Abstract:

Legal thinking is an important precondition for college students to participate in modern society governance. With talent development as their major task，colleges and universities should take the cultivation of students’legal thinking as a part of law-related education. College students’legal thinking involves many factors，such as their knowledge，feeling and belief about law etc. Students should obtain the cognitive basis of legal thinking by knowing laws，comprehend the sacred sense of rule of law by abiding by laws，and enhance their identification with law by using laws. Currently，developing students’legal thinking in colleges and universities failed to yield satisfactory fruits. The main problems are as follows: lack of systematicness and chronicity，lack of diversity and pertinence，and lack of democracy and permeability. So，colleges and universities should actively explore the methods of legal thinking cultivation，and guided by the“student-oriented”and“law-oriented”concept， emphasize both classroom teaching and social practice. They should also improve top design in cultivating system in order to lay a solid foundation for developing students’legal thinking.

Key words: colleges and universities, college students, legal thinking, legal culture, quality-oriented education