China’s Troubled Legal Profession

Far Eastern Economic Review, May 2008

Posted: 25 Mar 2010

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Eva Pils

The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London, Dickson Poon Transnational Law Institute

Date Written: May 2008

Abstract

The forms of law can still be used against Chinese rights activists far more effectively than they can use the law to support their own causes, because many of these causes represent a political challenge that China’s leadership is unwilling to tolerate. Probably as a consequence of their own early successes, human-rights lawyers have in recent years been subjected to increasing pressures, not only from the police, public prosecution authorities and justice bureaus, but also from the associations supposed to represent their own interests, as this article discussed using the example of Chinese human rights lawyers' deregistration.

Keywords: CHina, human rights defenders, lawyers, bar associations

Suggested Citation

Pils, Eva, China’s Troubled Legal Profession (May 2008). Far Eastern Economic Review, May 2008, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1563922

Eva Pils (Contact Author)

The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London, Dickson Poon Transnational Law Institute ( email )

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