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Desmond Wee 
PSCI229 China’s Domestic Politics 
University of Pennsylvania 
Symbol of the Supreme People’s Court (SPC)
Donald Clarke, Peter Murrell, and Susan Whiting, “The Role of 
Law in China’s Economic Development,” in China’s Great 
Economic Transformation, (Cambridge University Press, 2008) 
chapter eleven, pp. 375-428
Problems of China’s Legal 
System Today 
 Significant gaps in legal structure governing economic 
activity 
 Lacks a number of institutional features that could be 
effective in identifying and reducing the inevitable 
gaps and ambiguities 
 “Local protectionism”: dependence of courts on local 
government and Party leaders 
 Corruption
Rights Hypothesis 
 “…[E]conomic growth requires a legal order offering 
stable and predictable rights of property and contract” 
However, 
 Clarke, Murrell & Whiting (CMW): “…provides little 
explanatory power for China.”
Functional Substitutes for Formal 
Institutions 
 Property Rights 
 Cadre evaluation system (Lecture 7; Whiting) 
 Fiscal system (Lecture 7; Whiting) 
 Local government ownership of township and village 
enterprises (TVEs) 
 Transactions in Goods & Services 
 Dual-track system 
 Footnote: Transitional institutions vs. Best-practice 
institutions (Qian, 2003)
Conclusion 
 The relationship between legal and economic 
development was bidirectional – a coevolutionary 
process 
 Have formal legal institutions contributed in an 
important way to China’s remarkable economic 
success? 
No, but instead… 
 Economic success has fostered the development of law, 
rather than the reverse.
Jerome Cohen’s Testimony to the Congressional-Executive 
Commission on China
Criminal Justice 
 Death penalty 
 Criminal Procedure Law (CPL) 
 No warrants 
 Arrest 
 Search 
 (Mostly) no bail/“release under guaranty pending trial” 
 Limited right to counsel 
 False confessions gained by torture 
 UN Convention Against Torture 
 Section 306 of the Criminal Law 
 Reeducation through labor (“laojiao”)
Major Defects 
 National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing 
Committee (NPCSC) reserves the sole power to modify 
legislation; interpret and apply the Constitution 
 The Chinese Constitution is not enforced 
 No judicial review for courts: invalidating legislation is 
prohibited 
 Conflict: courts must seek a resolution from a higher-level 
legislative body OR rule in accordance with the 
lower-level rule
Constitutional Review: 
The NPC Review Model 
 NPCSC 
 Law on Legislation 
 Sun Zhigang case 
 Limited review: 
 Administrative Litigation Law 
 State Compensation Law 
 Supreme People’s Court 
 2001 education case “Reply to Qi Yuling”; 2008 update 
 [Update:] 2011 SinaWeibo case 
 (Independent?) Constitutional Court?
Further reading 
 Judicial reform: Court orders 
http://www.economist.com/news/china/21591210-it-turns-out-torturing- 
people-confessions-isnt-all-right-after-all-court-orders 
 China’s Constitutional Crisis 
http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/09/chinas-constitutional- 
crisis/279285/ 
 Citizens’ Rights, the Constitution and the Courts 
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/09/26/citizens%E2%80 
%99-rights-the-constitution-and-the-courts/ 
 Chinese Judge Expresses Support for Free Speech on SinaWeibo 
in Ruling 
http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-judge-expresses-support- 
for-free-speech-on-sina-weibo-in-ruling-2011-9 
 A Comment on the Rise and Fall of the Supreme People’s Court’s 
Reply to Qi Yuling’s Case 
http://suffolklawreview.org/wp-content/ 
uploads/2013/01/Tong_AdvancePrint.pdf

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The Chinese Judiciary

  • 1. Desmond Wee PSCI229 China’s Domestic Politics University of Pennsylvania Symbol of the Supreme People’s Court (SPC)
  • 2.
  • 3. Donald Clarke, Peter Murrell, and Susan Whiting, “The Role of Law in China’s Economic Development,” in China’s Great Economic Transformation, (Cambridge University Press, 2008) chapter eleven, pp. 375-428
  • 4. Problems of China’s Legal System Today  Significant gaps in legal structure governing economic activity  Lacks a number of institutional features that could be effective in identifying and reducing the inevitable gaps and ambiguities  “Local protectionism”: dependence of courts on local government and Party leaders  Corruption
  • 5. Rights Hypothesis  “…[E]conomic growth requires a legal order offering stable and predictable rights of property and contract” However,  Clarke, Murrell & Whiting (CMW): “…provides little explanatory power for China.”
  • 6. Functional Substitutes for Formal Institutions  Property Rights  Cadre evaluation system (Lecture 7; Whiting)  Fiscal system (Lecture 7; Whiting)  Local government ownership of township and village enterprises (TVEs)  Transactions in Goods & Services  Dual-track system  Footnote: Transitional institutions vs. Best-practice institutions (Qian, 2003)
  • 7. Conclusion  The relationship between legal and economic development was bidirectional – a coevolutionary process  Have formal legal institutions contributed in an important way to China’s remarkable economic success? No, but instead…  Economic success has fostered the development of law, rather than the reverse.
  • 8.
  • 9. Jerome Cohen’s Testimony to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China
  • 10. Criminal Justice  Death penalty  Criminal Procedure Law (CPL)  No warrants  Arrest  Search  (Mostly) no bail/“release under guaranty pending trial”  Limited right to counsel  False confessions gained by torture  UN Convention Against Torture  Section 306 of the Criminal Law  Reeducation through labor (“laojiao”)
  • 11. Major Defects  National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee (NPCSC) reserves the sole power to modify legislation; interpret and apply the Constitution  The Chinese Constitution is not enforced  No judicial review for courts: invalidating legislation is prohibited  Conflict: courts must seek a resolution from a higher-level legislative body OR rule in accordance with the lower-level rule
  • 12. Constitutional Review: The NPC Review Model  NPCSC  Law on Legislation  Sun Zhigang case  Limited review:  Administrative Litigation Law  State Compensation Law  Supreme People’s Court  2001 education case “Reply to Qi Yuling”; 2008 update  [Update:] 2011 SinaWeibo case  (Independent?) Constitutional Court?
  • 13. Further reading  Judicial reform: Court orders http://www.economist.com/news/china/21591210-it-turns-out-torturing- people-confessions-isnt-all-right-after-all-court-orders  China’s Constitutional Crisis http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/09/chinas-constitutional- crisis/279285/  Citizens’ Rights, the Constitution and the Courts http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/09/26/citizens%E2%80 %99-rights-the-constitution-and-the-courts/  Chinese Judge Expresses Support for Free Speech on SinaWeibo in Ruling http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-judge-expresses-support- for-free-speech-on-sina-weibo-in-ruling-2011-9  A Comment on the Rise and Fall of the Supreme People’s Court’s Reply to Qi Yuling’s Case http://suffolklawreview.org/wp-content/ uploads/2013/01/Tong_AdvancePrint.pdf