High-tech development and civil law system innovation

Author: Wu Handong
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: The new technological revolution that began in the 1970s is still in full swing. While it has greatly enriched people's material lives, it has also profoundly impacted people's living environment, lifestyles, and many other aspects, including the impact on traditional civil legal systems. This is reflected in fields such as basic civil law theory, personality rights law, property rights law, contract law, marriage and family law, and intellectual property law. Examples include the impact of biotechnology, particularly cloning technology, on human values and marriage and family law, the challenges posed by information technology to contract law and trademark law, and the confusion surrounding copyright protection methods and personality rights protection in the online environment. Additionally, in the context of high technology, the emergence of new phenomena such as integrated circuit layout designs, new plant varieties, and trade secrets has raised demands for legal protection. Changes in external social living conditions inevitably lead to the internal need for reforming legal concepts and related legal rules. Traditional civil legal systems are facing a revolution. As a regulator of social life, law should and can only adapt to the ever-changing social life by embracing an open mindset and philosophy. The way forward lies in conceptual reconstruction, conceptual renewal, and systemic restructuring, ultimately achieving institutional innovation. Based on the above considerations, this book comprehensively analyzes institutional changes, technological backgrounds, and the current dilemmas of existing systems, employing research methods such as comparative studies and economic analysis. It combines China's current economic development level and specific national conditions to propose highly operational legislative and judicial recommendations, while also outlining the future development trends of relevant legal domains.