Review of Shucheng Wang, Law as an Instrument: Sources of Chinese Law for Authoritarian Legality (Cambridge University Press 2022)

Abstract

This brief note reviews Shucheng Wang’s Law as an Instrument: Sources of Chinese Law for Authoritarian Legality. It finds that the author provides a well-informed, in-depth exploration of the sources of Chinese law and offers rich food for thought on these and other questions in the world of Chinese legal studies. The author brings a good sense of the political realities of the Chinese legal system to his study.

Keywords: China, Chinese law, civil procedure, transnational litigation

JEL Classification: K15, K40