Practicing Transparency - Foreign Lawyers in China's Transitional Economy

ISBN-13: 9783639083675 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 220 str.

Jana King Allen

Opis

China is in the midst of unprecedented economic transformation. Fundamental legal reform accompanies these changes as the govern­ment promotes the rule of law. Foreign lawyers have played a critical role in this process, working toward greater transparency in Chinas legal system. This book examines how foreign lawyers working in China promote Chinas legal transformation in their daily practice, and how the countrys opaque legal environment causes lawyers to alter the roles they play for clients. While working in China, these foreign lawyers operate under restrictions on their legal practice. This book analyzes how these lawyers respond to such restrictions by following, bending or violating the Chinese regulations. This innovative sociological study is based on extensive original interviews with legal practitioners in China. Readers with an interest in China, law, or sociology will find this book particularly illuminating.

O autorze

King Allen Jana Jana King Allen, Ph.D. Columbia University: Studied Sociology with specializations in law, legal development, and culture; J.D. Yale Law School. Dr. King Allen studied and worked in China. She currently resides in Geneva, Switzerland.