讲座简介：

在著名中国法律史著作的《中国传统法律与社会》一书中，法律史学家瞿同祖先生对中国悠久的法律史与法律文化进行了令人信服的分析，扩展了中国法文化的影响。但很明显的是，有些课题还是是值得进一步研究的，本讲座就是想集中讨论中国过去的法律制度和文化，因为虽然有些问题已经持续了二千多年仍然影响我们，而另一些方面则通过巨大的变化影响我们。

虽然中国传统的法律制度在20世纪初随着清末的法制改革而正式结束，但传统制度的法律文化在中国的现代社会中仍然存在并将持续发生影响。例如，在一些特殊的案例中，人们使用这种传统的法律文化作为他们论点的来论证他们对于司法与正义的看法。正因为如此，我国当前的以完善司法推理为目标之一的司法改革也必须考虑到中国古代法律制度下的法律文化。

本讲座通过案例解剖将集中分析中国传统司法推理的利与弊，并指出这种认识对建设有中国特色社会主义法治。

China’s long legal history is cogently analysed by TUNG- TSU CH’U in the book Law and society in Traditional China. Obviously, there are topics deserving further research and in this talk I would like to focus on China’s old legal system and culture since some of their aspects last for more than 2000 years while others have been subject to some important transformations.

Although the old legal system formally ended with late Qing Dynasty’s legal reform at the beginning of the 20th century, the legal culture of the old system survived and is still alive in modern society in China. For instance, in some special cases, people use such traditional legal culture as a source of their arguments. And for this reason, China’s current judicial reform aiming to improve judicial reasoning also has to take into account the legal culture of the old legal system.

In this lecture, the benefits and drawbacks of judicial reasoning in traditional China will be analyzed，which will be argued also that such an understanding is also useful to build Rule of Law of Socialism with Chinese Characteristic.