Perfecting the structure of Vietnam's legal system to meet the requirements of national development in the new era

Scene of the National Scientific Conference "Improving the structure of Vietnam's legal system to meet the requirements of national development in the new era", morning of November 1, 2025

Member of the Politburo, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Party Central Committee's Internal Affairs Commission Phan Dinh Trac; Member of the Party Central Committee, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Khac Dinh; Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long; Member of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Law and Justice Committee Hoang Thanh Tung; Member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Justice Nguyen Hai Ninh co-chaired the Workshop.

Attending the workshop were comrades representing leaders of central departments, ministries and branches, leaders and representatives of a number of provinces and centrally-run cities; experts, scientists, managers and practitioners.

Speaking at the opening of the workshop, Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long stated that the workshop is an important event, contributing to clarifying theoretical aspects, identifying practical issues, and referring to international experience to achieve the goal of making institutions and laws a competitive advantage, playing a leading role in national development.

The system of institutions and laws is an important factor that determines the success or failure of each country. In recent years, the Party and the State have always paid special attention to the work of building and perfecting institutions and laws, identifying this as one of the three strategic breakthroughs; issued and effectively implemented many policies, guidelines, mechanisms and innovative policies, improving the effectiveness of law-making and enforcement work and achieving many important results. In particular, we have issued Resolution 27 on building a socialist rule-of-law state and Resolution 66 on innovation in law-making and enforcement work. These are historic policies, guiding the development of Vietnam's legal system in the recent past and in the coming time.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long

Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long emphasized that Vietnam has established a basic and quite complete legal framework; the basic legal system meets the need to regulate social relations in most areas of social life with nearly 300 laws, codes, ordinances and many other sub-law documents still in effect.

The work of building and enforcing laws has been innovated in both thinking and working methods; shifting from a mindset that is somewhat inclined towards centralized management to proactive leadership, from handling each case to creating a long-term legal corridor. Many mechanisms and policies have been issued, promptly removing many "bottlenecks" in the legal system, handling many difficulties and obstacles in the development process.

The legal system has established a hierarchy between types of documents with a clear and appropriate basic legal effect hierarchy, helping to establish a legal order in regulating the behavior of subjects in society, ensuring the constitutionality and legality in the construction, drafting, appraisal and examination of legal documents.

Many modern legislative techniques have been adopted and applied in Vietnam such as: assessing policy impacts; consulting experts and people; ensuring compatibility with international treaties, taking into account the factor of harmonization with progressive legal practices in countries around the world, especially in areas such as civil law - economic - commercial, investment, intellectual property, competition, personal data protection, etc.

In addition to the achievements, Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long also pointed out that the work of building and perfecting laws still has limitations and shortcomings. Some of the Party's policies and orientations have not been institutionalized promptly and fully, or have been institutionalized but their feasibility is not high; the thinking of building laws in some fields is still inclined towards management; the quality of building and perfecting laws has not really met practical requirements, has not really created a truly favorable environment to promote innovation; decentralization, delegation of power, and digital transformation in building laws are still inadequate and have not received due attention.

Faced with the requirements of national development in the new period, the current legal system needs to be reviewed and evaluated to continue to improve both its content and structure in a modern and reasonable direction, ensuring coverage of emerging industries and fields and new development trends, contributing to building a synchronous, unified, transparent, feasible, and constructive legal system, building a favorable investment and business environment, ensuring the legitimate rights of people and businesses.

Emphasizing these requirements, the Deputy Prime Minister requested agencies, experts and scientists to participate, contribute opinions and propose initiatives for the process of continuing to build and perfect the legal system; focusing on discussing, clarifying the theoretical basis and foundation for perfecting the legal system structure to meet the development requirements in the new period. Are there any points that need to be supplemented or developed in the theoretical bases that we have used to build and perfect the Vietnamese legal system?

Botuphap (3) — Delegates attending the workshop

Along with that, assess the current status of the structure of Vietnam's legal system, clarifying: the coverage of areas of social life and the suitability with the requirements of innovation in law-making thinking; the full identification of legal sources or forms; the division of law into sectors and fields; the maintenance of discipline and order and the requirement to ensure the constitutionality and legality of legal documents; the relationship between national law and international law; legislative techniques and enforcement capacity.

“It is necessary to identify specific directions, solutions, and roadmaps for perfecting the structure of Vietnam's legal system to overcome limitations and shortcomings, and build a more complete legal system structure so that the State and entities can properly promote their roles, positions, and responsibilities in the country's development process,” the Deputy Prime Minister requested.

The workshop aims to contribute to determining the theoretical and practical basis to propose solutions to perfect the structure of Vietnam's legal system in the direction of ensuring full coverage of all areas of economic, political and social life that need to be regulated by law, streamlined, unified, synchronous, feasible, public, transparent, stable and accessible, meeting the requirements of rapid and sustainable development of the country in the new era, in the immediate period of 2026 - 2031 with a vision to 2045; as a premise to build a Strategy to build and perfect Vietnam's legal system in the new development period of the country. The results of the Workshop significantly contributed to completing the draft Project "Improving the structure of Vietnam's legal system to meet the requirements of national development in the new era" to be submitted to the Central Steering Committee on improving institutions and laws at the Steering Committee's meeting in December 2025, and at the same time contributed to building the Legislative Orientation for the 16th National Assembly term (2026 - 2031).

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