Criminal Defense in China studies empirically the everyday work and political mobilization of defense lawyers in China. It builds upon 329 interviews across China, and other social science methods, to investigate and analyze the interweaving of politics and practice in five segments of the practicing criminal defense bar in China from 2005 to 2015. This book is the first to examine everyday criminal defense work in China as a political project. The authors engage extensive scholarship on lawyers and political liberalism across the world, from seventeenth-century Europe to late twentieth-century Korea and Taiwan, drawing on theoretical propositions from this body of theory to examine the strategies and constraints of lawyer mobilization in China. The book brings a fresh perspective through its focus on everyday work and ordinary lawyering in an authoritarian context and raises searching questions about law and lawyers, politics and society, in China's uncertain future.
| ISBN: | 9781316614846 |
| Publication date: | 14th November 2016 |
| Author: | Sida University of Toronto Liu, Terence C Halliday |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 221 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society |
| Genres: |
Criminal justice law Criminal procedure Legal systems: general Social law and Medical law |
Criminal Defense in China studies empirically the everyday work and political mobilization of defense lawyers in China. It builds upon 329 interviews across China, and other social science methods, to investigate and analyze the interweaving of politics and practice in five segments of the practicing criminal defense bar in China from 2005 to 2015. This book is the first to examine everyday criminal defense work in China as a political project. The authors engage extensive scholarship on lawyers and political liberalism across the world, from seventeenth-century Europe to late twentieth-century Korea and Taiwan, drawing on theoretical propositions from this body of theory to examine the strategies and constraints of lawyer mobilization in China. The book brings a fresh perspective through its focus on everyday work and ordinary lawyering in an authoritarian context and raises searching questions about law and lawyers, politics and society, in China's uncertain future.
Criminal Defense in China features in the following genres: Criminal justice law, Criminal procedure, Legal systems: general, Social law and Medical law
Criminal Defense in China is available in Paperback
Criminal Defense in China was written by Sida University of Toronto Liu, Terence C Halliday and published by Cambridge University Press
Criminal Defense in China has 221 pages
Yes it is part of Cambridge Studies in Law and Society series
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