Twentieth Century Foreign Affairs Legal Theory and Practice

Author: He Qinhua, Editor-in-Chief
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Publishing Date: 2006-05-01
Features: From August 21 to 24, 2005, the 18th Annual Conference of the National Society for the Study of the History of Foreign Legal Systems was grandly held at the Provincial Military Region Guesthouse in Xining City, Qinghai Province, co-hosted by East China University of Political Science and Law and the Xining Municipal Government. In the field of legal theory and legal practice after modern times, criminal law has always been an important area. Based on this, Western developed countries have regarded the improvement of criminal procedural law systems as a fundamental component of building modern rule-of-law states. Especially in the dissemination and promotion of the four basic principles that embody the core concepts and value orientations of Western criminal law—presumption of innocence, nullification of criminal liability, proportionality of punishment, and humanity of punishment—significant efforts have been made, yielding numerous achievements. The 28 thematic papers and 9 special papers collected in this book are a preliminary introduction and review of these accomplishments. Since the 21st century, China has also strengthened the reform of its criminal legal system. Currently, the amendment of the criminal law is being carried out vigorously in response to the new situations and issues emerging in Chinese society.