Chinese Justice: Civil Dispute Resolution in Contemporary China - Hardcover

Edited By Margaret Y. K. Woo , Mary E. Gallagher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107006244 ISBN 13: 9781107006249

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Analyzes whether China's thirty years of legal reform have taken root in Chinese society by examining how ordinary citizens are using the legal system.

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About the Authors

Margaret Y. K. Woo is Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law and co-director of the law school's program on Human Rights in the Global Economy. She has written and spoken widely on US procedural justice and the issue of Chinese legal reform. She was formerly a Fellow at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College and is a research associate with the East Asian Legal Studies Center of Harvard Law School. Her publications include Litigating in America (2006) and East Asian Law - Universal Norms and Local Cultures (2003).

Mary E. Gallagher is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, where she is also the director of the Center for Chinese Studies. She is also a faculty associate at the Center for Comparative Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research. Gallagher is the author of Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China (2005) and the forthcoming The Rule of Law in China: If They Build It, Who Will Come? which was funded by the Fulbright Association and the National Science Foundation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107006244
• ISBN 13: 9781107006249
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432