Alert! (China's legal system on TV)
The PBS documentary series Wide Angle tonight (July 3) broadcasts The People's Court about attempts to create a new legal system and a rule of law in China. (Check your local schedule.)Bringing the Rule of Law to China at Breakneck Speed
"The Western legal system, in its purest form, fulfills an elaborate and even awesome fantasy. There are profound grievances redressed, melodramas of good and evil and pots of gold that change hands, often in unexpected ways (sometimes even from rich to poor)."The existential thrill of the rule of law — something we hear about infrequently, if ever, in the West — is on display tonight on “The People’s Court,” on PBS. The nation discovering the law’s maddening charms, as if for the first time, is China, which has been compelled to develop a new legal framework in tandem with its breakneck economy. In the last 25 years the country has opened nearly 400 law schools, in which the brand-new individual-rights-based law is taught, and hundreds of thousands of judges and lawyers have hastily been trained..."
posted by Ken Wedding @ 7:54 AM
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