An ethical legal Orientalism attends to the conditions of legal subject formation: rather than
positing the Chinese as simply lacking legal subjectivity, it allows for the possibility of …

LAW'S ORIENT CONSTITUTES a wide and uneven terrain. This book describes the itinerary
of one par tic u lar journey across that terrain, with a focus on China and the United States …

Chinese authorities are reconsidering legal reforms they enacted in the 1980s and 1990s.
These reforms had emphasized law, litigation, and courts as institutions for resolving civil …

P HREE PHILOSOPHICAL traditions affecting the legal systems in China stand out in clear
relief: the Confucian, the Legalist, and the Buddhist. Although the legal system in China …

Now in its second edition, this textbook presents a critical rethinking of the study of
comparative law and legal theory in a globalising world, and proposes an alternative model …

By training, what I know about Chinese law comes from my study of the Japanese legal
system. Japan imported several early Chinese legal codes in the seventh and eighth …

The idea of legal culture has had an important place in major recent debates about the
nature and aims of comparative law. The idea of legal culture entails that law should be …

Studying contemporary Chinese law may deepen insight into Chinese society, despite the
crushing of the democracy movement in June, 1989 and of the hopes for political reform that …

Although postcolonialism is now the main mode in which the West's relation to the" other" is
critically explored, and although law has been at the forefront of that very relation, a …

For these reasons, the official law always operated in a vertical direction from the state upon
the individual, rather than on a horizontal plane directly between two individuals. If a dispute …