On the afternoon of November 15, 2017, the academic lecture “Legal Reforms in Modern Chinese History”, organized by the Department of Legal History of CASS Law Institute, was held in the lecture room of the Institute. The lecture was given by Professor Xu Lizhi, a research fellow of the Institute, presided over Professor Zhang Sheng, Head of the Department of Legal History of the itute, and attended by over a dozen doctoral candidates and masters students. In the lecture, Professor Xu gave an in-depth analysis of the legal reforms in modern Chinese history from the following three perspectives: the historical sources of the legal reforms in modern Chinese history and their assessment; the refutation of the argument that the legal reform in late Qing Dynasty had only form but no substance; and the criticism of the claim that the rnization of the legal system in late Qing Dynasty and early years of the Republic of China was divorced from the national conditions in China. After the lecture, Professor Xu exchanged views with the students on issues of common interests and answered the questions raised by them.