Engaging the Law in China - State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice

Zusatztext "This remarkable! perspective-setting study of the evolutions in Chinese law and its place in a changing society [is] highly beneficial. One can only strongly encourage this type of research! whose multidisciplinary ambitions allow us to grasp! if not in its entirety! at least certain important aspects of a process that tends to make the law the best ally of an emerging social justice." Informationen zum Autor Neil J. Diamant is Associate Professor of Asian Law and Culture at Dickinson College. Stanley B. Lubman is a specialist on Chinese law and advisor to The Asia Foundation, Lecturer at Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Bird in a Cage: Legal Reform in China after Mao (Stanford, 2000). Kevin O'Brien is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext This book explores legal mobilization! culture! and institutions in contemporary China from a perspective informed by 'law and society' scholarship. Zusammenfassung This interdisciplinary book of essays addresses critical issues arising from the emergence of legal process and legal institutions in contemporary China. The introduction by the editors and the individual chapters attempt, for the first time, to bring to bear on the study of Chinese law the law-and-society scholarship that has enriched Western legal studies.

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• Authors: Neil J. Lubman Diamant
• Assisted by: Neil J Diamant (Editor), Neil J. Diamant (Editor), Stanley B Lubman (Editor), Stanley B. Lubman (Editor), Kevin J O'Brien (Editor), Kevin J. O'Brien (Editor)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.03.2010
• EAN: 9780804771801
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-7180-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries