编者按:法律教育是一个国家法治建设进程中的重要一环,不仅直接关涉到高素质法律人才的培养塑造,更在很大程度上决定着一国法治水平的高低。中国自改革开放以来,法律教育的成就有目共睹,但问题和困境也是接踵而至,法律教育因而成为法律界不得不深入思考的重要课题。本期刊发的全国外法史研究会第26届年会(“大学的兴起与法律教育”)论文三篇,分别梳理研究了美国、日本以及我国台湾地区法律教育的历史发展及变革模式,分析了其成功 Editor’s note: Legal education is an important part of the process of rule of law in a country. It not only directly relates to the training and shaping of high-quality legal personnel, but also to a large extent determines the level of the rule of law in a country. Since China started its reform and opening up, its achievements in legal education are obvious to all, but problems and predicaments are followed one after another. Therefore, legal education has become an important issue that the legal profession must ponder deeply. In this issue, there are three articles published by the 26th Annual Conference of the National Association of the History of Foreign Law Studies (“The Rise of the University and Legal Education”), combing the historical developments and changes in legal education in the United States, Japan and Taiwan Model, analyzed its success