李贵连先生是当代法学界较早开始关注沈家本的学者。早在1978年,尚在北京大学攻读研究生时,他就将沈家本与中国法律近代化作为自己的硕士学位论文的题目。1989年,他与导师张国华先生合编的《沈家本年谱初编》问世。同年,其独著《沈家本与中国法律现代化》出版,这是当代中国大陆地区 Mr. Li Guilian is a scholar who started to pay attention to Shen Jiaben earlier in contemporary jurisprudence. As early as 1978, when he was a graduate student at Peking University, he took Shen Jiaben and the modernization of Chinese law as the subject of his master’s degree thesis. In 1989, he and his tutor, Mr. Zhang Guowei editor of “Shen family early this year,” published. In the same year, its sole publication, “Publishing of Shen Jiaben and Modernization of Law in China,” was published in contemporary China