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 …

Chinese cadre responsibility systems are a core element of Chinese law and governance.
These top-down personnel systems set concrete target goals linked to official salaries and …

How courts and judges in authoritarian regimes decide cases behind closed doors has
rarely been studied, but it is critically important in comparative judicial studies. Primarily …

Drawing on interviews with Chinese judges, this paper reveals the major effects of judicial
reforms during the past half decade. It focuses on the ramifications of a new quota and …

In its constitution, Indonesia declares itself a state of law. However, government practice
frequently ignores the State Administrative Court's judgements, despite the fact that court …

Politics has shaped the operation of the Chinese courts as well as their decision-making
processes. This article surveys mostly empirical studies on the relationship between the …

Few empirical studies have established a relationship between court funding and judicial
corruption in China. It is widely assumed that inadequate court funding erodes justice …

Performance evaluation systems fundamentally shape the behaviour of Chinese judges, but
scholarship on the concrete implementation of these institutions is scarce. Relying on nearly …

An analysis of adjudicated divorce decisions in two Chinese provinces reveals the extent to
which and the reasons why Chinese courts subvert the global legal norms they symbolically …

In 2011 and 2012, the Supreme People's Court (SPC) published its first “guiding cases.”
Guiding cases serve as decision-making models that must be taken into account by lower …