苏力先生的《送法下乡》是一本利用基层实地调查的第一手资料写成的中国基层司法制度的书,首次出版十年后做了一些增补,由北京大学出版社出版,这本身就说明了该书的学术生命力。[1]虽然来自国内外一些学人批评的声音也不少,但批评也是一种价值的体现,说明值得去检讨和批评。赞扬的声音当然比批评的声音更响。拜读了这本大作,笔者从中受益良多,尤其是其中扎根实地的调查精神,很值得后学学习。在此,笔者对该书的长处和优点就不多说了,仅就一些笔者不能同意的地方、别人似乎未指出的书中的不足做点申论,请 Mr. Su Li’s “Law to Send to Countryside” is a book on Chinese grassroots judicial system using first-hand information from the field investigation. After the first publication of the book, some supplements were made and published by Peking University Press, which itself It shows the book’s academic vitality. Although there are also many voices of criticism from some scholars both at home and abroad, criticism is also a manifestation of value, indicating that it is worth reviewing and criticizing. Of course the voice of praise is louder than the voice of criticism. After reading this masterpiece, I benefit greatly from them, especially the factual investigation spirit which is worth studying later. Here, I do not say much about the strengths and weaknesses of the book, just for some of the author can not agree, others seem to have not pointed out the deficiencies in the book