Legal culture theory

Author: Liu Zuoxiang
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Publish Date: 2001-04-01
Features: Legal culture is a macro-level new thinking in jurisprudence, permeating human legal practice. Legal culture is reflected both in the implicit legal ideology and in the explicit structural framework of legal systems. It is a legacy of historical culture as well as a contemporary human creation. Past generations created legal culture, and today people continue to develop it. Legal culture is a macro-level, holistic culture that integrates history and reality, macro and micro, static and dynamic, and ideas and institutions. In the 20th century, Chinese legal culture, following the transformation of Chinese society, underwent a historical transition and development from tradition to modernity, from closure to openness, and from unity to pluralism. It is now moving towards modernity. In the 21st century, Chinese legal culture will occupy an important position in the global legal culture system, becoming an indispensable and shining part of the diverse coexisting legal culture system.