Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts Accountability and Participation without Democracy?: Public Law and Governance in China

VENUE:University of Pennsylvania Law School - Silverman Hall, Room 147

Accountability and Participation without Democracy?: Public Law and Governance in China

| Asia Program

About the Event

Chinese laws and institutions pledge many means for citizens to hold their government accountable and to influence the rules and policies that govern their lives.  Administrative law remedies—including rights to sue the state—have been developing for more than twenty years.  More recently emerging mechanisms include: open government initiatives, an expanded “right to know,” opportunities for public comment on proposed legislation and regulations, procedural requirements for lawmaking and rulemaking, calls from public intellectuals, the media and others for state authorities to strike down rules that conflict with higher laws and the constitution.  The new leadership that is coming to power in China has brought a new focus on the constitution and calls from public intellectuals and reformist scholars for more robust implementation of the constitution as a means to political reform.  How effective or promising are these many methods?  Do they, or can they, provide meaningful accountability of, and participation in, government in the absence of electoral democracy?

Panelists include:

Wang Xixin, Vice-Dean and Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for Public Participation, Peking University Law School; Provost’s Office Global Engagement Fund Visiting Scholar, and Bok Visiting International Professor, Penn Law School

Lin Yan, Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University Law School; Visiting Scholar, Penn Law School

Yuhua Wang, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

Neysun Mahboubi, Research Fellow, University of Connecticut Law School; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania

Jacques deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, Penn Law School; Deputy Director, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, and Director, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania

*Light lunch provided

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Venue

University of Pennsylvania Law School - Silverman Hall, Room 147

34th and Chestnut Streets
Philadelphia. PA. US. 19104


Registration

Free and open to the public.

University of Pennsylvania Law School
Silverman Hall Room 245A

Reservations are required. RSVP: events@fpri.org

For more information contact 215 732 3774, ext 303 or events@fpri.org.


Speakers

Wang Xixin

Wang Xixin

Lin Yan

Lin Yan

Yuhua Wang

Yuhua Wang

Neysun Mahboubi

Neysun Mahboubi

Jacques deLisle

Jacques deLisle - Jacques deLisle is the Chair of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is also the Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania.