Walking with the Civil Code. Volume 1: The Development of Civil Law and the Future of Civil Law in China

Author: Wang Liming
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: This book is a compilation of recordings from the author's lectures over the past five years at various institutions such as their own university, affiliated institutions, and courts. In the field of law, publishing lecture recordings or transcripts has positive significance: on one hand, although lecture transcripts tend to be more colloquial, good ones are often easy to understand and engaging, making them more accessible to readers than academic monographs. On the other hand, speakers often address major and cutting-edge issues in academic or judicial practice, making their lectures highly targeted. Compared to systematic academic monographs, the content of lectures is more focused and concise, allowing listeners to better grasp the essence of the speaker's academic insights and the agility of their thinking. Most importantly, while high-quality academic monographs are indeed needed to delve deeply into and meticulously explore cutting-edge issues in legal theory, the author believes that, to some extent, it is also necessary to adopt certain methods to popularize legal concepts, particularly those of civil law, among the public, enabling them to actively participate in our rule-of-law construction efforts. Thus, lecture works are also needed by society. This small book dedicated to readers somewhat records some of the author's lecture content from various parts of the country over the years, or perhaps it can be said to document the author's and fragments of civil law thinking in recent years. However, the book is not arranged in chronological order of the lectures, as doing so would inevitably lead to repetition and lack of organization. Therefore, in terms of its structure, although this is a collection of lecture works, it is still organized by certain thematic sections to facilitate reading.