Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice - Paperback

by Neil J. Diamant (Editor), Stanley B. Lubman (Editor), Kevin J. O'Brien (Editor)

This interdisciplinary book of essays addresses critical issues arising from the emergence of legal process and legal institutions in contemporary China. The introduction by the editors and the individual chapters attempt, for the first time, to bring to bear on the study of Chinese law the law-and-society scholarship that has enriched Western legal studies.

Author Biography

Neil J. Diamant is Associate Professor of Asian Law and Culture at Dickinson College. Stanley B. Lubman is a specialist on Chinese law and advisor to The Asia Foundation, Lecturer at Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Bird in a Cage: Legal Reform in China after Mao (Stanford, 2000). Kevin O'Brien is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.