From February 10 to 21, 2025, students from the Law School of Liaoning University went to the University of Technology Sydney in Australia for academic exchanges. Ten students including undergraduates, master students and Ph.D. students from the school participated in the program.
The students visited the University of Technology Sydney, the Supreme Court New South Wales and the Downing Centre Local Court, experiencing Australia’s colorful teaching modes and culture. The trip also deepened their understanding of the common law system in the cross-cultural exchange seminars and field visit.
The University of Technology Sydney offered courses and seminars related to law for the students. The courses paid attention to the improvement of the students’ autonomous learning and research ability, focused on their independent thinking and critical analysis abilities on legal issues and cultivated their legal literacy and comprehensive abilities, thus laying a solid foundation for their future legal career. In addition, under the multicultural background, the courses conformed to the needs of training foreign-related legal talents and attached importance to improving communication and negotiation skills in the legal field under the cross-cultural background by analyzing real cases and learning legal reasoning methods in common law countries. These courses enabled the students to acquire diversified thinking modes and improved their ability to solve practical problems with legal logic.
During the seminar, the students got a deep understanding of Australia’s history and culture, comprehensively explored the characteristics, integration and challenges of Australia’s multiculturalism and explored the development path of Australia under the guidance of teachers. At the same time, in order to cultivate students’ critical thinking on legal issues, the teachers at the seminar encouraged them to express diverse opinions on cases and raise questions, enhancing their abilities to think, analyze and evaluate independently. The seminar also raised their awareness of not blindly accepting existing views and bravely challenging traditional views, thus helping them discover the essence of problems and promote innovation and progress.
After the courses, the students visited the Australian Law Courts. They studied the layout of the court, the composition and responsibilities of the judges as well as the procedures and rules of trial and gained a deep understanding of the Australian judicial system, court structure, trial process and legal culture.
The study program took the University of Technology Sydney as the research base and replaced the traditional teaching mode with the dual-track teaching mode of ‘theoretical teaching-field visit’. By focusing on the themes such as multicultural development, legal systems and cultures of common law countries and humanitarian law, the program innovated the training mechanism of foreign-related legal talents, broadened the students’ international horizons, paid attention to the cultivation of their abilities and enhanced their core competitiveness.
The study program to Sydney University of Science and Technology is an important part of the training of foreign-related legal talents at the Law School of Liaoning University, which meets the needs of the training plan for foreign-related legal talents. The program is committed to broadening students’ international horizons through innovative ways of international visits and exchanges, enabling them to understand the legal systems and cultural backgrounds of different countries, accumulate foreign-related practical experience, enhance foreign-related legal skills and cultivate high-quality foreign-related legal talents with international competitiveness.
