This book adopts a comparative and empirical approach to the discussion relating to the subject matter. The book compares various selected topics in both China and Australia, drawing attention to historical, contemporary, and international characteristics. Also, in discussing the topics, the authors will conduct surveys and interviews to get first-hand materials and describe the real situations in both countries. To the best knowledge of the authors, this is the first time that this approach has been adopted to compare legal education and the legal profession focusing on China and Australia.

This book introduces legal education and the legal profession in China and Australia to lay a foundation based on which it further compares them. More importantly, this book discusses some selected topics relating to legal education and the legal profession in the context of globalization, the digital age, and COVID-19.

The intended readership is an international audience including students at both undergraduate and graduate levels, legal scholars, and legal practitioners in general, and those in China and Australia in particular.

This book intends to analyse the discourse of legal education and identify and create innovative ways of teaching and learning the law in China and Australia. It focuses on research, theory, and practice within legal education and the legal profession based on imaginative and sophisticated educational thinking from an empirical and comparative perspective. It also takes a broad view of theory and practice relating to legal education and the legal profession. It is sensitive to the diversity of contexts in which law is taught, learned, and practised.

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Dr Peng Guo is a lecturer in law at the Swinburne University of Technology. He has worked across several Australian universities and has held visiting positions at different European and Asian universities. He has received scholarships awarded by renowned research institutions and international organisations, including the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, and the European Union. He specialises in the international sale of goods, international commercial arbitration, comparative contract law, and law and technology.

Dr Jie Luo is an Associate Professor in Law School at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. She obtained an LLM at the University of East Anglia in 2004, a PhD in International Law at Wuhan University in 2008 and a PhD in Private Law at the University of Paris Sud in 2010. She was also an academic visitor to the University of Paris Sud Faculté Jean Monnet. Her main research interest lies in International Economic Law, with a focus on International Sales Law and WTO Law. She is the principal investigator for several research projects and has published several articles and books within those research areas.

Dr Shu Zhang is a senior lecturer in commercial law at the Deakin Law School, Deakin University (Australia) and one of the Editors in Chief of the Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration. Before joining the Deakin Law School, Dr Zhang was a post-doctoral fellow in the Chinese International Business and Economic Law Initiative, Law School, University of New South Wales (Australia). Her research interests include international commercial law, dispute resolution and international arbitration, law and technology, and comparative contract law. She is also admitted to practice in New South Wales, Australia. Dr Zhang obtained her PhD in Law from the University of New South Wales (Australia), and her LLM, LLB and BA in Economics (Double Degree) from Peking University (China). She has published various manuscripts in leading journals in this area, such as the Journal of Contract Law and China Quarterly.