What books should I read first if I want to teach myself law?

1, West Window Rain (Liu Xing)

This book rambles on western legal culture and comments on seemingly handy legal phenomena in a friendly, homely, peaceful and humorous way. It talks about the legal and cultural phenomena in the West, but it always inspires China people's legal consciousness and concept of rule of law, and arouses readers' thinking and thinking about China without trace.

The article is short and pithy. By telling stories, readers can unconsciously realize the author's frontier and frontier research experience. In this argument, they can enter the wisdom world of law and enjoy the fun of wisdom.

2. Political and Legal Notes (Feng Xiang)

This book is a column written by Mr Feng Xiang in Reading. It tells the story of the rule of law in China, from Confucius' reputation right, Lu Xun's portrait right, premarital property notarization, naming with uncommon words, sexual bribery, portrait of human body to copyright and American election. Involving all aspects of intellectual property rights, as far as the article is concerned, it can be called the pinnacle of China's legal thesis writing.

These articles have completely changed our traditional "concept of popularizing law" and influenced a realistic context through scholars' speeches in order to popularize law.

3. Private Criminal Law School (Zhang Mingkai)

When Mr. Zhang Mingkai instructs students, he will choose difficult cases in criminal law to discuss with students every weekend. Through case discussion, he will train students' ability to analyze and solve problems. This book is a collection of the contents of the "weekend criminal law seminar" between teachers and students in Zhang Mingkai in recent years.

In the form of dialogue, this book truly replays the scene of the criminal law seminar. Reading this book is like visiting a teacher-student seminar in Zhang Mingkai, studying criminal law with Zhang Mingkai, and analyzing and handling difficult cases like an expert.

4. On the Spirit of Law (Montesquieu)

Montesquieu, the author of this book, lived on the eve of the French Revolution. The situation in France at that time was: political monarchy, people's lack of freedom, and their rights were often violated. In the social structure, it is divided into three levels. The church is the first rank, the nobility is the second rank, and the bourgeoisie and working people are the third rank.

The third layer has no power and influence, and is oppressed by the first two layers. Economically, the excessive expropriation of the third class, on the one hand, plunged the working people into extreme poverty, on the other hand, seriously hindered the development of capitalist industry and commerce.

5. Strange Cave Case (Peter Szabo)

This book tells the story of five cave explorers trapped in caves and unable to be rescued in a short time. In order to survive and rescue, everyone agreed to draw lots to eat one of them and sacrifice him to save the other four.

With the help of this hypothetical case, it actually reflects the philosophy of law of various schools in the 20 th century. The Cave Mystery is not only a fable classic in the field of legal philosophy, but also an ideal reader for interdisciplinary general education in universities. Cave Mystery is suitable for readers who are interested in serious and meaningful arguments instead of being keen on labeling opinions or exploring fantasies.

6. Best defense (Allen dershowitz)

Known as "the most successful defense lawyer in contemporary America", Del Shawitz recorded more than a dozen most controversial and influential cases he represented in this book, and described the story background and litigation process of the cases in simple terms.

The book is full of twists and turns, skillful defense skills, wonderful defense scenes and unexpected litigation endings. Every fascinating case is like a Hollywood blockbuster in the reader's mind.