Legal Education and Its Role in Strengthening Legal Culture: A Comparative Study of Kazakhstan and China

Abstract

Against the backdrop of deepening China-Kazakhstan cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative, legal culture, as the core of the rule of law, relies heavily on legal education for inheritance and development. This study aims to explore the role of legal education in strengthening legal culture and address the gaps in existing comparative studies between China and Kazakhstan. Adopting a mixed research method combining questionnaire survey and interviews, it systematically compares the characteristics, paths, and effects of legal education in the two countries, and identifies the core factors affecting the role of legal education. The core innovation lies in the systematic quantitative and qualitative comparative analysis of the interaction between legal education and legal culture in the two countries, breaking the limitations of existing qualitative studies. The results show that legal education in both countries has a significant positive impact on legal culture, but there are differences in the effectiveness of different paths, providing a theoretical basis and practical reference for optimizing legal education and promoting legal culture exchange between the two countries.