Comparison of the Differences between Chinese and Western Legal Tradition 

Ying PAN 

Law School, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, 100088, CHINA 

Abstract: Legal tradition is an organic continuation of the characteristics of the legal aspects of the law. At present, our country is still difficult to completely get rid of the Chinese legal tradition and legal moderniza-tion of the tangle. From the differences of historical and traditional law on Chinese and Western China will have more differences in the legal form, legal technology and legal content. From the perspective of the judi-cial system and judicial process, there are obvious differences. In addition, in the West in the legal tradition of closed and open and the differences in the concept of litigation is also more obvious. Through the deep analy-sis of the causes of these differences, it can have a clear understanding of the Chinese legal tradition. 

Keywords: Legal tradition; China and the West; Differences; Comparison