Thanks to the China Law Discussion list for alerting us to this title.
They write :
We have very recently added “Judicial Independence in China: Lessons for Global Rule of Law Promotion, a book edited by Randall Peerenboom (2010) to our China Collection(ISBN 978-0-521-19026-8(Hardback); 978-0-521-13734-8 (Paperback).
I have had a hard time putting it down. It contains a lot of up-to-date and usable information about the Chinese legal system.
It collects the recent work of Keith Henderson, Antoine Garapon, Zhu Suli, Randy, Fu Yulin, Nicolas Howson, Stephanie Balme, Xin He, Ling Li, Minxin Pei, Zhang Guoyan, Pei Fei, Chen Lixin, Carlo Guarnieri and Tom Ginsburg.
Along with my colleague, Wanita Scroggs, and some Chinese transaction lawyers, we teach a Chinalaw course that covers both the theory and practice of Chinese law. As part of the course, our students divide up and put a mock US-China business transaction together. They negotiate and form the entity, run the business, deal with labor and other issues in running the business and then disolve the entity. But we do all of this in the background and context of the past and present socio, economic, political, and legal history of China. Randy’s book will be a great resource not only for our Chinalaw students but anyone who wants to integrate both theory and practice (in an updated, readable and usable format) to gain a better understanding of the current Chinese legal system.
