Migration and Social Structure: The Spatial Mobility of Chinese Lawyers
In: Law & Policy, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 165-194
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In: Law & Policy, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 165-194
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On paper the state-run lawyer disciplinary system in China serves multiple interests: client protection, maintaining the reputation of the legal profession, upholding the rule of law, and safeguarding the party-state authority. This Article assesses which of these interests dominates in the lawyer disciplinary process by analyzing 122 published lawyer discipline cases from Zhejiang Province from 2007-2015. These records of lawyer discipline evidence an authoritarian political logic of attorney discipline, with punishment most clearly serving to safeguard the Communist Party's rule by keeping lawyers in bounds and tightly tied to their law firms. Subordinate to this are other state interests such as upholding the legal system and rule of law, as well as private interests of protecting firm income. Client protection is a secondary interest at best, with only a handful of cases having clear client-protection goals. The dominance of party-state interests reflects not only the socialist legacy, but also the persistence of an authoritarian legality in contemporary China.
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In: Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Band 30, Heft 2
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In: Asian journal of law and society, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 79-97
ISSN: 2052-9023
AbstractThe Chinese judicial system has long been influenced by a populist legal ideology that prioritizes public accountability and political legitimacy over professional autonomy. In recent years, however, the Chinese legal profession has begun to mobilize collectively, albeit episodically, to challenge this populism. Drawing on legal documents, interviews, media reports, and online discussions, this paper provides a scholarly analysis of the Li Zhuang case in 2009−11, in which the fate of an individual criminal defence lawyer was linked with the main ideological conflict in China's legal system and the highest-level political struggles in the Chinese state. It demonstrates that, although populism remains an intimidating force in China's judicial practice, lawyers, scholars, and other legal professionals may be laying a foundation for collective solidarity to pursue professionalism through their mobilization against populism.
In: Asian Journal of Law and Society, Band 1, S. 79-97
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In: Journal of professions and organization: JPO, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 1-19
ISSN: 2051-8811
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This article uses the case of law firms in Hong Kong to develop a processual approach for understanding lateral mobility in professional service firms. Based on the analysis of 1,461 lateral moves of law firm partners reported in 300 monthly issues of the official journal of the Law Society of Hong Kong during 1994–2018, as well as archival data and interviews conducted in Hong Kong, the article offers both a bird's-eye view of the lateral mobility of partners across law firms of different jurisdictional origins and an in-depth investigation of how elite law firms in this market, namely the Magic Circle and Wall Street firms, are influenced by the dynamics of professional flows. Theoretically, the article reconceptualizes professional service firms as organizations connected by and transform through the flows of professionals between them, a dynamic process characterized by three key concepts: waves, cycles, and turning points. In addition to its theoretical contribution, the study has broader implications for understanding Hong Kong's economic transformation since the 1990s, particularly after Hong Kong's handover to China in 1997 and the global financial crisis in 2008.
In: China perspectives, Band 2019, Heft 1, S. 65-73
ISSN: 1996-4617
In: China perspectives: Shenzhou-zhanwang, Heft 1, S. 65-73
ISSN: 2070-3449, 1011-2006
What does the rule of law mean in the Chinese context? Based on empirical research in Beijing and Hong Kong, this article examines the various ways politically liberal lawyers in China make sense of the rule of law in their discourses and collective action. Although the rule of law is frequently invoked by lawyers as a legitimating discourse against the authoritarian state, its use in practice is primarily for instrumental purposes, as both a sword and a shield. For activist lawyers in Beijing, the pursuit of judicial independence is nothing but a distant dream involving a restructuring of the state, and they therefore focus their mobilisation for rule of law around basic legal freedoms and the growth of civil society. By contrast, Hong Kong lawyers hold the autonomy of their judiciary as a paramount value mainly because it is a powerful defensive weapon against Beijing's political influence. The rule of law as a shield is only effective where its institutional and normative foundations are solid (as in Hong Kong), and it becomes little more than a blunt sword for lawyers where such foundations are weak or missing (as in mainland China). (China Perspect/GIGA)
World Affairs Online
In: Asian journal of law and society, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 273-297
ISSN: 2052-9023
AbstractGlobalization is rapidly changing the landscape of law practice in China, especially its corporate legal sector. This article reports on the preliminary findings of the China research of the Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies (GLEE) Project—a comparative study that examines how globalization is reshaping the market for legal services in important emerging economies and how these developments are contributing to the transformation of the political economy in these countries and beyond. Adopting an ecological approach, which examines how different segments of the legal system interact with one another in complex ways, this article maps the corporate core, international linkages, and domestic contexts of China's globalizing corporate legal sector and discusses its impact on lawyers and society.
In: Materials & Design, Band 47, S. 522-528
In: Materials and design, Band 226, S. 111694
ISSN: 1873-4197
In: Materials and design, Band 85, S. 60-66
ISSN: 1873-4197
In: Materials and design, Band 221, S. 110906
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In: Materials and design, Band 230, S. 111973
ISSN: 1873-4197