First, select topics from social hotspots

Social hotspots refer to the common problems that society needs to solve, or the problems that members of society are generally concerned about. The solution of these problems can promote social progress. Whether the topic can meet the needs of all fields of society in a hurry reflects the author's academic conscience to some extent. Writing a law paper is not for the sake of writing a paper. Fundamentally speaking, it is to solve the problems of legal practice in social reality. The power of theory lies in the guidance of practice: a valuable legal paper should be able to respond to the questions raised by legal practice, solve the problems that cannot be solved by judicial and legislative practice departments, or provide theoretical ideas for solving these problems. Therefore, adapting to social needs is an important basis for choosing legal papers. The closer the topic is to the legal life of the real society, the easier it is to highlight its significance and value.

At present, China's legislative department is facing a large number of legislative problems such as legislative techniques and methods, and the judicial department is also facing many problems in the application of laws. In practice, legal researchers not only need to make corresponding theoretical responses, but also need to provide specific solutions. These urgent needs of legal practice not only provide great impetus for legal academic research and the topic selection of legal papers, but also provide a broad choice space. People who have a sense of the times and pay attention to the practice of rule of law in China have sufficient conditions to choose meaningful and valuable laws.

For example, in recent years, with the increasingly active circulation market of rural land contractual management rights, legal cases involving rural land circulation disputes have increased significantly, and the phenomenon of farmers petitioning for land circulation has become increasingly prominent. How to use laws to regulate the circulation of rural land contractual management rights and how to protect farmers' legitimate rights and interests in land circulation. This may be a good topic in legal papers. These topics are not only conducive to safeguarding the legitimate interests of farmers in a relatively weak position, but also conducive to maintaining rural stability and harmony. There are many social hot spots, as well as food safety, mass incidents, sudden disaster relief, production safety and other issues, all involving related legal issues. Selecting topics from these social hotspots will directly promote the solution of specific problems in legal practice. Will bring good social benefits. To choose a topic from social hotspots and the call of the times, we should strengthen the seriousness of choosing a topic and abandon the principle of randomness, which requires us to pay attention to three aspects: First, we should comply with policies and regulations. Do not write articles that violate laws and regulations; The second is to have a healthy and uplifting spirit. Good articles can cultivate sentiment, spur backwardness and inspire people to forge ahead. Third, it should have positive social significance. A good article is magnificent, based on reality, with an eye to the future, far-sighted and with a holistic mind. It can cure social ills, cultivate new social pine trees, and expand the social backbone, ultimately influencing and bringing up a generation or even several generations and ushering in a new era. Otherwise, the written paper will be abandoned by society.

2. Choose a theme from the academic blank

To have high academic value, a subject must still be an academic blank and need innovation. Either it is a topic that has not been broadcast or cultivated in this field, or it has not been discussed from a new angle, or it is a cross-integrated and marginal topic. A topic that has been written but not discussed from a new angle specifically includes three situations:

First, this field has not been sown or cultivated. Legal work is a practical activity to maintain social order, which develops and changes with the development of society. Legal problems that did not exist in the past may exist today; Problems that don't exist today may appear tomorrow. However, the emergence of any new legal problems is bound to have its clues. If we can grasp these clues keenly, the topic selection of legal papers can open up a brand-new field.

For example, in some places, with the deterioration of the ecological environment, the annual rainfall is decreasing, the wind blows and the dust is flying, which affects the normal production of industry and agriculture, and artificial rainfall technology comes into being. Corresponding new legal problems also arise: when artificial rainfall occurs, developers are building houses and farmers are drying wheat, who should compensate for the economic losses caused? Who has the right to weather modification? How should the right subject exercise this right? What are its responsibilities and obligations? By studying the legal problems caused by artificial rainfall, it undoubtedly fills the academic gap in legal research. This topic not only has high academic value, but also has strong application value. The second is the topic of old topics, new theories or new works. The existing academic theories or research results of jurisprudence reflect people's understanding of legal issues under specific time and space conditions, which is scientific to some extent. Reason. However, any understanding of truth is absolute and relative, and it has its scope and conditions of application. With the development and change of society and the broadening of research horizons, some legal theories may be biased, or show loopholes and doubts, or even turn from true to false under the new time and space conditions. If researchers pay attention to these problems, it is easy to find meaningful research topics and turn the omissions, flaws and defects in the original theory into fallacies.

