Legal Federalism in China

Download or read book Legal Federalism in China written by Jinhua Cheng and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article intends to develop a thesis of “legal federalism, with the Chinese style” and test it with an empirical study on China's labor law. It makes the following argument: (1) subnational governments in China have a quite high level of autonomy in exercising legal powers (including legislative and judicial powers) and such legal autonomy is institutionally guaranteed to the extent that these governments (in particular provincial-level governments) appear to be a quasi-legal sovereignty, which makes China a system of legal federalism; (2) legal federalism in China is not only de facto but also de jure in a sense. Not only can such a system of legal federalism be empirically proved, but also it has significant impacts on daily protection of legal rights in different localities.