For a long period of time, the Chinese courts were enveloped in tales, myths, and
stereotypes. Public access to court decisions was limited and patchy, and varied greatly both …

China's law to control international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) has sent
shockwaves through international non-governmental organisations (NGOs), civil society and …

Surveillance infrastructure in China monitors and enables authorities to react to potential
risky, miscreant or criminal behaviour. What type of behaviours are perceived to be so, is …

Xi Jinping's judicial reforms have placed the concepts of 'fairness' and 'justice'at the forefront,
coinciding with the integration of information technology and AI into all aspects of China's …

Schools constitute key sites for legal socialisation, the process whereby youth develop their
relationship with the law. Yet, what does legal socialisation entail in the context of an …

In authoritarian regimes, risk tends to be politically positioned to reflect the ruling party's
interests, needs and priorities. In this article, I focus on the People's Republic of China …

Over the past half-century, the nexus between risk and prevention has increasingly become
a constant preoccupation among many criminal justice regimes around the globe. In China …

By focusing on the underlit corners of authoritarian governance in China, this article
challenges the thesis that constitutions matter to authoritarian regimes because they provide …

This article explores the significance of xieshang minzhu, the Chinese term for deliberative
democracy. As this term is also closely connected to the political tradition of the Communist …

In the Chinese criminal legal system, the term 'Qianke'(前科) is conceptually interchangeable
with the idea of a criminal record that lists one's past crimes, convictions and sentences. In …