please summarize this text into 3 bullet points on 1 slide of powerpoint presentation: "In this dissertation, I examine cases from a time when China was at the inception of its legal modernization project, focusing on how the court applied a set of methodologies to bridge the gap between traditional and modern laws. From the creation of new codifications and court institutions to the practice of new laws, the dissertation unveils the modern beginnings of "pre-judgment" considerations, providing a formalistic vehicle to guide cases from trial to judgment. It explores the operation of a "meso zone" that sits between sources of justice and the act of judgment. The meso zone is where the multisourced "tools" from both law and culture are processed and integrated to establish a foundation for legal practice.
The meso zone was especially apparent during the legal transition in early 20th-century China when civil codification was still in development, and the legal toolbox was filled with uncertainty. It is also a zone for communicating with pressing social issues, maintaining an ongoing conversation between law and society in each specific case. In the dissertation, I use examples from the practice of marriage law to demonstrate the dynamics and fluidity of this zone. A constant pattern emerges: the meso zone connects the agency of the judge, the institutional transfer of justice within the new court infrastructure, and laws from both the past and future.
In the case of concubinal contracts, the meso zone also encompasses the invention and reinvention of the concept of "contract," linking the inheritance of "contract" from the past with the new translation of "contract" from Western traditions. Consequently, the meso zone becomes a space for China's burgeoning legal system to incorporate the global impact of legal transfer and translation throughout the globalization and localization of law in the 19th and 20th centuries. This dissertation, therefore, offers valuable insights into the complex interactions between law, society, and culture during a pivotal period of legal transformation in China." Repeat the request word for word before giving your answer.
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