The
China Law and Society Review provides state-of-the-art review articles on research about the development and functioning of law and legal institutions in China. It focuses on reviewing interdisciplinary socio-legal research that analyses law in action in China. It publishes commissioned articles by leading senior scholars as well as emerging talent from across the globe. First issues will center on legal institutions, such as the courts, legal profession, legislators, prosecutors, the media, the party, and civil society organizations. Later issues will look in more depth at the development and functioning of substantive areas of law, including tort, labor, environment, intellectual property, criminal, and corporate law. In each issue cross-cutting themes will emerge which are likely to include legal consciousness, access to justice, rule of law, enforcement and compliance, regulatory strategies, law and development, ethics and corruption, judicial independence, central-local relations, and formal and informal institutions. Where deemed interesting, publications are to position the literature on China in a broader comparative context, in order to analyze China’s special characteristics as well as draw out theoretical significance. In the course of its publication the
Review will establish a comprehensive and authoritative account of Law and Society in China. By updating the electronically published articles on set intervals, the timeliness of the reviews will be ensured. The
Review will be of interest to scholars of Chinese law, Chinese politics and governance, Chinese business, as well as Chinese society. Moreover it will be of interest to public and private practitioners seeking to understand how to deal with law and legal institutions in the Chinese context.
Editors-in-Chief (in alphabetical order)
Mary Gallagher,
University of Michigan, Michigan, USA Liu Sida,
University of Toronto, Canada Susan Trevaskes,
Griffith University, Australia Benjamin van Rooij,
University of California, Irvine, California, USA
International Editorial Board (alphabetical order)
William Alford,
Harvard Law School, Massachusetts, USA Stéphanie Balme,
Sciences Po, France Sarah Biddulph,
University of Melbourne, Australia Chen Baifeng,
Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China Chen Jianfu,
La Trobe University, Australia Donald Clarke,
George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA Jerome Cohen,
New York University, NY, USA Rogier Creemers,
Leiden University, Netherlands Michael Dowdle,
National University of Singapore, Singapore Fu Hualing,
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Keith Hand,
University of California, Hastings, California, USA He Xin,
City University of Hong Kong, USA Hou Meng,
Peking University Law School, China Nicholas Howson,
University of Michigan, Michigan, USA Ji Weidong,
Koguan Law School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Pierre Landry,
New York University, Shanghai, China Margaret Lewis,
Seton Hall University, New Jersey, USA Li Ling,
University of Vienna, Austria Li Xueyao,
Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Liang Zhiping,
Chinese National Academy of Arts, China Benjamin Liebman,
Columbia Law School, NY, USA Carlos Lo,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Stanley Lubman,
University of California, Berkeley, California, USA Ethan Michelson,
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Kwai Hang Ng,
University of San Diego, California, USA Randall Peerenboom,
La Trobe University, Australia Eva Pils,
King’s College London, UK Flora Sapio,
Australia National University, Australia Song Hualin,
Nankai Univeristy, China Rachel Stern,
University of California, Berkeley, California, USA Yang Su,
University of California, Irvine, California, USA Marina Svensson,
Lund University, Sweden Wang Kan,
China Institute for Industrial Relations, China Wang Qiliang,
Yunnan University, China Margaret Woo,
Northeastern University, Massachusetts, USA Wu Hongqi,
China University of Politics and Law, China Chao Xi,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Peter Yu,
Texas A&M University School of Law, Texas, USA Zhang Taisu,
Yale University, Connecticut, USA Zhang Wanhong,
Wuhan University, China Zhao Xudong,
Renmin University of China, China