Foreign Legal History

Author: Lin Rongnian
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: This textbook aims to elaborate on the content, essence, form, characteristics, and developmental patterns of representative legal systems in world history. It is divided into an introduction and 18 chapters. The introduction briefly discusses the research object, disciplinary system of foreign legal history, and its status and significance in China's legal system. Each chapter elaborates on the historical evolution, basic content, and main characteristics of different legal systems and national legal systems. Foreign legal history is an important foundational course in law. Learning and mastering the relevant knowledge of foreign legal history plays a crucial role in promoting the development of socialist rule of law in China. This textbook is primarily based on "Foreign Legal History," one of the "21st Century Law Series Textbooks" by Renmin University of China, and draws on important achievements from domestic and international textbooks. It is the result of summarizing the long-term teaching experience of the authors. Compared to previous textbooks, this one has three main features: , it discusses the topic based on legal systems as the main framework and the development of legal systems in typical countries as the thread, with a more concise and compact structure. Second, it places greater emphasis on summarizing the legal experiences of modern and developed countries, with more than two-thirds of the content covering modern and contemporary legal systems, and many chapters discussing the new developments in law since the late 1990s and even the early 21st century. Third, it adds several sidebars and illustrations to explain some important and complex issues in a concise and clear manner, making it easier for readers to grasp key knowledge points.