This first English volume of "The China Legal Development Yearbook" features reports on and analyses of a wide range of topics vital to the development of China's legal system, including: criminal law, judicial administration, labor regulations, environmental law, public health law, and issues of corruption. The yearbook is edited by the Institute of Law at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and also includes contributions from practitioners within the Chinese legal system.

This volume of the China Legal Development Yearbook is the second in a series of annual reports written by leading Chinese law and legal policy scholars and judges. It is edited by the Institute of Law at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The Yearbook contains reports on law reform priorities, major legal policy debates and an account of legislation proposed and passed in 2006. This Yearbook features reports on those legal reforms seeking to strengthen the rule of law and to make the administration of justice more "people-oriented." It contains articles and reports on reforms made to...