Recent scholarship on crime, law, and society in China and Japan has addressed the politics of globalization and legal reform in both countries, but political context is not self-revealing. The literature on China has focused too often on the role of the police in an authoritarian state without...

Globalization is rapidly changing the landscape of law practice in China, especially its corporate legal sector. This article reports on the preliminary findings of the China research of the Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies (GLEE) Project, a comparative study that examines how...

The legal profession’s maintenance of ‘rule-boundedness’ is not a simple choice between order and liberty or between ‘authoritarian or the anti-authoritarian powers’ as Max Weber put it. It is rather a complex and everyday balancing act between the toolkit of rules and the river of...