Flora Sapio, "Where's the Crisis in China's Legal System," TNote (Torino World Affairs Institute) No 10 (April 2016)

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We have been considering Jerome A. Cohen, “A Looming Crisis for China’s Legal System: Talented Judges and Lawyers are Leaving the Profession, as Ideology Continues to Trump the Rule of Law,” Foreign Policy (February 22, 2016)).

Part I: Larry Catá Backer
Part II: Flora Sapio
Part III: Jean Mittelstaedt
Part IV: Shaoming Zhou
Part V: 中外学者对中国法治改革的关注与讨论.
Part VI Sun Yuhua
Part VII White Jade; (English Version HERE)

A summary of some of out thoughts as well as additional insights have just been published.  My thanks to Flora Sapio for an excellent essay, Flora Sapio, "Where's the Crisis in China's Legal System," TNote (Torino World Affairs Institute)  No 10 (April 2016).  Professor Sapio starts:

A recent article by Jerome Alan Cohen on “A looming crisis for China's Legal System”, which appeared on Foreign Policy, has sparked a discussion among European, American, Chinese scholars and practitioners of Chinese Law. The intellectual leadership of Jerome Alan Cohen over Western studies of Chinese law and the clear vision he has established for the field led to a passionate debate over the nexus between law and politics in China, and on what is most critical about China’s legal system.

The essay follows.