Challenges of legal modernization

Author: Gong Puxiang
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book is a collection of essays on the research of legal modernization. The entire work delves deeply into the fundamental theories of legal modernization, China's legal modernization, and the issues of judicial modernization. While the authors explore the operational mechanisms and inherent laws of legal modernization, they also emphasize applying the basic concepts of legal modernization to the field of judicial development, truly integrating theory and practice. Reading this book will undoubtedly benefit and enlighten legal scholars and practitioners concerned with legal modernization. The 23 articles included in this book are broadly divided into four parts based on the scope of their topics.
Part 1 contains 7 articles, aiming to interpret the legal and cultural thoughts of French Enlightenment thinkers, British classical political economists, and Marx's Eastern legal culture.
Part 2 features 5 articles that focus on the fundamental theoretical issues of legal modernization, covering the conceptual framework, analytical tools, and evaluation criteria of legal modernization, as well as the political mechanisms of legal development in the East and West, and the theoretical foundations of Eastern socialist legal development.
Part 3 includes 7 articles that revolve around the topic of China's legal modernization, examining the relationship between pre-modern Chinese law and the external world, three legal revolutions in China during the 20th century, the legal and cultural of early 20th-century China, and the interaction between internal factors and external shocks in the process of China's legal modernization.
Part 4 consists of 4 articles that offer preliminary analyses of the judicial mechanisms in traditional Eastern countries, particularly delving deeply into the judicial development of China since the 1949 revolution. It also conducts a specialized discussion on China's judicial reforms in the context of globalization, thereby tracing the trajectory and future direction of modernizing China's judicial system.