沈家本(1840～1913):浙江归安(今湖州)人,24岁即进入刑部任郎中,开始接触律例。在职期间先后考取举人、进士。1902年,修律的重担落在了时任刑部左侍郎的沈家本身上,理由是“刑部左侍郎沈家本,久在秋曹,刑名精熟”。这位中国近现代法学的奠基人,主持了清末的修订法律,开启了中、西方法律嫁接的先河,启动了中国法律现代化的进程。 Shen Jiaben (1840 ~ 1913): Zhejiang Guian (now Huzhou) people, 24-year-old entered the penalty department Ren Langzhong, began to contact the law. During his tenure has been enlisted, scholars. In 1902, the burden of cultivation fell on Shen Ji himself when he was the deputy minister of criminal penalties on the grounds that “the minister of punishment is Shen Jiaben, a long time in the autumn of Cao, and he is familiar with criminal names.” The founder of modern Chinese law, which presided over the revision of laws in the late Qing Dynasty, opened the precedent for the grafting of Chinese and Western laws and started the process of law modernization in China.