Legal Reforms in China and Vietnam

Dr John Gillespie is Professor of Law and Director of the Asia Pacific Business Regulation Group, Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University. Albert H.Y. Chen is Chan Professor in Constitutional Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong.

• Part I Introduction. Chapter 1 Introduction: China and Vietnam Compared Albert Chen and John Gillespie. Chapter 2 Sequencing Chinese Legal Development Professor Randall Peerenboom. Part II Debating legal development in China and Vietnam. Chapter 3 Legal Thought and Legal Development in the People’s Republic of China Albert Chen. Chapter 4 The Juridification of State Regulation in Vietnam John Gillespie. Part III Developing an Administrative Law System. Introduction: Michael Dowdle. Chapter 5 Towards Regulatory Neutrality in a Party-State? A Review of Administrative Law Reforms in China Assistant Dr Zheng Ge. Chapter 6 Achievements and challenges in developing an administrative law system in contemporary Vietnam Vu Doan Ket and Matthieu Salomon. Part III Public access to justice. Introduction: Nicholas Booth. Chapter 7 Access to Justice in China: Potentials, Limits and Alternatives Fu Hualing. Chapter 8 Publication and Public Access: the largely inaccessible Vietnamese court decision Pip Nicholson. Part IV Commercial regulatory reforms. Introduction: Donald Clarke. Chapter 9 Commercial Regulatory Reform in China during Transition: An Alternative Path to the Regulatory State Assistant Dr Leng Jing. Chapter 10 Vietnam: The development of commercial regulation in Vietnam Melanie Beresford. Part V The evolving role of legal education Introduction: Jerry Cohen. Chapter 11 China’s Lawyers and their Training: Enduring Influences and Disconnects Alison Conner. Chapter 12 Legal Education in Vietnam: To Change or Not to Change? Bui Bich Thi Lien. Part VII Legal diffusion: the role of non-state actors in shaping the regulatory environment. Introduction: Michael Dowdle. Chapter 13 China: Business Lobbying in China in Comparative Perspective Scott Kennedy. Chapter 14 By-passing the state: Non-state regulation in Vietnam Nguyen Hung Quang. Conclusion: Reflections on legal development in China and Vietnam Albert Chen and John Gillespie.