Sida Liu (University of Toronto), Terence C. Halliday

Criminal Defense in China

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is for scholars, students, and general readers interested in Chinese law, China's lawyers, and criminal justice, and the fight for basic legal freedoms. It is a comprehensive study on lawyers' political mobilization in China's criminal justice system, placing Chinese lawyers' everyday struggles in comparative and historical contexts.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781107162419
• ISBN-10: 1107162416
• Artikelnr.: 45189414

Autorenporträt

Sida Liu is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, and a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 2016¿17. He received his LLB from Peking University Law School and his PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago. He has written widely on Chinese law, sociolegal theory, and general social theory, including two books (in Chinese) on the legal profession in China.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The politics of criminal defense lawyers
2. Recursivity of criminal procedure reforms
3. Difficulties and danger in lawyers' workplaces
4. Survival strategies and political values
5. The courage of notable activists
6. The trial of Li Zhuang
7. Lawyer activism through online networking
8. Between reform and repression.