Chinese Legal Reform and the Global Legal Order (Hardcover)

Yun Zhao

ISBN 10: 110718200X / ISBN 13: 9781107182004

Editore: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017

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Hardcover. This volume critically evaluates the latest legal reform of China, covering major areas such as trade and securities law, online privacy law, criminal law, human rights and international law. It represents a bold departure from the most recent works on Chinese legal reform by engaging the ideas of experts in contemporary Chinese law with the archival scholarship of Chinese legal historians. This unique interdisciplinary feature affords readers a more nuanced view of the complexities and specificities of how China has problematised legal reforms in various historical contexts when building a progressive yet sustainable legal system. This volume appraises the most current reform in Chinese law by considering China's engagement with globalisation, increasingly complicated domestic situation and historical legal transplantation experiences. It will be of huge interest to students, researchers and practitioners interested in Chinese law and policy, China and Asian studies and Chinese legal history. A critical evaluation of the latest reform in Chinese law that engages the Chinese legal scholars and Chinese legal historians. Providing a unique insight into the development of Chinese legal reform, this book will appeal to readers interested in Chinese law and policy, Asian studies, and Chinese legal history. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Chinese Legal Reform and the Global Legal Order (Hardcover)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 110718200X
• ISBN 13: 9781107182004
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: new

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Riassunto

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

Informazioni sugli autori

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.