Legal Studies Curriculum: A 21st Century Curriculum Textbook

Author: Zhou Wangsheng
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: This book systematically establishes the basic framework of the discipline of legislative studies, comprehensively and deeply elaborating the three major elements of legislative principles, legislative systems, and legislative techniques within this framework. The author reveals that legislative studies is a discipline that combines numerous advantages of both theoretical and applied law. It clarifies that the achievements of legislative studies have direct practical value, making it applied law from the perspective of theoretical law, while these achievements can guide legislative processes toward scientific development, making it theoretical law from the perspective of applied law. It demonstrates that the development of legislative studies can provide positive and fruitful experiences and insights for enhancing the theoretical nature of applied law and improving the practical value of theoretical law. The overarching purpose of the book is pursued through two aspects: first, it focuses on exploring and elaborating on fundamental issues in legislative principles, systems, and techniques, helping students of legislative studies systematically master the basic categories, knowledge, and theories of the discipline, thereby filling the gaps in the legal knowledge structure; second, it emphasizes proposing, researching, and elaborating on a series of major new issues urgently needing resolution in China's legislative theory and practice, focusing on exploring, researching, and clarifying the basic knowledge, theories, and skills of creativity, decision-making, and operation in the legislative process from the perspective of China's national conditions, thereby directly serving the legislative practice of legislative bodies and personnel. This book is meticulously written based on the author's previous series of works and textbooks on legislative studies, serving as an important work reflecting the author's past and current research achievements in legislative studies.