ABSTRACT
Although the adoption of market reforms has been a key factor leading to China’s recent economic growth, China continues to be governed by a communist party and has a socialist-influenced legal system. Vietnam, starting later, also with a socialist-influenced legal system, has followed a similar reform path, and other countries too are now looking towards China and Vietnam as models for development. This book provides a comprehensive, comparative assessment of legal developments in China and Vietnam, examining similarities and differences, and raising important questions such as: Is there a distinctive Chinese model, and/or a more general East Asian Model? If so, can it be flexibly applied to social and economic conditions in different countries? If it cannot be applied to a culturally and politically similar country like Vietnam, is the model transportable elsewhere in the world? Combining ‘micro’ or interpretive methods with ‘macro’ or structural traditions, the book provides a nuanced account of legal reforms in China and Vietnam, highlighting the factors likely to promote, change or resist the spread of the Chinese model.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|76 pages
Mapping the Chinese and Vietnamese Legal Development Models
part II|52 pages
Developing an administrative law system
chapter 5|25 pages
Toward regulatory neutrality in a Party-State?
chapter 6|21 pages
Achievements and challenges in developing a law-based state in contemporary Vietnam
part III|61 pages
Access to justice in China and Vietnam
part IV|52 pages
Commercial Regulation in China and Vietnam
chapter 9|28 pages
Commercial regulatory reform in China during transition
part V|51 pages
Legal education and the legal profession in China and Vietnam
chapter 12|21 pages
Legal education and the legal profession in contemporary Vietnam
part VI|49 pages
Legal diffusion