Charles R. Epp. “The Legal Complex In The Struggle To Control Police Brutality In India.” In Fates of Political Liberalism in the British Post-Colony: The Politics of the Legal Complex. Edited by Terence C. Halliday, Lucien Karpik, and Malcolm M. Feeley, pp. 91-111. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2012. This chapter examines the Indian legal …
David T. Johnson and Setsuo Miyazawa. “Japanese Court Reform on Trial.” In The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice: Studies Inspired by the Work of Malcolm Feeley. Edited by Rosann Greenspan, Hadar Aviram, and Jonathan Simon, pp. 122-138. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2019. This chapter evaluates contemporary court reform in Japan, arguing that …
Malcolm M. Feeley, ed., and Setsuo Miyazawa. “The State, Civil Society, and the Legal Complex in Modern Japan: Continuity and Change.” In Fighting for Political Freedom: Comparative Studies of the Legal Complex and Political Liberalism. Edited by Terence C. Halliday, Lucien Karpik, and Malcolm M. Feeley, pp. 151-192, Oxford, U.K: Hart Publishing, 2007. This chapter …
Carol Jones. “Dissolving the People’: Capitalism, Law and Democracy in Hong Kong.” In Fighting for Political Freedom: Comparative Studies of the Legal Complex and Political Liberalism. Edited by Terence C. Halliday, Lucien Karpik, and Malcolm M. Feeley, pp. 109-150, Oxford, U.K: Hart Publishing, 2007. In this chapter, author Carol Jones challenges the conventional assumption that …
Sida Liu. “Birth of a Liberal Moment? Looking Through a One-Way Mirror at Lawyers’ Defence of Criminal Defendants in China.” In Fighting for Political Freedom: Comparative Studies of the Legal Complex and Political Liberalism. Edited by Terence C. Halliday, Lucien Karpik, and Malcolm M. Feeley, pp. 65-107, Oxford, U.K: Hart Publishing, 2007. This chapter analyzes …
John Ohnesorge, “Regulation of the Legal Profession in China,” China Law and Society Review, 2023. This article analyzes the historical evolution and regulation of the legal profession in China, from imperial times to the contemporary Xi Jinping era. It begins by examining the role of law and “proto lawyers” in imperial China, where legal intermediaries …
Qin Ma. “Who are the Chinese Sǐkē (Diehard) Lawyers?—A Belated Clarification.” China Law and Society Review, vol. 10, no. 1 (2025): 1-50. This article explores the emergence and evolution of Sǐkē lawyers, a distinctive group of Chinese criminal defense lawyers who rose to prominence around 2009. Known for their zealous advocacy, emphasis on procedural rights, …
Eva Pils. “From Independent Lawyer Groups to Civic Opposition: The Case of China’s New Citizen Movement.” Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal, vol. 19, no. 1 (2017): 110-152. This article explores how lawyers in authoritarian and backsliding regimes, specifically China, shift from legal professionals to civic activists in response to systemic institutional dysfunction. The article centers …
Sida Liu, Ching-Fang Hsu, and Terence C. Halliday. “Law as a Sword, Law as a Shield. Politically Liberal Lawyers and the Rule of Law in China.” China Perspectives, vol. 2019, no. 1 (2019): 65-73. This article investigates how politically liberal lawyers in China and Hong Kong understand and utilize the concept of the rule of …
Hualing Fu. “The July 9th (709) Crackdown on Human Rights Lawyers: Legal Advocacy in an Authoritarian State.” Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 27, no. 112 (2018): 554-568. This article examines the 2015 crackdown on human rights lawyers in China, situating it within the broader political context of increasing authoritarian control. It analyzes the emergence and …