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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 1980 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0165-0300
- eISSN
- 1875-2985
- DOI
- 10.1163/157303580X00323
- Publisher site
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Abstract
405 The Criminal Law' of the People's Republic of China2 William C. Jones Professor of Law, Washington University, School of Law St. Louis, Missouri The task of students of Chinese law has shifted. Until now there have been almost no legal texts of the usual type-statutes and court decisions for instance 3 3 Students attempted to construct their own pictures of the Chinese legal system on the basis of extremely fragmentary information. No one was very happy . about the result. Now this all seems to have changed. On 1 July 1979, the National People's Congress enacted seven statutes which were immediately pub- lished. By 1 January 1980 all were in effect.' The four most important for students of the Chinese legal system are the Criminal Law, the Code of Criminal Procedure, the Organic Law of the People's Procuracy, and the Organic Law of the People's Courts. These statutes are particularly important in view of the statements that civil and commercial codes and a code of civil procedure will appear.' If this should happen, China would have all the basic elements of a western-style legal system. The foreign student could then settle down to the familiar task of
Journal
Review of Socialist Law (in 1992 continued as Review of Central and East European Law) – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1980