Contemporary Chinese Justice: Civil Dispute Resolution in China
Contemporary Chinese Justice: Civil Dispute Resolution in China, a new book which is still in press and expected to be published by Cambridge University Press on April 30th of 2011. This book is edited by Margaret Y. K. Woo, Northeastern University, Boston and Mary E. Gallagher, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Consists of 3 parts and 11 articles contributed by 14 authors all around the world, this book analyzes whether China’s thirty years of legal reform have taken root in Chinese society by examining how ordinary citizens are using the legal system in contemporary China. Please find below the features and main contents of this book:
Features
1, Interdisciplinary, bringing together law scholars and social scientists working on Chinese legal reforms;
2, Each chapter is a rich empirical case of some aspect of legal reform;
3 Focuses on law-in-action, examining how law is used from the bottom up and how China’s legal institutions structure this interaction.
Contents
Part I. Legal Development and Institutional Tensions:
1. From mediatory to adjudicatory justice: the limits of civil justice reform in China Fu Hualing and Richard Cullen;
2. Judicial disciplinary systems for incorrectly decided cases: the imperial Chinese heritage lives on Carl Minzner;
3. Proceduralism and rivalry in China’s two legal states Douglas B. Grob;
4. Economic development and the development of the legal profession in China Randall Peerenboom;
Part II. Pu Fa and the Dissemination of Law in the Chinese Context:
5. The impact of nationalist and Maoist legacies on popular trust in legal institutions Pierre F. Landry;
6. Popular attitudes toward official justice in Beijing and rural China Ethan Michelson and Benjamin Read;
7. Users and non-users: legal experience and its effect on legal consciousness Mary Gallagher and Yuhua Wang;
8. With or without law: the changing meaning of ordinary legal work in China, 1979–2003 Sida Liu;
Part III. Law from the Bottom Up:
9. A populist threat to China’s courts? Benjamin L. Liebman;
10. Dispute resolution and China’s grassroots legal services Fu Yulin;
11. Constitutionalism with Chinese characteristics? Thomas E. Kellogg.
LEHMAN, LEE & XU is one of the largest and oldest corporate and commercial law firms in the People’s Republic of China. As a recognized leading law firm, we are familiar with the legal environment in China and provide our clients with diversified legal services here. Our practice areas includes foreign direct investment, general legal corporate and commercial practice, corporate finance and securities, labor and employment, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, intellectual rights including both patent and trademark agency, as well as forensic accounting and tax planning. Our clients, both past and present, are also equally diverse, having represented Fortune 500 companies, foreign governments, financial services companies and non-governmental agencies.
For more information about the firm, please visit our website at
www.lehmanlaw.com
.
Contemporary Chinese Justice: Civil Dispute Resolution in China, a new book which is still in press and expected to be published by Cambridge University Press on April 30th of 2011. This book is edited by Margaret Y. K. Woo, Northeastern University, Boston and Mary E. Gallagher, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Consists of 3 parts and 11 articles contributed by 14 authors all around the world, this book analyzes whether China’s thirty years of legal reform have taken root in Chinese society by examining how ordinary citizens are using the legal system in contemporary China. Please find below the features and main contents of this book:
Features
1, Interdisciplinary, bringing together law scholars and social scientists working on Chinese legal reforms;
2, Each chapter is a rich empirical case of some aspect of legal reform;
3 Focuses on law-in-action, examining how law is used from the bottom up and how China’s legal institutions structure this interaction.
Contents
Part I. Legal Development and Institutional Tensions:
1. From mediatory to adjudicatory justice: the limits of civil justice reform in China Fu Hualing and Richard Cullen;
2. Judicial disciplinary systems for incorrectly decided cases: the imperial Chinese heritage lives on Carl Minzner;
3. Proceduralism and rivalry in China’s two legal states Douglas B. Grob;
4. Economic development and the development of the legal profession in China Randall Peerenboom;
Part II. Pu Fa and the Dissemination of Law in the Chinese Context:
5. The impact of nationalist and Maoist legacies on popular trust in legal institutions Pierre F. Landry;
6. Popular attitudes toward official justice in Beijing and rural China Ethan Michelson and Benjamin Read;
7. Users and non-users: legal experience and its effect on legal consciousness Mary Gallagher and Yuhua Wang;
8. With or without law: the changing meaning of ordinary legal work in China, 1979–2003 Sida Liu;
Part III. Law from the Bottom Up:
9. A populist threat to China’s courts? Benjamin L. Liebman;
10. Dispute resolution and China’s grassroots legal services Fu Yulin;
11. Constitutionalism with Chinese characteristics? Thomas E. Kellogg.
LEHMAN, LEE & XU is one of the largest and oldest corporate and commercial law firms in the People’s Republic of China. As a recognized leading law firm, we are familiar with the legal environment in China and provide our clients with diversified legal services here. Our practice areas includes foreign direct investment, general legal corporate and commercial practice, corporate finance and securities, labor and employment, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, intellectual rights including both patent and trademark agency, as well as forensic accounting and tax planning. Our clients, both past and present, are also equally diverse, having represented Fortune 500 companies, foreign governments, financial services companies and non-governmental agencies.
For more information about the firm, please visit our website at
www.lehmanlaw.com
.