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Approaching Visible Justice: Procedural Safeguards for Mental Examinations in China’s Capital Cases
BY ZHIYUAN GUO
The year 2008 not only witnessed China’s successful hosting of the Olympic Games, but also the regretful disposition of the Yang Jia homicide case. The case became a national sensation and received worldwide attention, and the ensuing debate over Yang Jia’s mental fitness and the legitimacy of mental examinations in the case served as the inspiration for this article. Preliminary research has found this issue not only to be important for protecting the rights of one of the most vulnerable segments of the population, but also to have far-reaching significance in improving due process generally.
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The Legal System of the PRC: Recent Developments, Current Assessment, Future Prognosis
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The Fate of China’s Rights Lawyers
By Jerome A. Cohen and Eva Pils
Chen Guangcheng — This blind lay advocate’s only ambition had been to help the weakest and neediest among his fellow rural residents to protect themselves against extortion and cruelty.
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PUBLIC OPINION AND CHINESE JUSTICE Interaction among courts, the media and public opinion is complex in every free country. The Internet magnifies the complexity. Even China, despite strict government controls, cannot escape it, as last summer’s famous Deng Yujiao case demonstrated.
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Audio: China and US Politics after Citizens United Former U.S.-Asia Law Institute research fellow Elizabeth Lynch appeared on Ian Masters‘ “Background Briefing” on KPFK 90.7 to express her views on how the Supreme Court’s opinion in Citizens United might give foreign corporations a larger voice in American electoral campaigns. The interview follows the recent online publication of an article, “Citizens United: U.S. Politics with Chinese [...]