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1 China L. & Soc'y Rev. 1 (2016)

handle is hein.journals/clscy1 and id is 1 raw text is: CHINA LAW AND SOCIETY REVIEW 1 (2016) 1-4 CHINA LAW ... SOCIETY REVIEW BRILL brill.com/clsr China's Top-Down Sources of Law Introductory Essay to Issue i of the China Law and Society Review Benjamin van Rooil University of California, Irvine bvanrooi@law.uci.edu Mary Gallagher University of Michigan metg@umich.edu The China Law and Society Review seeks to provide a state-of-the-art under- standing about the development and functioning of law and legal institutions in China. Four decades into its legal reforms, Chinese law and legal institu- tions now form complex practices with great variation both over time and place. There is a rich body of work on Chinese law and society, both in law and socio-legal studies, but certainly also in political science, sociology, criminol- ogy, management science, economics, psychology, and anthropology. The field has witnessed intense specialization, to such extent that for most China law scholars it is virtually impossible to stay abreast of existing knowledge about Chinese law and society outside of their own particular area of interest. And for the growing body of practitioners in public and private practice whose work forces them to understand Chinese law and society, academic research is very hard to access, either because of the paywalls that restrict non-academic usage, or because of the jargon and complex methodology studies use. The China Law and Society Review aims to provide accessible overviews of what we know and do not know about how law and legal institutions func- tion in everyday practice. As a journal of law and society, our focus on law in practice requires an interdisciplinary perspective and attention to different methodologies and data sources. The law and society perspective is fundamen- tally about how people experience law, how law functions in society alongside other institutions, norms, and discourses. Issues will therefore center on the institutional lay of the land, including courts, the legal profession, legislators, prosecutors, the media, the Chinese Communist Party, and civil society organi- zations. Other issues will look in more depth at the development and function- ing of substantive areas of law, including tort, labor, environment, intellectual @ KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2017 DOI 10.1163/25427466-OO101001

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