Judicial Independence in China: Lessons for Global Rule of Law Promotion - Softcover

Peerenboom, Randall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521137349 ISBN 13: 9780521137348

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This volume challenges conventional wisdom about judicial independence in China and its relationship to economic growth, rule of law, human rights protection, and democracy.

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About the Author

Randall Peerenboom, formerly a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles Law School and director of the Oxford Foundation for Law, Justice and Society Rule of Law in China Programme, is currently an Associate Fellow of the University of Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and a law professor at La Trobe University, Victoria. He has been a consultant to the Asian Development Bank, Ford Foundation, EU-China, UNDP, and other international organizations on legal reforms and rule of law in China and Asia, and he is the co-editor of The Hague Journal of Rule of Law. He is also a CIETAC arbitrator and frequently serves as expert witness on PRC legal issues. Recent books include China Modernizes: Threat to the West or Model for the Rest? (2007), Regulation in Asia (2009), Human Rights in Asia (2006), Asian Discourses of Rule of Law (2004), and China's Long March Toward Rule of Law (2002).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521137349
• ISBN 13: 9780521137348
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 274