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Sida Liu - Cambridge Studies in Law and Society: Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work - 9781107162419 - V9781107162419
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Cambridge Studies in Law and Society: Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work

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Description for Cambridge Studies in Law and Society: Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work Hardback. .
Criminal Defense in China studies empirically the everyday work and political mobilization of defense lawyers in China. It builds upon 329 interviews across China, and other social science methods, to investigate and analyze the interweaving of politics and practice in five segments of the practicing criminal defense bar in China from 2005 to 2015. This book is the first to examine everyday criminal defense work in China as a political project. The authors engage extensive scholarship on lawyers and political liberalism across the world, from seventeenth-century Europe to late twentieth-century Korea and Taiwan, drawing on theoretical propositions from this body ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107162419
SKU
V9781107162419
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Sida Liu
Sida Liu is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, and a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 2016-17. He received his LLB from Peking University Law School and his PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago. He has written widely on Chinese law, sociolegal theory, ... Read more

Reviews for Cambridge Studies in Law and Society: Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work
'In Criminal Defense in China, Sida Liu and Terry Halliday draw together their rich theoretical and comparative backgrounds with unparalleled empirical work to produce what is by far the most probing study in any language of the nature and challenges of criminal defense work in the People's Republic of China.' William P. Alford, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard ... Read more

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