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Informationen zum Autor Sida Liu is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, and a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 2016-17. He received his LLB from Peking University Law School and his PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago. He has written widely on Chinese law, sociolegal theory, and general social theory, including two books (in Chinese) on the legal profession in China. Klappentext Criminal Defense in China studies empirically the everyday work and political mobilization of defense lawyers in China. It builds upon 329 interviews across China, and other social science methods, to investigate and analyze the interweaving of politics and practice in five segments of the practicing criminal defense bar in China from 2005 to 2015. This book is the first to examine everyday criminal defense work in China as a political project. The authors engage extensive scholarship on lawyers and political liberalism across the world, from seventeenth-century Europe to late twentieth-century Korea and Taiwan, drawing on theoretical propositions from this body of theory to examine the strategies and constraints of lawyer mobilization in China. The book brings a fresh perspective through its focus on everyday work and ordinary lawyering in an authoritarian context and raises searching questions about law and lawyers, politics and society, in China's uncertain future. Zusammenfassung This book is for scholars! students! and general readers interested in Chinese law! China's lawyers! and criminal justice! and the fight for basic legal freedoms. It is a comprehensive study on lawyers' political mobilization in China's criminal justice system! placing Chinese lawyers' everyday struggles in comparative and historical contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The politics of criminal defense lawyers; 2. Recursivity of criminal procedure reforms; 3. Difficulties and danger in lawyers' workplaces; 4. Survival strategies and political values; 5. The courage of notable activists; 6. The trial of Li Zhuang; 7. Lawyer activism through online networking; 8. Between reform and repression....
