A Glimpse into Chinese Law-Making - China Real Time Report - WSJ

National Peoples Congress in full session

Stanley Lubman - one of the most seasoned and sensible of the `Chinalaw' hands has an informative column about the progressive development of  Chinese legislation.  In one of history's strange ironies the Communist Party - under Mao's leadership - instead of being the rule-bound bureaucracy we associate with the lat USSR - disparaged law and dismantled its institutions - including the Ministry of Justice!
It has been a long road back.  A little recognized fact about the People's Republic is how weak its government is:  and a lot that has to do with its thin structure of statutes, and even thinner regulatory structures.  Professor Lubman has some useful observations in this regard.  - GWC
A Glimpse into Chinese Law-Making - China Real Time Report - WSJ:
by Prof. Stanley Lubman, University of California
"The most that Westerners hear about Chinese law usually pertains to human rights violations, examples of arbitrary official conduct and a weak judiciary. While these problems remain critical, they tend to overshadow an equally important, though less headline-ready, topic: How laws are drafted in China and what that means for the country’ progress toward greater legality.


Legislative drafting has been going on quietly for decades, and some of the results of these efforts were on display at a presentation by Chinese officials given as part of an annual bilateral legal exchange program held recently in San Francisco."

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