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The 'Worthy' Unemployed: Societal Stratification And Unemployment Insurance Programs In China And The United States, Lucy A. Williams, Margaret Y. K. Woo
The 'Worthy' Unemployed: Societal Stratification And Unemployment Insurance Programs In China And The United States, Lucy A. Williams, Margaret Y. K. Woo
Margaret Y. K. Woo
This is a comparative study of the unemployment compensation schemes in China and in the U.S. The article emphasizes how the structure of unemployment scheme can add to or detract from the view of the unemployed as “worthy” or “unworthy.”
Adjudication Supervision And Judicial Independence In The P.R.C., Margaret Woo
Adjudication Supervision And Judicial Independence In The P.R.C., Margaret Woo
Margaret Y. K. Woo
This article examines how the judicial committee and the concept of “supervision” operate to enable and constraint judicial independence in the People’s Republic of China. By allowing the liberal reopening of final judgments, adjudication supervision can ensure justice by allowing the correction of errors but it can also place enormous institutional constraints on individual judicial work. Adjudication supervision reflects the belief that individual judicial work must be subjected to supervision by the masses, legal institutions such as the procuracy, and the state. Ultimately, judicial independence in China means the independence of the court as a whole and not the work …
Shaping Citizenship: Chinese Family Law And Women, Margaret Y. K. Woo
Shaping Citizenship: Chinese Family Law And Women, Margaret Y. K. Woo
Margaret Y. K. Woo
Current law-and-development literature overwhelmingly urges the privatization of the economy and the establishment of a rule-of-law system, which endows citizens with rights and obligations, with the expectation that democracy and equality will inevitably follow. My research interviewing female Chinese divorce litigants about their experiences in the Chinese court system capture a much more ambiguous effect of Chinese reforms on its citizens' sense of rights and entitlements. This article looks at China's recent legal and economic reforms through the eyes of male and female divorce litigants, and examines the kinds of citizenship rights that are being promoted through the Chinese court …
Civil Justice In China: An Empirical Study Of Courts In Three Provinces, Margaret Y. K. Woo
Civil Justice In China: An Empirical Study Of Courts In Three Provinces, Margaret Y. K. Woo
Margaret Y. K. Woo
This article offers a comparative study of legal reforms among different provinces in China. China is an enormous country, and it is often easy to generalize about the status of its legal system without taking account of the economic and social variations between provinces. A case brought in Beijing may not be litigated in the same way as a case brought over a thousand miles away in Guangzhou. This study collected data from 386 case files from the intermediate courts of Hubei, Guizhou and Guangdong. It is one of the first systematic examinations of civil litigation and court procedures in …