{"title":"CHINESE NATURAL LAW TRADITION AND ITS MODERN APPLICATION: A RESPONSE TO HON . ROLLIN A. VAN BROEKHOVEN","authors":"Zhang Shoudong","doi":"10.3868/S050-007-018-0007-8","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article is a response to Morality And Law In A Global Society: A Place For Natural Law Theory? The first part is a summary and comments on Honorable Rollin A. Van Broekhoven’s survey of the natural law tradition and its relevance to the analysis of the controversial U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Then it addresses Mencius and the Chinese natural law tradition based on the researches of Hu Shih and John C. H. Wu, and the affinity of the natural theories of Mencius and Thomas Aquinas are explored. The third part analyses the sensational case of Yu Huan (2017) from the point of view of natural law and takes it as an example of the relevance of natural law to the theory and practice of contemporary Chinese law.","PeriodicalId":41655,"journal":{"name":"中国法学前沿","volume":"13 1","pages":"86-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2018-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"中国法学前沿","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3868/S050-007-018-0007-8","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"LAW","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article is a response to Morality And Law In A Global Society: A Place For Natural Law Theory? The first part is a summary and comments on Honorable Rollin A. Van Broekhoven’s survey of the natural law tradition and its relevance to the analysis of the controversial U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Then it addresses Mencius and the Chinese natural law tradition based on the researches of Hu Shih and John C. H. Wu, and the affinity of the natural theories of Mencius and Thomas Aquinas are explored. The third part analyses the sensational case of Yu Huan (2017) from the point of view of natural law and takes it as an example of the relevance of natural law to the theory and practice of contemporary Chinese law.
期刊介绍:
Frontiers of Law in China seeks to provide a forum for a broad blend of peer-reviewed academic papers of law studies, in order to promote communication and cooperation between jurists in China and abroad. It will reflect the substantial advances that are currently being made in Chinese universities in the field of law. Its coverage includes all main branches of law, such as jurisprudence, constitutional jurisprudence, science of civil and commercial law, science of economic law, science of environmental law, science of intellectual property, science of criminal justice, science of procedural law, science of administrative law, science of international law, science of legal history, science of history of legal thoughts, etc.