高职法律教育以培养适应社会实践需要的基层法律工作者为目标,是我国高等法律教育的重要组成部分。高职法律教育发展迅速,但在目标定位、人才培养模式、专业布局、就业质量等方面还存在许多不容忽视的问题。高职法律教育要求生存、求发展,就必须明确自身定位,积极探究应用型、技能型法律人才培养模式,加快教学改革步伐,走特色发展之路。 Higher vocational legal education to cultivate grass-roots legal workers to meet the needs of social practice as the goal, is an important part of China’s higher legal education. Legal education in higher vocational education has developed rapidly, but there are still many problems that can not be ignored in the aspects of target orientation, personnel training mode, professional layout and employment quality. In order to survive and develop in higher vocational legal education, we must clearly define its own position, actively explore the training mode of applied and skilled legal talents, accelerate the pace of teaching reform and take the path of distinctive development.