Chinese Courts
(1) Embeddedness v. Judicial Independence
• Grassroots bureaucracy v. legal institution
2) Administrative embeddedness
• collegial panel
• adjudication committee
olitical Embeddedness
(3) administra
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Chinese Courts
(1) Embeddedness v. Judicial Independence
• Grassroots bureaucracy v. legal institution
2) Administrative embeddedness
• collegial panel
• adjudication committee
olitical Embeddedness
(3) administrative cases
• nature of administrative law
• How do courts react to administrative cases
that they do not want to take?
Political Embeddedness II
(4) role of mediation in China
• How judicial mediation is done in China?
Social Embeddedness
(5) corruption – meaning and definition
• does judicial corruption always involve
monetary bribery?
Economic Embeddedness
(6) court funding and its operational autonomy
Divorce
(7) How courts rule contested divorces?
• “breakdown of mutual affection”
Good Samaritan Law
(8) The plight of doing good
• suspicion against good Samaritans
Changing demographics of judges
• changes since the 1990s/2000s about the
Chinese judiciary
Key Terms
• judicial independence
• Constitutionalism
• Luoyang Seed Case
• administrative embeddedness
• vertical hierarchy
• political embeddedness
• administrative cases
• civil cases Corruption & Guanxi
• What is the definition of corruption?
• Why corruption can be classified as financial and
non-financial?
• Is guanxi a form of corruption? Domestic Violence
• Is domestic violence common in China?
• What kind of cases most likely involved
allegations of domestic violence? Good Samaritan
• What is a “Good Samaritan” law?
• Does China have a “Good Samaritan” law?
• What happened in the case of Peng v. Xu?
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