2004年9月20日至23日,由山西大学法学院与华东政法学院联合举办的全国外国法制史研究会第十七届年会在山西太原山西大学法学院隆重召开。来自全国50余个高校、科研机构、出版单位的90多名专家学者济济一堂,以“20世纪西方宪政的发展及其变革”为主题,就20世纪西方宪政的基本走势、20世纪西方立宪主义之曲折与回归、论宪法在私法秩序内的意义、各国宪法变迁方式比较、西方 From September 20 to September 23, 2004, the 17th Annual Conference of the National Seminar on Foreign Legal History, jointly organized by the Shanxi University School of Law and East China University of Political Science and Law, was held ceremoniously at the Law School of Shanxi University in Shanxi Province. More than 90 experts and scholars from over 50 universities, research institutes and publishing units in the country gathered together to discuss the basic trends of the constitutional development in the West in the 20th century and the Western constitutions in the 20th century, with the theme of "the development and revolution of Western constitutional government in the 20th century. Twists and turns of the doctrine of doctrine, the significance of the constitution in the private law, the changes of the constitutional changes of different countries,