浅析近代列强在华领事裁判权问题

摘要

第一次鸦片战争以来，诸多资本主义国家以中国法制不完备为由，强迫中国签订了一系列不平等条约并获得了所谓的领事裁判权，严重干涉了中国内政并践踏了司法主权。为了恢复司法主权，清政府及后来的中华民国政府做了种种努力，但由于资本主义国家的一再拖延，直至20世纪40年代才取消了领事裁判权。这一列强失去领事裁判权的过程也是中国从半封建半殖民地国家恢复国家独立、收回司法主权的过程。%After the First Opium War, many capitalist countries forced China to sign a series of unequal treaties and obtained the so-called consular jurisdiction on the grounds that the Chinese legal system was incomplete, which interfered in China’s internal affairs and trampled on the judicial sovereignty. The Government of the Qing Dynasty and the following ROC government made great efforts to regain the judicial sovereignty, but the capitalist countries did not abolish the consular jurisdiction until 1940s. China achieved national independence and regained judicial sovereignty after being a semi-feudal and semi-colonial country for a long time.