China’s legal system 40 years on: where to next?

Speakers

Keynote Speaker: Professor Susan Finder (Supreme People’s Court Monitor, Peking University School of Transnational Law)

Convenors: Dr Mimi Zou ( Faculty of Law, Oxford), Professor Vivienne Bath ( Sydney Law School, Director of the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the Univerty of Sydney)

Introduction

It has been 40 years since post-Cultural Revolution China opened the door and enacted its laws both to encourage foreign investment and to codify the criminal justice system. The process of issuing, rewriting and modifying laws, the legal system and the regulatory structure has continued unabated since that then. What is the role of law in Xi Jinping’s China? What will China’s legal system look like in the next 10 years or so? 

In this roundtable discussion, we invite all participants to make interventions addressing this broad theme from the standpoint of their research. Participants may critically analyse recent developments in the area(s) of law that they research and explore what can realistically be expected (in terms of prospective reforms or changes) over the next decade. The overarching objective of this roundtable is to scope out new and forward-looking research agendas in Chinese law. We would like to invite scholars (particularly early-career scholars) from all disciplines with diverse research interests in relation to Chinese law.

This event is cohosted with European China Law Studies Association.

Lunch will be served. Please contact Mimi Zou (mimi.zou@law.ox.ac.uk) for registration and any questions related to the event.