The limits of the rule of law in China /
"Fourteen authors working in different academic disciplines examine questions that have troubled Chinese and Western scholars of jurisprudence since classical times. Using data from the early nineteenth century through the contemporary period, they analyze how tension between formal laws and di...
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| Language: | English |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First paperback edition. |
| Series: | Asian law series ;
no. 14. |
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Table of Contents:
- The problem of paradigms / Karen G. Turner
- Conceptions and receptions of legality : understanding the complexity of law reform in modern China / Yuanyuan Shen
- Law, law, what law? : why western scholars of China have not had more to say about its law / William P. Alford
- Using the past to make a case for the rule of law / Jonathan K. Ocko
- Rule of man and the rule of law in China : punishing provincial governors during the Qing / R. Kent Guy
- Collective responsibility in Qing criminal law / Joanna Waley-Cohen
- True confessions? : Chinese confessions then and now / Alison W. Conner
- Law and discretion in contemporary Chinese courts / Margaret Y.K. Woo
- Equality and justice in official and popular views about civil obligations : China and Taiwan / Pitman B. Potter
- Language and law : sources of systematic vagueness and ambiguous authority in Chinese statutory language / Claudia Ross and Lester Ross
- The future of federalism in China / Tahirih V. Lee
- The rule of law imposed from outside : China's foreign-oriented legal regime since 1978 / James V. Feinerman
- The deep roots of resistance to law codes and lawyers in China / Jack L. Dull.