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The Judicial System and Reform in Post-Mao China Yuwen Li (Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam)

The Judicial System and Reform in Post-Mao China By Yuwen Li (Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam)

The Judicial System and Reform in Post-Mao China by Yuwen Li (Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam)


The Judicial System and Reform in Post-Mao China Summary

The Judicial System and Reform in Post-Mao China: Stumbling Towards Justice by Yuwen Li (Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam)

This comprehensive study examines the development and changing characteristics of the judicial system and reform process over the past three decades in China. As the role of courts in society has increased so too has the amount of public complaints about the judiciary. At the same time, political control over the judiciary has retained its tight-grip. The shortcomings of the contemporary system, such as institutional deficiencies, shocking cases of injustice and cases of serious judicial corruption, are deemed quite appalling by an international audience. Using a combination of traditional modes of legal analysis, case studies, and empirical research, this study reflects upon the complex progress that China has made, and continues to make, towards the modernisation of its judicial system. Li offers a better understanding on how the judicial system has transformed and what challenges lay ahead for further enhancement. This book is unique in providing both the breadth of coverage and yet the substantive details of the most fundamental as well as controversial subjects concerning the operation of the courts in China.

The Judicial System and Reform in Post-Mao China Reviews

Yuwen Li, Professor of Chinese Law at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, focuses mainly on the laws on criminal and civil procedure and administrative litigation and on the work conditions of judges and lawyers. Among the problems she identifies are: limitation of the rights of defendants in court proceedings; the lack of public reporting of trials; restrictions on independent lawyers; political influence on judges by Communist Party officials through party organisations within or linked to the judicial system; the influence of Adjudication Committees, which can be decisive even when their members are not given full details of trials; and the financial dependence of the Courts on local governments.
Kenneth C. Walker,

About Yuwen Li (Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Yuwen Li is a Professor of Chinese Law and the Director of the Erasmus China Law Centre at the Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. She holds a BA in Chinese Law from Peking University, an MA in International Law and International Relations from the Institute of Social Studies, and a PhD in International Law from Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Since 2001, she has acted as co-director of a number of legal collaborative projects with numerous Chinese institutions, including the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the National Judges College, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Law School of Wuhan University. Currently, she is supervising a number of Chinese PhD candidates who are writing on various legal topics from comparative perspectives. She is also on the panel list of Arbitrators on the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration in the PRC. She has published extensively on various topics of Chinese law.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1: Jurisdiction, Hierarchy and Actors; 2: Courts' Relationships with Extra-Judicial Bodies; 3: The Professionalisation of the Judiciary; 4: The Criminal Trial Process; 5: The Civil Trial Process; 6: The Administrative Trial Process; 7: The Role of the Legal Profession in the Judicial System; 8: Conclusions

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NLS9781138637627
9781138637627
1138637629
The Judicial System and Reform in Post-Mao China: Stumbling Towards Justice by Yuwen Li (Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2017-01-09
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