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Climbing the Weiquan ladder: a radicalizing process for rights-protection lawyers / Hualing, Fu; Cullen, Richard

Cullen, Richard	Journal Article
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2011.

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It is commonly acknowledged that weiquan lawyers operate in a narrow space, and lawyers with a radical stance work within a harsh environment. Weiquan lawyers advance and retreat in response to the changing macro-political-legal environment, but there is no sign that they are giving up their legal struggles. A steadily growing number of weiquan lawyers are tending to become more radical in their approach as their experience advances. This article studies the process in which weiquan lawyers start and sustain weiquan lawyering in a harsh environment and the factors that contribute to the radicalizing process. Its principal purpose is to identify and explain a radicalization process in which a lawyer climbs up the ladder of weiquan lawyering, from a moderate lawyer providing legal aid in individual cases to a critical or radical lawyer.

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Radicalization ; Weiquan Lawyers ; Radical Lawyer

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Of judge quota and judicial autonomy: an enduring professionalization project in China / Sun, Ying; Hualing, Fu

Hualing, Fu	Journal Article
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This article presents the findings of original research on “judge quota” reform. The reform's agenda was essentially aimed at professionalization: by edging out a given percentage of judges, only the better qualified judges would be re-appointed to create a more professionalized judiciary. A key component of the reform was to reduce the level and the intensity of both political and bureaucratic control over judges in adjudication and to decentralize judicial power to the rank-and-file judges, restoring individualized judging while enhancing judicial accountability. This article critically examines the potential and limits of the judge quota reform in the context of incremental legal reform in a party-state.

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China ; Legality ; Judicial Reform ; Judicial Autonomy ; Professionalism ; Quota Judge

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