China's Human Rights Lawyers

This book offers a unique insight into the role of human rights lawyers in Chinese law and politics. In her extensive account, Eva Pils shows how these practitioners are important as legal advocates for victims of injustice and how bureaucratic systems of control operate to subdue and marginalise them. The book also discusses how human rights lawyers and the social forces they work for and with challenge the system.

Auteur

Eva Pils is Reader in Transnational Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London. She studied law, philosophy and sinology in Heidelberg, London and Beijing, qualified as a lawyer in Germany and holds a PhD in law from University College London. Her scholarship focuses on human rights and the law in China, with publications addressing the role and situation of Chinese human rights lawyers, land and eviction rights, criminal justice, access to justice and conceptions of justice in China. Her publications on these topics have appeared in academic publications as well as in the popular press. She has held appointments at New York University Law School, Cornell University Law School, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, and is a non-resident senior research fellow at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute of New York University Law School.

Contenu

1. Perspectives on human rights advocacy in China 2. Quests for justice and legal advocacy in Chinese history 3. The place of rights advocacy in 'the System' 4. Courtroom advocacy5. Bureaucratic control of the legal profession 6. Relationship with the security apparatus 7. Resistance and wider legal political advocacy 8. Stability, reform and rights advocacy