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能够在梅因和波洛克曾经讲学的地方发表演讲,对我而言简直诚惶诚恐。我非常清楚自己的许多不足。如果说我能鼓足勇气站上演讲台,那是因为我相信慷慨地邀请我到此讲学的牛津大学,会像对待上述两位前辈那样,本着同样的自由精神来支持我做这个讲演。如果容我先做一个自我评价,我想说的是,正是英国社会中强烈吸引国外研究者兴趣的种种特征,尤其是它的法治精神和自由精神,促使我开始了英国法的研究。和其他学者一样,开始我研究的是政治制度,但是后来不知不觉转向了法律史与社会史的
Being able to speak in a place where Maine and Pollock once gave lectures was trepidation to me. I am very aware of many of my own shortcomings. If I can summon the courage to stand on the podium, it is because I believe that generously inviting me to Oxford University to give lectures will support me in this same spirit of freedom as I did to the two predecessors. If I first make a self-evaluation, what I want to say is precisely the characteristics of British society that strongly attract the interest of foreign researchers. In particular, its spirit of the rule of law and its spirit of freedom have prompted me to begin the study of English law. Like other scholars, I began to study the political system, but then unknowingly turned to the legal history and social history