Construction of the rule of law order

Author: Ji Weidong
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Publish Date: 2000-11-01
Features: "The Construction of the Rule of Law Order" is a comprehensive academic collection that covers a wide range of topics, is concise in content, and yet deeply rooted in real-world concerns. Based on a thorough review and reevaluation of China's inherent legal systems, cultural traditions, social transformations, and various theories and historical experiences of Western-style control-of-law governance, the book directly or indirectly proposes fundamental ideas for creatively constructing a democratic rule of law order under current objective conditions. The arguments are novel and challenging yet remain in their balanced judgment. Among the discussions, such as the programmatic revolution, the symbolic interaction of symbolic signs within an interpretive community, the operational solutions for political and legal reforms starting from the rationalization of judicial power, the scope of choice in Chinese trials, the Sphinx-like image of judges and its rejuvenation, the principle that reasoning is more important than substantive judgment, the diversification of legal systems and argumentative linguistic communication, the self-organizing mechanisms in relational societies, the reflective role of legal practice, the circular structure of legal ethics for lawyers, and using "postmodernism" as an auxiliary line to address modernization challenges, the author presents some of his key insights gained from years of academic research overseas.