Stanley Lubman Downplays Impact of China’s Criminal Law Reform

The Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2012 by Stanley Lubman
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How the new law operates will depend on the mindset of participants in the Chinese “political-legal system” who will be required to put the law into practice…. An illuminating new piece of research demonstrates that it will take more than revising laws on paper to raise the level of legality of China’s criminal justice given the value system that underpins it.