The evolution of law reform in China [electronic resource] : an uncertain path / Stanley B. Lubman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lubman, Stanley B.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing.

Lubman, Stanley B., 1934-

Series:

Elgar research reviews in law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law reform--China--History--20th century.

Law reform.

Law reform--China--History--21st century.

Law--China.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 v.) ; cm.

Other Title:

Evolution of Law Reform in China

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd., 2012.

Summary:

This timely research review presents articles written by Chinese and Western authors on law reform in the People's Republic of China from its beginning in 1978 until the present day. The first part presents differing perspectives on the history of law reform. Separate sections are devoted to core institutions: the Constitution, the legislature, administrative law, courts, criminal process, the legal profession, extra-judicial dispute resolution and citizen petitions.

Contents:

Recommended readings (Machine generated): Donald C. Clarke (2008), 'Legislating for a Market Economy in China', in Donald C. Clarke (ed.), China's Legal System: New Developments, New Challenges (The China Quarterly Special Issues, New Series, No. 8), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 13-31

Xianchu Zhang (2008), 'Commentary on "Legislating for a Market Economy in China"', in Donald C. Clarke (ed.), China's Legal System: New Developments, New Challenges (The China Quarterly Special Issues, New Series, No. 8), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 32-35

Jianfu Chen (2008), 'Experience of Law in the PRC', in Chinese Law: Context and Transformation, Chapter 2, Leiden, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 39-76

Cai Dingjian (1999), 'Development of the Chinese Legal System Since 1979 and its Current Crisis and Transformation', Cultural Dynamics, 11 (2), July, 135-66

Benjamin L. Liebman (2009), 'Assessing China's Legal Reforms', Columbia Journal of Asian Law, 23 (1), Fall, 17-33

Jerome A. Cohen (2008), 'China's Reform Era Legal Odyssey', Far Eastern Economic Review, 171 (10), December, 34-8

Wang Chenguang (2010), 'From the Rule of Man to the Rule of Law', in Cai Dingjian and Wang Chenguang (eds), China's Journey toward the Rule of Law: Legal Reform, 1978-2008, Chapter 1, Leiden, The Netherlands and Beijing, China: Koninklijie Brill and Social Sciences Academic Press, 1-50

Thomas E. Kellogg (2009), 'Constitutionalism with Chinese Characteristics? Constitutional Development and Civil Litigation in China', International Journal of Comparative Law, 7 (2), April, 215-46

Jianfu Chen (2008), 'Sources of Law and Law-Making', in Chinese Law: Context and Transformation, Chapter 5, Leiden, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 171-206

Randall Peerenboom (2002), 'The Administrative Law Regime: Reining in an Unruly Bureaucracy', in China's Long March Toward Rule of Law, Chapter 9, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 394-449

He Xin (2009), 'Administrative Law as a Mechanism for Political Control in Contemporary China', in Stephanie Balme and Michael W. Dowdle (eds), Building Constitutionalism in China, Chapter 9, New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 143-61, references

Jamie P. Horsley (2010), 'Update on China's Open Government Information Regulations: Surprising Public Demand Yielding Some Positive Results', 23 April, accessed at: http://www.freedominfo.org/2010/04/update-on-china-open-government-information-regulations, 1-12

Kevin J. O'Brien and Lianjiang Li (2005), 'Suing the Local State: Administrative Litigation in Rural China', in Neil J. Diamant, Stanley B. Lubman and Kevin J. O'Brien (eds), Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice, Chapter 2, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 31-53

Benjamin L. Liebman (2007), 'China's Courts: Restricted Reform', Columbia Journal of Asian Law, 21 (1), Fall, 1-44

Zhu Suli (2010), 'The Party and the Courts', in Randall Peerenboom (ed.), Judicial Independence in China: Lessons for Global Rule of Law Promotion, Chapter 4, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 52-68

Willy Lam (2009), 'The Politicisation of China's Law-Enforcement and Judicial Apparatus', China Perspectives, 2, 42-51

Yang Su and Xin He (2010), 'Street as Courtroom: State Accommodation of Labor Protest in South China', Law and Society Review, 44 (1), 157-84

Qin Xudong (2010), 'Calling for Judicial Reform', China 2010: Annual Edition, 316, January, 80-81

Murray Scot Tanner and Eric Green (2008), 'Principals and Secret Agents: Central versus Local Control Over Policing and Obstacles to "Rule of Law" in China', in Donald C. Clarke (ed.), China's Legal System: New Developments, New Challenges (The China Quarterly Special Issues, New Series, No. 8), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 90-116

He Weifang (2008), 'The Police and the Rule of Law: Commentary on "Principals and Secret Agents"', in Donald C. Clarke (ed.), China's Legal System: New Developments, New Challenges (The China Quarterly Special Issues, New Series, No. 8), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 117-20

Ira Belkin (2007), 'China', in Craig M. Bradley (ed.), Criminal Procedure: A Worldwide Study, Second Edition, Chapter 3, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 91-106, new addendum

Weidong Chen (2010), 'Retrospection and Perspective: Chinese Criminal Procedure Law (1979-2009)', Frontiers of Law in China, 5 (4), December, 510-31

Mike McConville (2011), 'A Note on Administrative Punishment in China', in Mike McConville with Satnam Choongh, Pinky Choy Dick Wan, Eric Chui Wing Hong, Ian Dobinson and Carol Jones, Criminal Justice in China: An Empirical Inquiry, Appendix 8, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 497-505

Alison W. Conner (2010), 'China's Lawyers and their Training: Enduring Influences and Disconnects', in John Gillespie and Albert H.Y. Chen (eds), Legal Reforms in China and Vietnam: A Comparison of Asian Communist Regimes, Chapter 11, London and New York, NY: Routledge, 276-98

Hualing Fu and Richard Cullen (2008), ' Weiquan (Rights Protection) Lawyering in an Authoritarian State: Building a Culture of Public-Interest Lawyering', China Journal, 59, January, 111-27

Eva Pils (2009), 'The Dislocation of the Chinese Human Rights Movement', in Stacy Mosher and Patrick Poon (eds), A Sword and a Shield: China's Human Rights Lawyers, Hong Kong: China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group, 141-59

Aaron Halegua (2005), 'Reforming the People's Mediation System in Urban China', Hong Kong Law Journal, 35 (3), 715-50

Mary E. Gallagher (2005), '"Use the Law as Your Weapon!": Institutional Change and Legal Mobilization in China', in Neil J. Diamant, Stanley B. Lubman and Kevin J. O'Brien (eds), Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice, Chapter 3, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 54-83

Carl F. Minzner (2006), 'Xinfang: An Alternative to Formal Chinese Legal Institutions', Stanford Journal of International Law, 42, 103-79

Notes:

The recommended readings are available in the print version, or may be available via the link to your library's holdings.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed February 13, 2015).

ISBN:

1-78471-390-2