Major in ‘ Leisure Activites’ at the University, Become a Chinese Judge…

This article from The Hindu, is about the Indians lauditing the Chinese system for choosing judges and how that works. First off who in their right mind studies the judicial system in China as a benchmark- Sudan, North Korea? The article correctly states that in China one does not have to major in law to be a judge. The article sees this as a positive. Hmmm, I majored in econ, and fail to see how that would have qualified me to sit on the bench in judgment of pressing legal matters at the tender age of 23, but then again, most trials in China are nothing more than a rubber stamp of a decision the party has already made….

from here
“Further, one need not be an advocate to become judge, as the qualification for taking the NJE is graduation in any discipline including mathematics, a visiting delegation of the International Council of Jurists (ICJ) was told.”