On May 4th and 5th, Dr. Flora Sapio was invited
to the Conference “China Global”, held
at the University of
Cologne (Germany). Conference Program may be found here.
Dr.
Sapio presented a paper titled The Making of Global Norms With Chinese
Characteristics. The paper observed how the understanding of norm-making as a
process cannot take place absent an understanding of the constitutional
structure of nation-states.
The summary of the paper, and its research context within the research program of the Coalition for Peace and Ethics (here and here), follows.
In observing China, Western studies of
constitutionalism have privileged processes of norm making originating from
within the state apparatus. The state, however, is not the only actor involved
creating domestic and transnational norms. While the leadership role on norm
making processes originating from China belongs to the Communist Party of
China, mainstream Western scholarship has neglected to observe not only the
Communist Party of China and its system of regulations and rules. The Chinese
People’s Political Consultative Conference – an organization which pre-dates
the apparatus of China’s state – has been ignored, made an object of
de-legitimizing narratives, or else dismissed as a secondary actor.
The paper questioned this body of beliefs
through a close reading of various versions of the Constitution of the Chinese
People’s Political Consultative Conference, observing how the Political
Consultative Conference is part of the connective tissue linking the various
components of China’s constitutional apparatus.
The paper is among the results of the research
project “19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party: Documents and Assessment”. Launched by the Coalition for Peace and Ethics in November 2017,
the project has the goal to collect and analyze original language, unstructured
data relating to China’s constitutional
system as a whole since the 19th Congress. Some data has been made available to
the public in English, and can be
accessed via this link.
As part of the project, in the six months between
November 2017 and May 2018 the CPE has organized two round-tables, one
conference, and one educational event provided to the global public. A public
roundtable on the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference has been
planned for August 21, 2018 as part of its Summer-Autumn series: The Vanguard Governs in the “New Era”: A Focus on Chinese Political and Governing Institutions. Further events on the Chinese People’s
Consultative Conference will be announced in due course.
Dr. Sapio’s paper is based on a 10,000 words
commentary to the Constitution of China’s Political Consultative Conference.
Geared towards a broad audience and hence written in an informal tone, the commentary has
been published in two parts on Law at the End of the Day.
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