Chinese-German Collection of Legal Academic Papers (Volume 1)

Author: Center for German Law, China University of Political Science and Law
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: As one of the main representatives of the civil law system, the German legal system has had a significant and profound impact on the legal systems of many countries in the modern world. The basic orientation of the legal reform in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China was to adopt the civil law system, particularly the German legal system as a model. Therefore, the modern Chinese legal system has always been based on the civil law system from the beginning and has been influenced by German law in many aspects. In recent years, with the continuous development of China's reform and opening-up and foreign exchanges, the connections and exchanges between China and Germany have become increasingly frequent, widespread, and in-depth in various fields. Especially in the legal field, China and Germany have carried out active and fruitful legal exchanges at the government level through the "Dialogue of the Rule of Law State." At the same time, legal scholars from China and Germany have been engaging in increasingly extensive and in-depth dialogues and exchanges in the field of law, thereby changing the situation where Chinese legal academia, after the reform and opening-up, had an unconscious bias toward Anglo-American law. This has allowed more advanced legal techniques, systems, and ways of thinking of the contemporary European civil law system to be transmitted to China. This change undoubtedly will provide China's legal modernization with the wisdom of listening to both sides. Against this background, the Center for German Law, China University of Political Science and Law, successfully held the "China-Germany Academic Conference on Law" on October 8-9, 2001, at the China-Germany Science Center in Beijing. This was the first large-scale international academic conference held since the center's establishment. Nearly 200 experts and scholars from Germany and dozens of experts and academics from Beijing's legal circles gathered to engage in extensive and enthusiastic academic exchanges and discussions on a wide range of topics, including human rights, human law, legal history, debt law, property law, criminal law, and administrative law. This book collects the academic papers submitted by nearly 200 experts and scholars from Germany and Beijing's legal circles at the "China-Germany Academic Conference on Law" held in Beijing on October 8-9, 2001, covering topics such as human rights, human law, legal history, debt law, property law, criminal law, and administrative law. This book not only meets the expectations of academic peers but also will be of great benefit to further research and discussion in academia.