Section outline

  • Legal developments and the experience of law in People's Republic of China  started with the introduction of Chinese-style Marxist ideology, the Chinese contemporary legal system undergoes domestic political upheavals and globalisation. 

    Readings:

    • Jianfu Chen, Chinese Law: Context and Transformation (2016), Brill Nijhoff, Chapter 2
    • PDF Daniel Arthur LAPRÈS and Zhang YueJiao, Introduction to Chinese Legal System
    • PDF Mo Zhang, The Socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics: China’s discourse for the rule of law and a bitter experience 
    PDF  Symposium, China and the WTO: Progress, Perils, and Prospects, 17 Colum. J. Asian L. 1 (2003) Read only remarks of Profs. Yu and Jerome Cohen
    • Legal System from our Perspective Assignment
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      Please search the relevant archive of the public media in your home country during the past several years (2-5 years) and collect the relevant coverage on Chinese legal system. Produce a report on such coverage. In your report, please identify the major issues concerning Chinese legal system covered in the relevant news report , the opinions of such reports, basic values reflected in these reports. Summarize the Chinese legal system as reported in these news coverage and give your personal analysis or assessment of such coverage.

      If there is very limited coverage on this topic, please also try to analyze the reasons for the limited coverage.

    • Chinese Legal System in News Coverage Abroad Wiki
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      Please upload your research findings concerning the Chinese Legal System in News Coverage in your home country to this wiki file and edit a wiki file together with the other fellow students.

    • Contemporary Chinese Legal System in News Coverage abroad Workshop
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      Please present the findings of your research on the topic given, and share your point of view with other fellow students and have further discussions.

    • PPT: Special Topic of Chinese Legal Culture File
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      Uploaded 16/07/17, 11:50
    • Chinese Legal System and Potential for Reform File
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      Please watch the video and discuss the following issues:

      Similarity between Contemporary Chinese legal system and other western legal systems

      Difference between Contemporary Chinese legal system and the American Legal sytems

      People's resort to courts for achieving justice and resolving disputes

      Different situation of justice in different parts of China

      Uploaded 16/10/17, 13:15
    • Prof. Cohen: Is there law in China File
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      Please watch the speech of Prof. Jerome Cohen and discuss the following issues:

      - domestic and global factors in the development of legal system in PRC

      - economic and political factors in the development of legal system in PRC

      - What does that mean by the saying "there's no law" in China?

      - How are the perspectives and opinions of foreign legal practitioners and scholars on Chinese legal development different from each other? why?


      Uploaded 13/10/17, 14:57
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