-> Delivering Law to the Countryside

Author: Su Li
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Publish Date: 2000-10-01
Features: This book is a theoretical work based on empirical investigation, employing interdisciplinary knowledge to study China's grassroots judicial system. It strives to explore issues in contemporary Chinese grassroots judicial practice that only Chinese scholars (due to their comparative advantages in self-sustaining environments and cultural cultivation) could sensitively identify and propose, which hold both practical significance for grassroots judicial practice and theoretical significance for the general judicial system. It challenges readers' intellect and brings intellectual pleasure. The book is divided into four parts. Part I takes the three systems of delivering law to the countryside, court administration, and the judicial committee as entry points to examine the institutional and theoretical issues of China's grassroots judicial system from micro, meso, and macro perspectives. Part II addresses the gaps in judicial research related to the civil law and common law systems, focusing on the technical and knowledge issues in grassroots judicial practice. It aims to "problematize" the technical and knowledge aspects of grassroots judges that are often invisible in traditional judicial theory and incorporate them into general theoretical analysis. Part III examines various legal professionals, including judges, in China's grassroots judicial system. Part IV explores the power issues in legal empirical investigation, serving as a methodological reflection on the research methodology of this study.