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Socialist Law in Socialist East Asia by Hualing FU, John GILLESPIE, Pip NICHOLSON, and William Edmund PARTLETT (eds) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xiv + 448 pp. Hardcover: USD 125

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2019

Ewan SMITH
Ewan SMITH*
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University of Oxford
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Asian Journal of Comparative Law , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , December 2019 , pp. 373 - 379
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Shaw Foundation Research Fellow, Jesus College, University of Oxford.

References

1. These jurisdictions are compared in, for example, Chen, Albert HY (ed), Constitutionalism in Asia in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press 2014)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2. Gillespie, John & Nicholson, Pip (eds), Asian Socialism & Legal Change: The Dynamics of Vietnamese and Chinese Reform (Australian National University Press 2005)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3. Gillespie, John & Chen, Albert HY (eds), Legal Reforms in China and Vietnam: A Comparison of Asian Communist Regimes (Routledge 2010)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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6. See Donald Clarke, ‘Shen Kui and his Three Questions’ Chinese Law Prof Blog (31 Jan 2015) <https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/china_law_prof_blog/2015/01/shen-kui-and-his-three-questions.html> accessed 18 Sep 2019. See also Kamenka, Eugene & Tay, Alice Erh-Soon, ‘Beyond the French Revolution: Communist Socialism and the Concept of Law’ (1971) 21 University of Toronto Law Journal 109CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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8. Golunskii, & Strogovich, , ‘The Socialist State as a Working Class Dictatorship’, in Babb, Hugh (tr), Soviet Legal Philosophy (Harvard University Press 1951) 355Google Scholar.

9. See eg William Partlett's chapter in this book: ‘The Historical Roots of Socialist Law’, 37. Michael Dowdle makes a contrary argument in his chapter: ‘What is Not ‘Socialist’ about Socialist Law’, 31.

10. See Hazard, John, ‘Socialist Law as an Academic Discipline’ (1987) 61 Tulane Law Review 1279Google Scholar.

11. Hudson Lockett, ‘China anti-corruption campaign backfires’ Financial Times (10 Oct 2016) <https://www.ft.com/content/02f712b4-8ab8-11e6-8aa5-f79f5696c731> accessed 18 Sep 2019 (describes the transfer of responsibility from the Procuratorate to party supervisory bodies).

12. See eg 中国共产党纪律处分条例, 2018年修订，自2018年10月1日起施行 [Disciplinary Regulations of the Chinese Communist Party, revised in 2018, effective from 1 Oct 2018], art 3.

13. Potter, Pitman, From Leninist Discipline to Socialist Legalism: Peng Zhen on Law and Political Authority in the PRC (Stanford University Press 2003)Google Scholar elaborates this distinction.

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18. Fuller (n 14).

19. Osakwe, Chris, ‘The Greening of Socialist Law as an Academic Discipline’ (1987) 61 Tulane Law Review 1257, 1259Google Scholar.

20. ibid 1260.

21. ibid.

22. ibid 1262.

23. Osakwe noted that they are ‘not totally devoid of any redeeming value’: ibid 1261.

24. See eg Wendy Ng's chapter in the book: ‘The Influence of Socialist Principles on the Legal Regulation of Markets in China’, 351 et seq.

25. Value-led, comparative studies of legal systems, such as Craig, Paul, Public Law and Democracy in the United Kingdom and the United States of America (Oxford University Press 1991)CrossRefGoogle Scholar adopt this approach.