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SPECIAL SPEECH: COMMENTARY NOTES ON LORD NEUBERGER’S SPEECH： MISSION OF LAW AND AMBITION OF SCIENCE

SPECIAL SPEECH: COMMENTARY NOTES ON LORD NEUBERGER’S SPEECH： MISSION OF LAW AND AMBITION OF SCIENCE FRONTIERS OF LAW IN CHINA VOL. 11 DECEMBER 2016 NO. 4 DOI 10.3868/s050-005-016-0035-7 SPECIAL SPEECH COMMENTARY NOTES ON LORD NEUBERGER’S SPEECH： MISSION OF LAW AND AMBITION OF SCIENCE SHI Yan’an Justice Neuberger’s remarks inspire us to contemplate this old but unfamiliar topic on law and science again. Indeed, law is very different from pure science because law is more likely to construct rules of human society while pure science is just to describe and manifest rules of the universe containing human beings themselves and their behaviors. However, law study and law application shall be carried out with similar logic and reasoning approaches as science research. There is still a debate whether law (more accurately, law study) as a discipline is a part of science. In China universities, law falls into the social sciences with economics, business, public management, etc., and we have a somewhat weird term “science of law.” We can make a correct judgment only by giving a definition of science. However, science is not defined unanimously. If science is defined as a systematic enterprise building and organizing knowledge about this universe by applying measurable methods that can be tested repeatedly, law cannot be regarded as a part http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Frontiers of Law in China Brill

SPECIAL SPEECH: COMMENTARY NOTES ON LORD NEUBERGER’S SPEECH： MISSION OF LAW AND AMBITION OF SCIENCE

Yan’an, Shi
Frontiers of Law in China , Volume 11 (4): 3 – Feb 27, 2016
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FRONTIERS OF LAW IN CHINA VOL. 11 DECEMBER 2016 NO. 4 DOI 10.3868/s050-005-016-0035-7 SPECIAL SPEECH COMMENTARY NOTES ON LORD NEUBERGER’S SPEECH： MISSION OF LAW AND AMBITION OF SCIENCE SHI Yan’an Justice Neuberger’s remarks inspire us to contemplate this old but unfamiliar topic on law and science again. Indeed, law is very different from pure science because law is more likely to construct rules of human society while pure science is just to describe and manifest rules of the universe containing human beings themselves and their behaviors. However, law study and law application shall be carried out with similar logic and reasoning approaches as science research. There is still a debate whether law (more accurately, law study) as a discipline is a part of science. In China universities, law falls into the social sciences with economics, business, public management, etc., and we have a somewhat weird term “science of law.” We can make a correct judgment only by giving a definition of science. However, science is not defined unanimously. If science is defined as a systematic enterprise building and organizing knowledge about this universe by applying measurable methods that can be tested repeatedly, law cannot be regarded as a part

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