaged in legal work. The examination subjects are political theory, English, professional basic courses, and comprehensive courses. Among them, professional basic courses include criminal law and civil law, and comprehensive courses include legal theory, constitutional law, and the history of Chinese legal system. The political theory examination is organized independently by each admissions unit and arranged at its own time; the other three subjects are subject to national joint examinations. When you graduate with a master's degree in law, you only get a degree certificate, not a graduation certificate.
Students who are preparing to take the 2013 Master's Degree Examination had better understand the career prospects of the Master of Laws in order to choose their future major. The Wendu Education Master of Laws Examination Center specially organized manpower to sort out relevant information, and A statistical analysis was conducted on the employment direction, salary situation, industry, employment prospects, career development and other aspects of the Master of Laws for the benefit of readers and Wendu students.
Statistics on employment status of Master of Laws
After graduation, graduates with a Master of Laws degree will mainly engage in practical work such as legislation, judiciary, administrative law enforcement, legal services and business management. The work unit can of course be a court. , procuratorate, law firm, notary office, but also state agencies, public institutions, large enterprises, etc. In accordance with the provisions of the "Judges Law of the People's Republic of China" and the "Prosecutor Law of the People's Republic of China", he serves as a judge of the Higher People's Court and the Supreme People's Court, and serves as a judge of the People's Procuratorate and Supreme People's Procuratorate of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government. Prosecutors should all have a master's degree in law or above, but they must pass the national unified judicial examination. If they serve as clerks, they do not need to pass the judicial examination.
The level of the judicial department in our country is relatively high, and the current requirements for legal professionals basically require a professional degree or above. In some countries in Europe and the United States, law is not allowed to be offered at the undergraduate level, but can only be offered at the postgraduate level. Therefore, talents majoring in law, especially professional talents, can be said to be the elite of society, an elite group, so it requires a degree, academic qualifications, knowledge content, The level of thinking is relatively high, and it is obvious that external academic qualifications are the obvious standard.
It should be said that the employment of Master of Laws in the past few years was quite good. However, with the expansion of the scale of education and enrollment, and the unsatisfactory employment environment as a whole, it is also obvious that it is difficult for those with master's degrees to find employment. After graduating with a master's degree in law, quite a number of people do not engage in this profession, but choose other careers. Of course, the study experience of master's degree in law will also be of great help in other jobs.