Criminal Law Review (Volume 18)

Author: Chen Xingliang, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: In the coming years, the death penalty will still remain our top priority of concern. This volume continues the discussion on the death penalty. In the "Death Penalty Research" column, Fang Peng's article "Rational Analysis of Death Penalty Errors" conducts empirical research on death penalty errors, which has never been done before in the field of criminal law in China. In the "Theoretical Frontiers" column, He Qingren's article "The Communicative Significance of Criminal Law" employs Habermas's "Communication Theory" and references works by Kaufmann and others to offer a brand-new interpretation of the communicative significance of criminal law. In the "Criminal Policy Research" column, Lu Xiqi's article "A Humanistic Perspective on Criminal Policy" proposes the concept of a humanistic criminal policy. In the "Criminal Procedure Research" column, Wu Danhong's article "The Confidentiality Obligation of Lawyers in Criminal Proceedings" conducts an in-depth study on the issue of lawyers' confidentiality obligations. In the "Justification Research" column, Chen Meng's article "An Examination of Justification from the Perspective of Evidence Law" presents a highly original study on the issue of burden of proof in the determination of justification. In the "Empirical Research" column, Li Yanbing's article "Investigation and Empirical Analysis of Executive Misconduct in Chinese Listed Companies" conducts a high-level empirical analysis based on a substantial collection of data on executive misconduct in listed companies. In the "Criminal Law Forum" column, the discussion records of the second "National Symposium on Special Topics in Criminal Law for Young and Middle-aged Scholars" on the concept of illegality are published. In the "Foreign Translations" column, the article "Criminal Theory in the 20th Century" by Jeremy Waldron is featured, which is indeed a grand and impressive work. In the "Special Research" column, Gao Yandong's article "Critical Reflection on the Criminalization of Preparatory Acts as a Whole" provides a comprehensive reflection on the legislative phenomenon of "criminalization of preparatory acts as a whole" in China's criminal law.