Jurisprudence (Zheng Chengliang) Second Edition

Author: Zheng Chengliang, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 1999-06-01
Features: This textbook is uniformly organized and compiled by the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education for use in adult higher legal education across the country. Its purpose is to provide law students with scientific and systematic general theories of law, legal values, and legal methodology. To embody this purpose, the textbook organizes its topics into five aspects: Introduction, Ontology of Law, The Role, Value, and History of Law, The Operation of Law, and Law and Society. The main discussions include: the object and methodology of jurisprudence, the essence and characteristics of law, legal principles, rules, and concepts, the classification, sources, and authority of law, legal systems, rights and obligations, legal liability, legal relationships, and legal procedures. The role of law, the value of law, order, freedom, justice, and efficiency, the origin and historical types of law, the characteristics of the Civil Law System and the Common Law System, the creation and implementation of law, legal interpretation, formal and substantial legal reasoning, the rule of law state, the relationship between law and economy, politics, and morality, as well as legal consciousness and legal culture, and so on.