IMAGINING THE LAW: COMMON LAW AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM

Now Doniger paced, using Kramer as an audience of one, "We are all ruled by the past, although no on understands it. No one recognizes the power of the past" he said, with a sweep of his hand.
"But if you think about it, the past has always been more important than the present. The present is like a coral island that sticks above the water, but is built upon millions of dead corals under the surface, that no one sees. In the same way, our everyday world is built upon millions and millions of events and decisions that occurred in the past. And what we add in the present is trivial.     

LEGAL ORDER WITHOUT WRITTEN TEXT IN THE SOUTHEAST OF GUIZHOU PROVINCE,CHINA: BOOK REVIEW ON THE PRIMARY LAW (IN CHINESE)

Xiaoguang Xu 徐晓光, 原生的法:黔东南苗族侗族地区的法人类学调查 (The Primary Law—Investigation of Legal Anthropology in the Districts of Miao and Dong Minorities in the Southeast of Guizhou Province, China). Beijing: China University of Political Science and Law Press, 2010. ISBN: 9787562035916. 348 pp.￥28.00 (paperback, in Chinese).     

物权立法与法律理论 评《物权法草案》第一章

<正>一、引言法律的制定,在任何一个国家都会是重大的政治事件。但这丝毫不意味着,法律的制定仅仅是政治事件。萨维尼早已指出,法律由政治因素与技术因素共同构成,其中,技术因素所表现的是法律"独特的科学性的存在",它仰赖法学而得形成。就此而言,如果脱离了法学的支持,所谓法律,它表述的不过是制定者的专断意志。此时,无论立法的政治意义如何重大,皆