Adaption to Local Conditions:Place-Specific Issues in the Functional Positioning and Implementation by Basic-Level People's Courts—From the perspective of legal geography
With the cessation of the pilot program for the"Improvement of the Functional Positioning of the Four-Tier Court System"launched in 2021,the current functional positioning of the courts at all levels seems to have shifted from a key issue in judicial reform to an existence without problems that does not require any change.However,in reality,they still face the need to further clarify their functional positioning,optimize power configurations,and highlight the value of due process in both trial functions and other functions.As primary judicial organs at the grassroots level,the basic people's court plays a crucial role in social governance,dispute resolution and the realization of judicial justice.At the same time,in a multi-ethnic country like ours with vast territory and large population,due to great regional differences and extremely unbalanced development level,basic courts in different regions often have obvious differences in case-handling capacity and case-handling personnel allocation.By employing legal geography,which focuses on the in-fluence and relationships between people,places,and law,we can reveal the local variations,characteristics,and optimization paths of the functions of basic-level people's courts in different regions.This can provide insights and references for improving the functional structure of basic-level people's courts.