Riding the Tiger: Legitimacy and Legal Culture in Post-Mao China

1994 ◽  
Vol 138 ◽  
pp. 325-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pitman B. Potter
Keyword(s):  
Economic Reform ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Specific Stage

Efforts at legal reform in China under the banner of the socialist legal system (shehui zhuyi fazhi) represent an attempt by the post-Mao regime to rest legitimacy in part on an ideology of formal law that complements the regime's efforts at economic reform. While the Party has not abandoned its reliance on the conceit that it represents the forces of historical revolution, the establishment of the socialist legal system is aimed to some extent at addressing a more immediate challenge of retaining legitimacy in the eyes of a populace for whom abstract notions of historical determinacy have little meaning. Proponents of reform have linked these abstract and practical aspects of legitimacy by asserting that legal reform is a requirement of the specific stage of historical development in which China now finds itself.

JUDICARY OF JUDGES OF PEACE IN PETTY CRIMINAL CASES – LEGISLATIVE PERSPECTIVE

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (XIX) ◽  
pp. 143-158
Author(s):  
Pior Kruszyński ◽  
Jan Kil
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Legislative Proposals

The article is devoted to the institution of the judges of peace. The study presents the essence of the judiciary of the judges of peace. The study presents regulations concerning the judges of peace appearing in Polish legislation over its historical development. A comparative legal analysis was also performed, with particular focus on Anglo-Saxon legal culture. The publication presents legislative proposals related to the postulated introduction of the institution of peace judges into the Polish legal system in terms of petty criminal cases, as well as the advantages of such a judiciary. The article formulates proposals regarding the scope of cognition of the judges of peace as well as the basic rules of the criminal proceedings conducted before them.

scholarly journals How does the evaluation categories of the legislation affect on the law enforcers of justice

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-51
Author(s):  
K E Kovalenko
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
The State ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Separate Study

The relevance of the research topic due to the theoretical and practical significance of the requirements of reasonableness in solving issues of law and the development of organic elements of the legal system of the Russian society. The level of legal culture of society depends not only on the state of quality of its individual elements, but their consistency, correspond to each other. Provide reasonable legal regulation is one of the important directions of legal reform becomes a problem of legal science in general, requires a comprehensive research. These issues have not received a separate study on monographic level.

Penerapan Hukum Wakaf Uang di Indonesia Perspektif Legal System Theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masdar Masdar
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Muslim Society ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Government

Cash waqf in Indonesia has been long enough implemented based on some rules enacted by government and other rules defined by The Waqf Board of Indonesia (BWI). However, the implementation of cash waqf has not reached the level of success. Therefore, this article studies the application of cash waqf law in Indonesia according to Friedman’s legal system theory. The legal system theory of Friedman firstly looks at the substance of the law, which is the rules or regulations; and secondly it examines the structure of the law, encompassing the law enforcement agencies, such as judge, prosecutor, police and legal counselors. And lastly the theory examines the element of legal culture, which is a response from Muslim society. The first two examinations indicate that there is nothing to be a problem. But from the last examination there is a problem regarding the trust from Muslim society. From the legal culture point of view, the implementation of cash waqf by the government, which is performed by BWI, needs attracting society’s credentials in order to improve and maximize the performance of cash waqf in Indonesia.

Convergence in the procedural branches of law: prospects for judicial law and the criminal process

2021 ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Aliya R. Sharipova
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Natural Consequence ◽  
Criminal Process ◽  
Different Types

Differentiation of justice into several sectors, depending on the material and legal features of resolved cases, once became a natural consequence of the historical development of the legal system. However, an analysis of the procedural rules and institutions attributed by the legislator to different procedural branches gives reason to assert that there are much more similarities between different types of judicial activity than is commonly believed, differences do not always have objective grounds, and intersectoral procedural convergence once again updates the idea of judicial law, supported by the author.

The Approach to European Law in Domestic Legislation

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 1255-1275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Leible
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
European Law ◽  
Legal Professionals ◽  
Domestic Legislation ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Common ◽  
Broad Interpretation ◽  
Teleological Interpretation

National legislators approach European law very differently. The reason for these differences lies partly in the historical development of their individual legal cultures. If one pursues a broad interpretation of the term ‘legal culture’ one takes especially into account the style of law and the attitude toward it. Thus legal culture can be defined as the Continental civil law countries’ ideal of a “concise, but comprehensive codification by which the judge can derive solutions for all possible cases through teleological interpretation;” whereas the common law rather limits this concept to “special laws which are interpreted very narrowly by the courts and accordingly are designed by the legislator to the last detail”. Furthermore, one could include the status of a judge, the nature of legal discourse, or the training of legal professionals, as well as the respect accorded to the law by the population when defining the concept of ‘legal culture'.

scholarly journals Historical Development over Religious Liberty in the Indonesian Constitution

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-74
Author(s):  
Mahaarum Kusuma Pertiwi
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
The Other ◽  
Constitutional Amendment ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Political Consensus

