Foreign Legal History (National Planning Textbook for "The 15th Five-Year Plan" in General Higher Education)

Author: Lin Rongnian, Ye Qiuhua (editors)
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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 objects, 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, drawing on important achievements from domestic and international textbooks and summarizing the long-term teaching experience of the authors. Compared to previous textbooks, this one has three main features: , it discusses the 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 the content of modern and contemporary law accounting for more than two-thirds of the total volume. Many chapters cover the new developments in law from the late 1990s to 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.