There is an inherent connection between legal dogmatics and the rule of law. On the one hand, a brief investigation into the history of ideas shows that legal dogmatics can be understood from two perspectives, i.e., legal dogmatics as knowledge and legal dogmatics as method. On the other hand, the minimum concept of the rule of law includes two elements. In terms of its value goal, it takes the certainty of law as its constitutive element; and in terms of its institutional goal, it takes the existence of a coherent legal system as its basic condition. Legal dogmatics as a method can both enhance the certainty of law and help to construct a coherent legal system, and therefore is of great importance to any type of rule of law. China, in the construction of the rule of law, should develop its own system of legal dogmatics, which means that it should not only promote research on legal methodology and general legal doctrine at the level of doctrinal methods, but also combine case law studies, custom explorations and codification of law commentaries at the level of doctrinal knowledge, so as to construct a doctrinal knowledge system with Chinese characteristics. |