從台灣人法學的觀點，
不管是德國法、美國法、或日本法，
適合台灣人民的都是好的法。
本書連結法學者、法學論述、政治與社會環境，本於歷史學、法律學、社會學的關懷，敘述台灣如何跨越3個世紀，經歷殖民、威權、民主等政體，彙整來自歐美日中的現代法學知識，建構出當下的法學內涵，並提出應超越歷史束縛的主張。另從東亞視角，描繪法學緒論著述所顯現的「明治日本→民國中國→戰後台灣」的知識傳遞及流變。
本書也是為新的一代台灣法律人打造的法學緒論著述，在法源論，揚棄過時而形同盲腸的成文法與不成文法概念；在法解釋適用論，以德式法釋義學汰舊換新，納入英美法系之法適用方法，且「看見」台灣的法事實，重構台灣版法學緒論。
Inspired by the disciplines in history, law, and sociology, this book links jurists, legal discourses, and political and social contexts to describe how the knowledge of legal science in Europe, the United States, Japan, and China has been compiled to shape the legal science in Taiwan which have experienced colonial, authoritarian, and democratic regimes from the late 19th century to current 21th century. The author thus proposes further reforms to transcend the historical fetters. In addition, from an East Asian perspective, this book depicts the line of legal knowledge transmission from Meiji Japan to Republican China, and then to post-war Taiwan, as shown in the treatises for introducing legal science. In order to create an treatise on the introduction of legal science for the new generation of Taiwanese lawyers, it is advisable to replace the old with the new when using the German-style theory of legal interpretations, and to incorporate the methodology of the application of law in the Anglo-American law, and more importantly to face, rather than ignore, the legal practices in current Taiwan for the purpose of reconstructing a Taiwanese version of the introduction of legal science.
王泰升
1960年出生於台灣台南市。專攻台灣法律史，西雅圖華盛頓大學法學博士。台灣大學講座教授、科際整合法律學研究所特聘教授，中央研究院台史所暨法律所合聘研究員，教育部國家講座主持人。曾任國科會法律學門召集人、台灣法學會理事長；曾獲教育部學術獎、國科會傑出研究獎3次、中研院人文社會學術性專書獎等。著有《去法院相告》、《台灣日治時期的法律改革》、《台灣法律史概論》等10餘本書，發表數十篇以華文、英文、日文、韓文、德文等刊出之論文。