法律思维是按照法律的逻辑(包括法律的规范、原则和精神)来观察、分析和解决社会问题的思维方式。法律思维具有以合法性为前提的规则性思维、以权利义务分析为线索的平等性思维、形式合理性优于实质合理性以及程序性思维的特点。法律思维方式在法治背景下具有重要的现实意义。 Legal thinking is to observe, analyze and solve social problems in accordance with the logic of law (including the norms, principles and spirit of law). The legal thinking has the regular thinking based on the legitimacy, the equality thinking taking the analysis of the rights and obligations as the clue, and the formal rationality is superior to the substantive rationality and the procedural thinking. Legal mode of thinking has important practical significance in the context of rule of law.