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Laws on Paper vs. Law in Practice
Stanley Lubman, a long-time specialist on Chinese law, is a Distinguished Lecturer in Residence at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law and is the author of ?Bird in a Cage: Legal Reform in China After Mao,? (Stanford University Press, 1999).
China has enacted 240 laws, 706 administrative regulations, and over 8,600 local regulations since August 2011, according to the latest official government review of China?s legal system.
But what do these add up to in practice?
A white paper issued by the State Council last month pays too much attention to laws on paper, while slighting meaningful discussion of how the legal system actually works?or doesn?t.
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