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Recent Publications, Paul Heng-Chao Chen, Paul Hoffman, Gilbert Sharpe, Glenn Sawyer, Leon Friedman, Catharine A. Mackinnon, Edward Dumbauld
Recent Publications, Paul Heng-Chao Chen, Paul Hoffman, Gilbert Sharpe, Glenn Sawyer, Leon Friedman, Catharine A. Mackinnon, Edward Dumbauld
Vanderbilt Law Review
Chinese Legal Tradition Under the Mongols: The Code of 1291 as Reconstructed. By Paul Heng-chao Ch'en
The author's analysis of the "New Code" leads him to two conclusions: that the Yuan penal system was more lenient than its predecessors in imposing lesser punishments for minor offenses, and that the Mongol-Chinese partnership of the Yuan dynasty developed one of the most impressive and mature judicial systems that imperial China ever had for the administration of justice. He therefore argues that Chinese law in the time of Marco Polo was much less barbaric than has traditionally been thought.
Courthouse. By Paul Hoffman. …