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2017年，党的十八届四中全会以依法治国为主题。之后，设立巡回法庭、清理执法考核指标、推行司法公开等跟法治有关的资讯不断，而“法治”自然成为近两年的一个热词。2017年全国两会召开在即，在各路媒体预测的两会看点中，有关“法治”的议题也占了相当的比重。不如我们今天就来预热一下，先从学习的角度谈一谈这个“法”字。 Numerous definitions of law have been put forward over the centuries. The Third New International Dictionary from Merriam-Webster defines law as: "Law is a binding custom or practice of a community; a rule or mode of conduct or action that is prescribed or formally recognized as binding by a supreme controlling authority or is made obligatory by a sanction (as an edict, decree, prescript, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, rule, judicial decision, or usage) made, recognized, or enforced by the controlling authority." 几千年以来，关于“法律”The Dictionary of the History of Ideas published by Scribner's in 1973 defined the concept of law accordingly as: "A legal system is the most explicit, institutionalized, and complex mode of regulating human conduct. At the same time it plays only one part in the congeries of rules which influence behavior, for social and moral rules of a less institutionalized kind are also of great importance." 斯克里布纳尔出版社在1973年出版的《思想史字典》由此将法律这一概念定义为：“法律体系是用于约束人类行为的最明晰、最成体系又最复杂的规则。同时，它又仅仅是影响人类行为的众多规则集合中的一个部分，因为，较为缺乏体系的社会和道德守则也是很重要的。” | 
