CSSN-Socio-Legal Studies to facilitate China’s transformation

Socio-Legal Studies to facilitate China’s transformation

Author : Source : Chinese Social Sciences Today 2016-08-15

The first Annual Conference of Socio-Legal Studies in China was held by the Association of Socio-Legal Studies at the Shanghai Law Society from July 29 to 30 in Shanghai. Themed “New Visions of Law and Society,” around 200 scholars of legal studies and sociology from across the nation attended the conference. The domestic social sciences since the 1980s revived by relying on foreign experience, and later China started exploring its own path, said Li Hongyan, deputy editor-in-chief of Social Sciences in China Press. Great achievements have been made in academic domains like socio-legal studies by shifting emphasis to local issues and extrapolating lessons from China’s development experience, he said. Such topics as the reform of China’s judicial system and the influences of social structure and social reality on the drafting of China’s Civil Code were explored at the conference.

Editor: Yu Hui