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Second Session of Unirule Western Classics Reading Club 2016 Held
 
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April 23rd, the second session of Unirule Western Classics Reading Club 2016 was held at Unirule Beijing Office. The topic of this session was “Liberty and Rule of Law.” The speakers are Professor WANG Jianxun, Professor Ningyue, and Professor XU Xin and Mr. WU Si joined the discussion.

 

Professor WANG Jianxun distinguished private law and public law, and he claimed that “agreement” in the private law equaled to laws in general terms. This is the principle of self-governing of private law. In this area, agreements are not constrained by public law. When it comes to promoting self-governing in a more general sense, Professor WANG said, “it should be done from the bottom up, from the small communities, to advocate for the self-governing.”

 

 

In the morning, discussion was held on Hayek’s Law, Legislation and Liberty, Bruno Braccioni’s Freedom and the Law, and Lon L. Fuller’s The Morality of Law. Professor Ningyue pointed out that Hayek thought law was general and abstract, and it applies to everyone. Rule of law is also considered the rule of regulations. Hayek thought law is the decent conduct code that regulates human interaction. Professor Ningyue also mentioned the two kinds of moralities:”One as the expected morality, and the other as the obligatory morality.” Professor Ningyue also referred to Confucianism and claimed that if it requested everyone to be morally perfect, there may be a lot of hypocrites.

 

In the afternoon conversations, Mr. WU Si and Professor XU Xin joined the audience in discussing “The Hidden Rules and the Society of Rule of Law” and “How to Promote the Rule of Law with Legal Practices.” Several topics are raised around these two subjects, such as the freedom and rights, the freedom of speech.

 

 

At last, Professor Ningyue summarised and said that, the hidden rules regulate the behaviours of surrogates. When they represent the interest of their clients, such hidden rules, or unarticulated rules may vary and amount to big numbers. Douglas North’s book on institutions and regulations are quite relevant in understanding this issue.

 

 

 

 




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