The Political Analysis of Law

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Hu Shuijun, The Political Analysis of Law, second edition, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2015.

This book carries out multi-dimensional analysis of and reflection on the basic theory, the modern characteristics, and the evolution of rights politics, as well as the ethical and humanistic criticisms faced by it in modern western society and the treatment it has received in China. It also analyzes and explains many ideas and views relating to theories of the modernity of law and the relations between law and society, such as those between ethics and rights, law and politics, governance and rationality, and tradition and modernity. By combining perspectives of the natural law, legal principles, and ethics, this book serves to deepen the understanding of the legal theory and the practice of the rule of law in China and, as such, is a useful reference for people from all walks of life, especially legal scholars.