When China first entered the reform era in the late 1970s it was a country lacking a modern legal system. The last three decades have seen rapid establishment of legal codes and development of legal institutions, accompanied by the increasing use of law by the government to govern the economy and society. These three edited volumes take stock of the changes that have happened in the Chinese legal system and provide interesting analyses of the process, problems, and prospects of legal reforms in China.
The volume edited by Cai Dingjian and Wang Chenguang is one of a series sponsored by the Ford Foundation to commemorate three decades of reforms in China and originally published in Chinese by the Social Sciences Academic Press in Beijing. The contributors are leading scholars of law at Chinese academic and research institutions, who also have practical experience working in the Chinese government and/or the legal...
