Title: Law Without Law, or Is "Chinese Law" an Oxymoron?
Abstract: the Study of Law and Culture and Senior Fellow at the Center for Chinese Legal Studies, Columbia Law School. J.D. Yale; A.B., A.M. (East Asian Studies), Stanford. Many thanks to Lan Cao for her role in organizing this symposium, and to David Eng, Ben Liebman, and Julia Ya Qin for their comments on an earlier draft of this essay. My research was supported generously by Dean Claudio Grossman at American University. 1 CLIFFORD GEERTZ, Local Knowledge: Fact and Law in Comparative Perspective, in LOCAL KNOWLEDGE: FURTHER ESSAYS IN INTERPRETIVE ANTHROPOLOGY 167, 168 (1983). 2 This symposium contribution grows out of a longer essay delineating a genealogy of “legal Orientalism,” or the ways in which Euro-American writings on Chinese law have served to confirm certain commonsense views of legality and the nature of the legal subject. See generally Teemu Ruskola, Legal Orientalism, 101 MICH. L. REV. 179 (2002). LAW WITHOUT LAW, OR IS “CHINESE LAW” AN OXYMORON?
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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