Monday, October 29, 2012
Official guidelines for legal research in China
Rogier Creemers, a member of the Chinalaw listserv, recently had an interesting post on legal research in China. With his permission, it's reproduced here:
Through a discussion with colleagues, I became
interested in the question of what China's policy is in terms of conducting and
supporting legal research, with a few people. Personally, I found that, over
the years of dealing with Chinese researchers and graduate application, most
proposals I would get are remarkably similar, and in the vein of: "I want
to research the function of [insert doctrinal concept] in a number of advanced
jurisdictions, such as the US, UK, Germany and [insert country to which application
is made], and write a chapter on how this should be implemented in China.] In
other words, very instrumental and positivist. So I decided to look fora few
documents on this, and one thing I found was an Opinion on legal research of
the China Law Society, China's academic association for the legal sphere. It
includes interesting passages on the context of legal research, its connection
to practice and the function of international exchange.
I thought this might be
useful for some list members as well, so please find it here:
http://chinacopyrightandmedia.wordpress.com/2005/08/11/china-law-society-opinions-concerning-further-letting-legal-research-flourish/
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/china_law_prof_blog/2012/10/official-guidelines-for-legal-research-in-china.html