Foreign Legal History (Second Edition)

Author: Lin Rongnian
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: This textbook is formed on the basis of drawing on the main achievements of previous textbook development and summarizing the long-term teaching experience of the authors. Compared with previous textbooks, this textbook has two main characteristics: , its structure and format are more concise and compact. It no longer arranges the content according to the traditional "four major blocks" of ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary, to avoid artificially cutting off the content; nor does it follow the format of "general overview" and "detailed discussion" to avoid content repetition. Instead, it discusses the legal systems primarily based on the main framework of legal systems and the development of legal systems in typical countries. Second, it places greater emphasis on summarizing the legal experience of developed countries in modern times. In terms of word count, the content of ancient and medieval law accounts for less than one-third of the total volume, while the content of modern and contemporary law accounts for more than two-thirds of the total volume, with many chapters covering the new developments in law since the late 1990s. The main target audience for this textbook is undergraduate and graduate students, dual-degree students, night university students, correspondence students, and self-study examination undergraduate and graduate students in law majors across various higher education institutions. The authors of this textbook include not only teachers from Renmin University of China but also several experienced teachers from China University of Political Science and Law and the Chinese People's Public Security University. When this textbook was revised in 2006, the preface and each chapter were modified to varying degrees.