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civil dispute resolution in contemporary China
Analyzes whether China's thirty years of legal reform have taken root in Chinese society by examining how ordinary citizens are using the legal system
1. From mediatory to adjudicatory justice : the limits of civil justice reform in China -- 2. Judicial disciplinary systems for incorrectly decided cases: the imperial Chinese heritage lives on -- 3. Legalizing the local state : administrative "legality" at China?s grassroots -- 4. Economic development and the development of the legal profession in China -- 5. The impact of nationalist and Maoist legacies on popular trust in legal institutions -- 6. Public attitudes toward official justice in Beijing and rural China -- 7. Users and non-users : legal experience and its effect on legal consciousness -- 8. With or without the law : the changing meaning of ordinary legal work in China, 1979-2003 -- 9. A populist threat to China?s courts? -- 10. Dispute resolution and China?s grass-roots legal services -- 11. The constitution in the courtroom : constitutional development and civil litigation in China
edited by Margaret Y.K. Woo, Mary E. Gallagher