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Internet development and its influences on the legal system and legal reforms in China / Bin, Liang

Bin, Liang	Article
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This article focuses on potential influences of internet use and development on China’s legal system and legal reforms. It examines this issue in both directions: how the Chinese government has been utilising the internet as a tool to strengthen its legal system and fulfil its reform goals, and how the public has responded in both responsive and proactive ways in an interactive and inter-evolving process. While the responsive public participation is answering initiatives from the government in nature, the proactive public participation is self-initiated. In recent years, it is the latter that has carried the greater weight in China’s internet politics. The Chinese government of the future may face challenges as it grapples with the question of how to simultaneously maintain information control while utilising internet technology as a tool to further its reforms.

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Mismatched Perceptions Between Assessors and Others: an Empirical Examination of the People’s Assessor System in China / Bin, Liang ; Qinlin, Zhang ; Kai, Kuang

Bin, Liang	Journal Article
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Despite efforts to rejuvenate the people’s assessor system in recent years, it still suffers from a number of problems such as elitism in the selection of assessors and the lack of meaningful assessor participation and function. Past empirical studies in this field are still limited, and to date, none has compared assessors’ perceptions about the system with those of judges and other key participants. Based on survey and interview data conducted in Hunan province, this study adopts a mixed method approach to examine potential perception mismatches between assessors and other legal practitioners in the existing system. Findings suggest that there exist significant disjunctions between what assessors are capable of and desire to accomplish and what others believe. Often, Chinese judges and legal professionals have underestimated the potential values and contributions of the assessors. Such perception mismatches hinder the practice of the system, and have a real effect on assessor motivation and performance.

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