The Research Of Lawyer Profession Autonomy In China

Lawyer and legal profession play a unique and irreplaceable role in China’s development of "rule of law". However, current lagging lawyer governance system causes many lawyers to deviate from their Processional missions and values. Furthermore, China’s commitment to open its legal service market after its accession to WTO also raised serious challenges on how the current system adopt and deal with the post-WTO era. Therefore, examination and further autopsy of the current system is needed. This article would analyze such topic and the focus would be given on comparing and researching on different legal systems under the scope of different legal traditions. The questions that the leadership role the communist party takes and the independence of legal system would not be discussed here.The paper divides six chapters. The first part of the paper is the preface to introduce the necessity of studying lawyer profession autonomy. The second part of the paper is to discuss necessity of self-regulation of lawyers in China. The third part of the article discusses the defeats existing in the current system. The fourth part is to make a study on the lawyers-managing practice by local governments.The fouth part on the comparative study among China’s lawyer governance system and that of other countries. Finally, the article would discuss the solutions and proper direction to enhance the self-regulation of lawyers in China.