Course Principal: Ma Zhibing(Professor, Director of Legal History Research Center, CUPL)

Courseintroduction: History of Chinese Legality is a specialsubject within the realm of Humanities and Social Sciences, characterized bythe interdisciplinary nature spanning Law and History. It is a basiccomprehensive subject of legal studies, and an important ramification ofhistory. A course devoted to systemic investigation of the legal history inChina, it takes as its subjects the variegated legal systems and orders ofvarious periods in Chinese history. The word various means that the coursecovers the entire historical process regarding the germination, formation,development, maturation, perfection and elimination of legal systems and orderssince ancient times. The word variegated means that it encompasses legislation,enforcement, justice and conformity of all sorts of departmental laws orspecial laws since the advent of legal systems and orders.