• Chinese Public Law
• Chinese Practice in Public International Law
• Legal Transfers
• Legal Culture

Description:
Chinese scholarly discourse on constitutional development and the theory and practice of fundamental rights has been gradually changing from being dominated by concepts of rule of law and the constraint of governmental power to a discussion that focuses on 'constitutionalism with Chinese characteristics’ and rejects the previous cautious liberal reading of the written constitution as a symptom of ‘Western ideological hegemony’. This highly ideological debate goes hand in hand with an unprecedented official emphasis of rule-of-law rhetoric and far-reaching judicial reforms under the leadership of Xi Jinping. The current constitutional debate and its perception in Western scholarship on China, however, is not sufficiently informed by judicial practice, in particular the multifaceted ways in which Chinese courts implement fundamental rights and basic constitutional principles in their day-to-day practice. This project analyses and systemises the application by Chinese courts of laws and regulations that regulate areas falling within the sphere of protection of fundamental rights of the Chinese constitution. We investigate and categorise decisions in which Chinese courts apply the constitution directly and study current Chinese official and scholarly discourses on constitutionalism and the role of courts in constitutional development. Further, we will link discourses on Chinese constitutionalism with current fundamental rights jurisprudence in order to develop a sound theoretical framework that takes into account both theories of different schools of constitutionalism and court practice and contribute to the literature on courts and constitutional development in authoritarian regimes.

Support:
Thyssen Foundation

Duration:
2017 - 2019

Projektbeschreibung:

Als ein Teil des Projekts Einwanderung und Transformation der chinesischen Gesellschaft werden hier die sozialen Dynamiken und die Umsetzung des neuen chinesischen Ausländergesetzes von 2012 aus der Perspektive staatlicher und nicht-staatlicher Akteure untersucht.

Region: AsiaChina

Department: Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology Chinese Studies

Research Area: Citizenship and Migration

Person(s): Björn Ahl, Michaela Pelican

Period: 2014 - 2016

zusätzliche Informationen unter: gepris.dfg.de