FD Review

Author: Fang Liufang
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Publish Date: 2001-09-01
Features: Law is a highly practical discipline, yet it is also highly theoretical and dialectical. The Law Department of China University of Political Science and Law places special emphasis on both practical training and the development of students' legal skills while also giving particular attention to legal theoretical issues. The integration of theory with practice has always been advocated as a scholarly ethos, and it should continue to be emphasized. At the same time, academic research has a natural division of labor. As the main body of academic research, scholars have their own starting points and motivations when determining their research fields and methods. The connection between distance legal research and the development of the real legal system involves multiple indirect transformations, which may manifest as intricate or subtle. Some topics may have no connection at all with the real legal system. Scholars determine their research topics and apply their wisdom, either out of a sense of social responsibility to improve the existing legal system and promote judicial fairness, or out of pure academic interest and an insistent investigative nature. The latter's expectations for the value of research do not lie in its practicality but in its academic significance.