Chinese Legal Reform and the Global Legal Order: Adoption and Adaptation - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1316633071 ISBN 13: 9781316633076

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

A critical evaluation of the latest reform in Chinese law that engages legal scholarship with research of Chinese legal historians.

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About the Authors

Yun Zhao is Professor and Head of Department of Law at The University of Hong Kong; Ph.D. (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam); and L.L.M (Leiden University); L.L.M. and L.L.B. (China University of Political Science and Law). Professor Zhao is also Chen An Chair Professor in International Law at Xiamen University (2015), and Siyuan Scholar Chair Professor at Shanghai University of Foreign Trade (2012–14). He is listed as arbitrator in several international arbitration commissions.

Michael Ng is Assistant Professor and Director of the Centre for Chinese Law at the Faculty of Law of The University of Hong Kong. He is author of Legal Transplantation in Early Twentieth Century China: Practising Law in Republican Beijing (1910s–1930s) (2014) and co-edited Civil Unrest and Governance in Hong Kong: Law and Order from Historical and Cultural Perspectives (2017). His works have appeared in leading international refereed journals such as Law and History Review, Law and Literature, International Journal of Asian Studies, Business History, and the Journal of Comparative Law, among others. He practised in the legal and finance sectors for more than fifteen years before becoming an academic.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1316633071
• ISBN 13: 9781316633076
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Zhao Yun