In the academic research of law, many topics are old and often new. As long as the new meaning of the old topic is grasped, this topic is also worth digging and studying in depth. For example, the topic of commercial bribery in general is relatively old, but there are still concrete things in this old topic that can dig out new topics. For example, how to accept ivory and dinosaur eggs? How to determine the value of ivory and dinosaur eggs? The research of this topic has both practical significance and theoretical value.

Third, cross-synthesis, marginal topics. For example, criminal reconciliation has been put into practice in many places, and it is too outdated to choose a topic on its feasibility. However, if we study a topic about the cost-benefit analysis of criminal reconciliation from another angle such as economics, this topic will not only be outdated, but also be innovative. It is also of great academic value to enrich and develop the theory of criminal reconciliation. Therefore, it is a good way to choose a topic from the intersection of law and other disciplines. Engels once said that science is the most promising at the junction of two disciplines.

Choose a topic from my major and hobby

No matter how valuable the topic is in application or theory, it is inappropriate if the author is unable to complete it or can't complete it satisfactorily. Therefore, when choosing a topic, we should not only consider the necessity of its value, but also consider the possibility of its writing.

On the one hand, we should consider our professional knowledge and academic accomplishment. For the general legal researchers, it is unrealistic to have an in-depth study of a huge theoretical system of law, and they can only focus on one or several aspects of the legal subject on the basis of general understanding, thus forming their own research scope or special field. Through their own knowledge accumulation and in-depth study in a certain field, we can also clarify the remaining and controversial issues. What are the focus of controversy and the crux of the problem in my research field? What are the representative views of all parties in the debate? Are there loopholes in the current law? Which legal systems can no longer meet the needs of society and should be updated? What contents in the current legal system are vacant and need to be filled? What are the weak links and areas to be explored in the current legal field? What are the necessary and broad prospects for research? Wait a minute.

We should be aware of these problems. Only in this way can we be clear-headed, clear-headed, avoid the blindness of topic selection, give full play to the advantages of mastering relevant materials and our own academic potential and energy, and make in-depth research. On the contrary, if you are engaged in something you are not familiar with, even if it is valuable, you can only get twice the result with half the effort. However, this does not mean that we should give up when it is difficult, but we should have a topic that is likely to succeed through hard work.

On the other hand, we should consider our hobbies. Hobbies are the best teachers and an important internal motive force to promote people to carry out certain activities. They can arouse people's strong curiosity and thirst for knowledge, stimulate potential creativity, guide people to explore the mysteries of nature and society tirelessly, take pleasure in suffering, engage in creative activities with enthusiasm, and maintain strong fighting spirit until they complete their tasks and achieve their goals. Therefore, hobby is an important factor that must be considered in choosing a topic. Some people like to delve into micro issues, while others like to discuss macro issues. These differences in interests are reflected in legal research and thesis selection, which is naturally different. If we face up to this difference, we should pay attention to the fact that we are more interested in the intermediate field than in the unfamiliar field and are more likely to succeed.

4. Choose a topic according to my future development direction.

The purpose of writing a thesis is to bring good social benefits and social influence to the author himself. It is a quick and simple way for the society to know the author, and it is also an important way for the society to select talents. Many outstanding social figures have emerged, often paving the way for excellent papers. Because the article not only expresses the author's ideas, but also shows the author's talent and wisdom. To do this, we need to combine our own research expertise and future development when choosing the topic. I should take the topic selection of a paper as the starting point of long-term research work in the future, so that I may continue to expand in this field in the next few years and obtain new research results. The selection of this topic should not only consider the clustering and systematicness of the short-,medium-and long-term series of papers, but also further consider the primary, intermediate and advanced research level of this systematic topic, and make adjustments with the development of the times. Finally, a small or even large serial library is formed. Academic research focuses on specialization and profundity. Zhang Xuecheng, a Qing man, said, "If you are specialized in learning, you must have solid knowledge. They are all outstanding and self-reliant, and you cannot be a little erratic." Long-term commitment to the study of a problem can make you stand on your own feet in this field. Therefore, we should try our best to avoid changing the research field from time to time and change the research direction, otherwise it is not conducive to academic innovation. You must determine a certain field as your research scope according to your work needs and research conditions. By breaking through one difficult problem after another in this research field, you will gradually become an expert in this field and grow from it.

For example, if you plan to be a lawyer in the future, you can choose the topic of procedural law evidence or lawyer system and practice; Those who want to be judges in the future can choose topics such as judicial reform or judicial procedures. At present, the older generation of lawyers and young and middle-aged scholars who are active in China's legal field have become legal experts after decades of hard work and hard exploration in a certain legal academic field, which is not unrelated to the correctness of their scientific topics.