This paper finding is the existence of recurring unsettled negotiation between the Islamists and the Nationalists during three important constitutional works in Indonesia (the making of 1945 Constitution; the work of Konstituante to draft a new constitution in 1955-1959; and the constitutional amendment 1999-2002). Such fragile political consensus creates a legal gap in the Indonesian legal system: constitutional guarantee on religious liberty on one hand, and discriminative derivative laws and court decisions in relate to religious liberty on the other hand. This paper argues the legal gap happens because historically, discourse over religious liberty never settled during constitutional debates. It leads to ambiguous constitutional articles on religious liberty such as the seemingly contradicting Article 28 I (1) on absolute rights and Article 28 J (2) on the limitation of rights. The ambiguous constitutional articles give no solid basis for protecting religious liberty, especially for minority, although explicitly Article 29 (2) of the Constitution stating, ‘The State guarantees freedom of every inhabitant to embrace his/ her respective religion and to worship according to his/ her religion and faith as such’. This paper will explain the unsettled negotiations during the making of Pancasila and the Jakarta Charter in 1945; the debate within Konstituante’s work in 1959; and the debate during constitutional amendment in 1999-2002.

scholarly journals Digital Law and Problems of Gradual Transformation of the Russian Legal System

Lex Russica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (9) ◽  
pp. 9-18
Author(s):  
V. N. Sinyukov
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legal Tradition ◽  
Legal Form ◽  
Culture Development ◽  
Digital Law ◽  
Gradual Transformation

The relevance of the topic of the balance between the system of law and processes of digitalization of legal regulation is preconditioned by fundamental changes that are taking place in the legal system of Russia due to current technological challenges. The author qualifies changes under consideration as the processes of gradual transformation of law and its system. The article explores the dynamics of evolution of the legal understanding of the world due to technical progress. The author concludes that the new technological lifestyle pattern changes not only the usual lifestyle of people, but also the nature of legal regulation. The problem of consistent legal interpretation of the technological revolution is presented. It is concluded that the preservation of the systemic unity of the legal form is possible on the basis of the step-by-step revision of foundations of macroorganization of law. The paper demonstrates the difference between the current period of development of law and the classical epoch that proves the fact that the legal culture is about to include the virtual world into its subject matter. A sectoral approach based on monodimensional or complex subjects and methods of legal regulation can no longer provide for the comprehensive understanding of the nature of law. The paper depicts the evolution of notions of the norm and institute of law on the basis of symbiosis of deontic and behavioral elements that characterize the concept of legal technology. The conclusion about normativity of technological processes is made. The article substantiates the place and role of digital law in the process of gradual transformation of the legal system. The article justifies the provision that digital law performs the function of restructuring the legal system. The article reveals the subjects and methods of digital law as a source of law having impact on social relations. The author suggests the concepts of digital environment that creates a new type of lawyerism, namely: digital and analog law, and describes the correlation between them. The author puts forward the hypothesis of fundamental and applied law, describes their subject areas. On the basis of the analysis of the structural evolution of the legal system in the context of technological changes, the author provides for the forecast of parameters of the future legal order. It is concluded that conflicts of virtual and classical legal orders can be resolved under norms of digital law that eliminate the contrasting sides of legal permits and prohibitions. The author poses the issues regarding subjects of digital legal culture development, the new legal language, the role of analog law in restructuring the legal system, the balance between digital law and national legal tradition. The hypothesis of national models of digitalization of legal culture is put forward.

scholarly journals PERLINDUNGAN HAK WARGA NEGARA ATAS LINGKUNGAN HIDUP YANG SEHAT DIKAITKAN DENGAN MANFAAT PENERIMAAN NEGARA DARI PRODUKSI ROKOK

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1328
Author(s):  
Billy Samuel ◽  
Rasji .
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Health Services Need ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right

Cigarettes is a culture that has existed since time immemorial and has come down to the heir of the nation to this day, cigarettes which initially is a habit that is done to fill the vacuum of time, has now turned into something that makes people dependence on cigarettes. Therefore based on the 1945 Constitution of the State of the Republic of Indonesia in Article 28H paragraph (1) states that the right of citizens to obtain a good and healthy environment, and get good health services, need to be regulated further about health, especially the imposition cigarette. Now cigarettes that use tobacco which is one of addictive substances, has been regulated further by Law Number 36 Year 2009 About Health which is one of the realization of the ideals of the Constitution Article 28H Paragraph (1). However, control isn’t enough, in fact the government only carries the imposition of excise products that containing addictive substances. The research method used is normative legal research method that comes from primary, secondary, and supported by interview with related experts, which is analyzed deductively. In addition, the theory of the legal system not only refers to the substance of the law but also supported the legal culture that is more directed to the attitude of society, public confidence, values adopted by society and their ideas or expectations that determine how the legal system to obtain a place that is appropriate and acceptable to citizens within the framework of better society culture for Indonesia.

scholarly journals MALDIVIAN LEGAL SYSTEM: ISLAMIC INFLUENCE AND LEGAL REFORM

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-98
Author(s):  
Mohamed Ibrahim ◽  
Ahmad Hidayat Buang
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Reform
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