Abstract:  With its distinctive features, flipped classroom model (FCM) provides a new perspective and direction for the development of Chinese higher education, but its context-specific research is found scarce in Law Schools Hence, the jurisprudence FCM experiment was constructed and has been implementing for 18 weeks on the first-year students from a law school in 2016 The multivariable linear regression (MLR)-based analysis of participants′ academic outcomes indicates that the FCM substantially improves students′ academic achievements. But the increase mainly results from the improvement in the efficiency of conceptual cognition and knowledge construction, rather than the improvement of critical thinking and high-order learning as researchers previously assertedStudy also demonstrates that, individual learners′ prior language skills, intellectual skills and knowledge in the given discipline also significantly affect their academic gains in the context of the FCM Finally, suggestions are provided for the further integration of FCM with the law courses

Key words: flipped classroom model, jurisprudence, academic performance; MLR