Niigata University will collaborate with Chuo University Law School to produce legal personnel, and held a signing ceremony for a partnership agreement at Niigata University in Chuo-ku, Niigata City.Niigata University abolished the law school in 2017, but it has a similar agreement with Tohoku University and Kobe University, and students who studied at Niigata University for 3 years proceed to the law school of the affiliated school and justice in 5 years. To qualify for the exam.
According to Niigata University, the agreement was signed in line with the fact that the government is near and plans to set up a new course in legal profession education that will shorten the study period of four years undergraduate and two to three years of graduate school to five years.The signing ceremony was attended by Ken Baba, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Niigata University, and Aya Ogiso, Dean of the Graduate School of Law, Chuo University, who signed the agreement and vowed to cooperate.
When the new course starts, students who graduated from the Faculty of Law at Niigata University early in three years will study at Chuo University Law School for two years and qualify for the bar examination.The two universities will enter into concrete discussions on entrance examinations and curriculum organization.The new course is expected to start in 3.
Niigata University had set up a law school with a capacity of 20 people, but it was forced to abolish due to the decrease in enrollment.High school students who aim to become lawyers, prosecutors, and judges are more likely to take the entrance exams for universities where law schools are set up, and the number of examinees for the Niigata University Faculty of Law has decreased temporarily after the recruitment of law schools was suspended.The aim of collaborating with law schools one after another is to secure examinees.
