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CHAPTER XIXTHE COMPARATIVE LAW SCHOOL OF CHINACharles W. Rank inOn September 3, 1915, Soochow University opened itslaw department under the name of The Comparative LawSchool of China, at No. 20, Quinsan Road, in the buildingsof the old Anglo-Chinese College, where the University alsoconducts a middle school.^ ne course ol? tlieLecturersdepartment is taughtwholly in English, and covers a period oPthree years. The following gentlemen, members of theShanghai bar, have been in part helping during the year1015-1916, and all have agreed to assist in giving instructionduring the year 1916-3917: Walter A. Adams, S. C. Chu,James B. Davies, Stirling Fcssonden, Win. S. Fleming,T. II- Franking, Hon. T. R. Jernigan, Maj. Chauncey1 Ilolcomb, Judge Charles S. Lobingier, Paul McRae,.Dr. H. C. Mei, Chas. W. Rankin, Joseph W. Rice, Earl B. Rose,and Dr. C. II. Wang.The school had its inception in the beliefthat Cllilia is del( ined to have a modernStutb^tiieSchool government, and in the knowledge that nomodern government can be constructed oroperated without large numbers of lawyers to form thejudicial arm. And it was also realized that not only werelawyers an essential in the establishment of the judicialdepartment, but that under the American system, most ofthe presidents, and a large percentage of the members ofCongress have been men of legal training. The Americasystem of government has been called by writers on politicalscience, a government of lawyers. While America has hadan ample supply of able and brilliant lawyers from amongwhom to draw her jurists and many of her statesmen,in China, because of the fact that lawyers have from timeimmemorial been looked upon with disfavour, the professionhas practically been suppressed. And now if it were desiredA 34