Doctoral Dissertation Research: "This is My Right:" Understanding Students Legal Consciousness through Due Process Protection in Chinese Universities

博士论文研究：“这是我的权利：通过正当程序保护了解中国高校学生的法律意识”

• 批准号: 0719715
• 负责人: Heidi Ross
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-01 至 2009-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0719715&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; My; Right

Primary Investigators: Heidi A. Ross and Ran ZhangTitle: Doctoral Dissertation Research: This is My Right: Understanding Students Legal Consciousness through Due Process Protection in Chinese Universities0719715Abstract This study examines court documents, legal decisions, law and regulations relevant to students' due process rights, and survey and interview data from college students in four Chinese universities to explain the development of Chinese students' legal consciousness. The study will investigate what due process rights mean to Chinese students, how students' legal consciousness influences their legal and non-legal actions, and whether and to what extent this consciousness varies in relation to individual and institutional characteristics. The study's key proposition is that rights consciousness entails not only knowledge of legal rules, but also an awareness of the procedural and substantive values behind such rules and the capability to make situated "rightful" deliberation based on these rules and values. This proposition implies that an individual's claim of due process rights can be justified from three perspectives: provisions in statutes and regulations; internal pressure within the legal system to bring educational and other key sector laws into alignment; and the call of justice or broader legislative intent to protect individuals' rights and interests. Chinese students' rights are a neglected area of research in both education and law. This study will advance the two investigators' early work on students' rights in China, which represent the first set of inquiry in this area. This project will also fill an important and glaring gap in the larger scholarship on rights, citizenship, and resistance in China. Chinese intellectuals, home owners, and peasants have learned to leverage political opportunities within the state system to expand the boundaries of their rights. This study will add significantly to this literature by illuminating the future significance to Chinese society of the development of students' rights consciousness during a critical transition to adulthood. This study also has practical implications for the expanding boundary of students' rights in China. Students' legal consciousness is important not only as a concept worthy of scholarly analysis, but also in its generative power as a catalyst for galvanizing disadvantaged or less powerful social groups to stand up, claim their rights, and affect social change. This study provides a significant opportunity for documenting and examining the historical trajectory and current landscape of the development of students' due process rights in China. Furthermore, the multiple perspectives used in justifying claims to legal rights that are illuminated in this study may be of practical utility for Chinese students who are persistently contesting the boundary of individual freedom in both courtroom and classroom.

主要调查人员：海蒂·A·罗斯、冉章：博士论文研究：这是我的权利：通过正当程序保护了解中国高校学生的法律意识0719715摘要本研究考察了与学生正当程序权利相关的法院文书、法律判决、法律法规，以及对中国四所大学大学生的调查和访谈数据，以解释中国学生法律意识的发展。这项研究将调查正当程序权利对中国学生意味着什么，学生的法律意识如何影响他们的法律和非法律行为，以及这种意识是否以及在多大程度上与个人和制度特征有关。这项研究的关键主张是，权利意识不仅需要了解法律规则，而且还需要意识到这些规则背后的程序和实质价值，以及根据这些规则和价值观进行“正当”审议的能力。这一主张意味着，个人对正当程序权利的主张可以从三个角度得到证明：法规和条例中的规定；法律系统内部的压力，要求与教育和其他关键部门的法律保持一致；以及呼吁伸张正义或更广泛的立法意图，以保护个人的权利和利益。中国学生权利在教育界和法学界都是被忽视的研究领域。这项研究将推进两位研究者在《中国》中关于学生权利的早期工作，这是这一领域的第一次探索。这个项目还将填补中国关于权利、公民身份和抵抗的更广泛学术研究中的一个重要而明显的空白。中国的知识分子、房主和农民已经学会了利用国家体系内的政治机会来扩大他们的权利边界。这项研究将通过阐明在关键的成年过渡期间学生权利意识的发展对中国社会的未来意义，从而为这部文献增添重要的一笔。本研究对中国学生权利边界的拓展也具有现实意义。学生的法律意识不仅作为一个值得学术分析的概念很重要，而且作为一种催化剂，它可以激励处于不利地位或实力较弱的社会群体站出来，要求他们的权利，并影响社会变革。这项研究为记录和考察中国学生正当程序权利发展的历史轨迹和现状提供了重要的机会。此外，本研究所阐释的法律权利主张所使用的多个视角，对于那些在法庭和课堂上不断挑战个人自由边界的中国学生来说，可能具有实用价值。