I was reluctant at first to consider the invitation of the International Journal of Constitutional Law to comment on a Chinese scholar’s disquisition on the “socialist rule of law” in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). What might I expect? Another legal rationalization of the latest developments in China’s “people’s democratic dictatorship” by a scholar demonstrating regime loyalty in the tradition of the intellectual servants of the country’s millennial emperors? Or another ingenious attempt by one of the country’s liberal law professors to concoct a subtle theory that purports to remain consistent with the current Communist Party line while actually seeking to constrain it? [continue reading here]
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