Abstract Many existing studies focus on disputes and resolutions but often overlook the transformation of disputes. Based on an analysis of case filing, this article explains how various factors of daily life enter the legal world through dispute formatting. When disputes are developed into lawsuits, the systematic logic of law and the logic of daily life constantly interact with each other. Dispute formatting appears at two stages: “internal filtering” and “external packaging”, which includes defining, naming, formalizing, and documenting disputes. The “filtering-packaging” mechanism is the key in dispute transformation. This mechanism demonstrates judicial procedures and conventions that mutually restrain and limit each other in their interactions, and to a certain extent facilitates the interchange and fusion between the legal world and real life.
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