Sun Yat-sen University Law Review (Volume 5)

Author: Liu Xing
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: [Special Contribution · Frontier] "The Current State and Future of Chinese Law and Economics" analyzes eight shifts in the research focus of Chinese law and economics today, revealing the development patterns of Chinese law and economics. [Thematic Essay · Analysis] "Some Legal Considerations on Establishing a Pollution Permission Trading System in China" draws on the experiences of developed Western countries and combines with China's specific conditions to analyze the necessity and feasibility of establishing a pollution permission trading system in China, specifically exploring several legal issues in constructing such a system in the country. The main feature of this issue of the legal review is its emphasis on reviews, i.e., critiques of the papers in the review. We believe this is entirely appropriate. While writing legal essays is undoubtedly challenging, once they are published, without the rigorous discussion and even genuine academic criticism they deserve, the essays may well be forgotten. There are now many book reviews, with various approaches and styles, even in formal journals and books, to the point where they are abundant. However, there are far too few critiques of essays, as if essays are less important than brick-and-mortar works. Yet, as everyone knows, the significance of essays is paramount, especially since modern works are often collections of essays, designed for the secondary circulation of opportunity costs. Should we correct this phenomenon? Naturally, we dare not hope that essays with reviews will be remembered by readers or that reviews of essays will be appreciated. But we do hope and believe that the dialogue between essays and reviews, as well as the intellectual collisions within them, will, at some point in the future, bring readers recollections, the charm of dialogue and collision should be enduring.