The Rise of Lawyers' Movement for Rule of Law in China
| Autor: | Hsing-chung Wang, 王興中 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 97 Rights-defend lawyers, or “weiquan lushi,” have enjoyed an increasingly high profile in the Chinese and international media. This paper, through literature research and interviewing weiquan lawyers in China, studies the emergence of the growing group of private lawyers who are developing profiles as rights-defend lawyers who advocate for those unrepresented groups and for institutional reform. Chinese leaders had announced “‘socialist’ rule of law” as the “fundamental strategy of state governance,” but, in fact, they still use the newly established legal system and judiciary as tools to sustain the rapid economic boom and social-political stability at the same time. It is an instrumental version of rule-of-law the government has been pursuing, which stand opposite to the liberal version of the rights-defend lawyers. Chinese rights-defend lawyers has formed into a social movement for rule-of-law reforms with collective identity, informal network, and confrontational activism. They often intervened politically sensitive cases and represent the persecuted such as the political dissidents, the Falun Gong practitioners, the unregistered house church Christians, and peasants deprived of arable land. For now, they seldom succeed, and the government are tightening their control of the legal profession by means of disbarment of lawyer-activists, setting CCP cells in every law firms, and even physical violence. While the Chinese lawyers are running after the model of Taiwanese peaceful political transformation through piecemeal reform initiatives, the rulers in Beijing seems more inclined to the Singapore’s way of rule by law. These two trends are testing their strength to decide the future of rule-of-law in China. |
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