“海瑞定理”是苏力始于2006年的一项研究。就发表的文章来看,这项研究的缘起是,作者不同意历史学家黄仁宇在《万历十五年》一书中对海瑞《兴革条例》中一段文字的分析及其影响甚广的关于中国传统司法乃至整个封建社会的推论(“传统中国‘以熟读诗书的文人治理农民’,法律的解释和 ”Hairui theorem “ is a research that Su Li started in 2006. According to the published articles, the author’s reasoning is that the author disagrees with the analysis of a paragraph of the text in the ”Xingkai Ordinance“ made by the historian Huang Renyu in his ”Wanli Fifteen Years“ book and its influence on The Chinese traditional judiciary and even the entire feudal society (”traditional China" to read the book of literati governance peasants’ interpretation of the law and