Towards the Rule of Law in China

Weidong Ji was Dean and KoGuan Chair Professor of Law at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China from 2008-2018. Since 2018, he is University Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at SJTU and the President of the China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies. He has studied legal culture, law and social change in Asia, focusing on constitutional law, judicial reform as well as the legal profession. He has published over 100 academic articles and nearly 20 authored and edited books. He has received various awards, such as the First Prize of the Japan Association of Sociology of Law for Excellent Book (2001), the Top Ten Legal Books Which Influenced China During 1978-2014 (2014), and the Prize of an Excellent Book in the Humanities and Social Sciences by the Ministry of Education of China (2015). He is also the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Journal of Law and Society.

• Introduction. The structure of the book; 1. The conception of law in traditional China; 2. The essence of modern rule of law; 3. The Rule of Law: contemporary challenges and paradigmatic innovation; 4. A Rule-of-Law Democracy (Rechtsdemokratie): social diversification and reconstructing the system of authority; 5. Judicial reform in China: the status quo and future directions; 6. Reconstructing legal ideology; Appendix 1. Themed discussions of this book; Appendix 2. An interpretation of and reflection on china's cultural traditions; Appendix 3. China: the way to democracy via Rule of Law; Postscript; References; Index.