A Study Of Wu Tingfang's Legal Thought

Wu Tingfang is the first person in the late Qing Dynasty system to accept the western modern law education and obtain the qualification of lawyers.At the same time,he has long served in the Qing court,the official to two items.In the "New Deal in the Late Qing Dynasty",he was appointed by the Ch'ing court as a minister of law and was directly involved in the "revision movement" to promote the modernization of China's legal system and made important contributions.Wu Tingfang proficient in Chinese and foreign law,is a famous modern legal reformers.At the end of the Qing Dynasty as the revision of the Minister of Law,presided over and participated in the revision of legal work,the introduction of modern Western legal ideas and practice throughout the activities of the traditional Chinese legal system for a comprehensive deletion and innovation,and thus changed the inherent traditional Chinese legal system Face,in a certain sense,declared the traditional legal system of the historic end,to promote the Chinese legal system out of the Middle Ages,towards modernization.On the basis of summarizing the main ideas of Wu Tingfang 's law and the legal thoughts embodied in the law,this paper analyzes and evaluates the historical status of Wu Tingfang' s legal thoughts.Trying to start from the three periods of Wu Tingfang,combined with Wu Tingfang's personal experience and the background of the times,in depth to show Wu Tingfang legal thought of the ideal and practice.Wu Tingfang long-term study and work in the capitalist countries of Europe and the United States,which makes his legal thinking,whether in the late Qing Dynasty or the early days of the legal system are in the forefront of contemporaries,the legal achievements of a groundbreaking,forward-looking features The Of course,due to the limitations of history,Wu Tingfang in the study,transplantation of European and American law,there have been some difficult to fit the shortcomings of China's national conditions.Historical and objective analysis of Wu Tingfang's legal thought,not only can correctly understand the historical position of its legal thought,but also to the current legal system to a useful inspiration.