Imagine Law: History and Today

Author: Liu Xing
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: In this book, readers can find two main parts of content. The first is the changing role of law, and the second is the dynamic role of law. The collective authors of this book attempt to understand the meaning of law from both vertical and horizontal perspectives, from a dynamic perceptual experience. Additionally, the authors hope to see the big in the small and the small in the big, interpreting the mechanisms of law from the interplay of macro and micro perspectives.
Part one integrates the perspectives of legal theory and legal history, placing theory into history and history into theory. The other part demonstrates a universal understanding of law by dissecting individual cases from both historical and contemporary contexts. Grand theories have their functions, but law is a practical practice. In the context of law, grand theories must prove their legitimacy through the testing and scrutiny of concrete legal stories. Therefore, the writing of this part aims to advance the study of law within the practical character of legal practice.
The last article in the second part is Zhou Linbin's "Empirical Analysis of China's Private Remedies System—From Qualitative to Quantitative." This article can be considered the open-ended concluding piece of the entire book.