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This book focuses on the law and development of major dispute resolution mechanisms in China, examining the design and legal framework of civil litigation, arbitration and mediation, their operations, challenges, and past-decade reforms.
List of contents
Part I: Background of Dispute Resolution in China 1. Introduction to Dispute Resolution 2.
Courts and Dispute Resolution
Part II: The Laws of and Developments in China's Major Dispute Resolution Systems 3. Civil Litigation: Evolution towards a More Litigious Society 4. Arbitration: A Synthesis of Unique Socio-economic Dynamics 5. Mediation: Scattered Regime and Socio-political Orientations
Part III: Interaction between Litigation, Arbitration, Mediation and China's Hybrid Dispute Resolution Systems and Developments 6. Judicial Mediation: The Juggling Path between Adjudicatory and Mediatory Justice 7. Judicial Enforcement of Arbitration: Extending a Pro-Arbitration Judicial Embrace 8. Med-Arb: When Local Practices Meet (or Do Not Meet) International Expectations
Part IV: Conclusion 9. Conclusions: China's Civil Justice Reform
About the author
Weixia Gu is an Associate Professor at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Faculty of Law, and a Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law Asia-Pacific Interest Group, where she specialises in arbitration and dispute resolution (both international and domestic) and private international law, with a focus on China. She is the author and editor of over 60 books, book chapters and journal articles. Her works have appeared in leading comparative and international law journals in the East and West, and her scholarship has been cited by the US Court of Appeals Eleventh Circuit, US Texas Supreme Court, and Singapore Law Gazette. She is the recipient of HKU's Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2018.
Summary
This book focuses on the law and development of major dispute resolution mechanisms in China, examining the design and legal framework of civil litigation, arbitration and mediation, their operations, challenges, and past-decade reforms.
