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

主要研究者：Heidi A. Ross和Ran Zhang标题：博士论文研究：这是我的权利：从正当程序保护看中国大学生法律的意识0719715摘要本研究通过对中国四所大学的大学生的调查和访谈，考察了与大学生正当程序权利有关的法庭文件、法律的判决、法律法规，并对中国大学生的法律的意识发展进行了解释。本研究将探讨正当程序权利对中国学生的意义，学生的法律的意识如何影响他们的法律的和非法律的行为，以及这种意识是否以及在多大程度上与个人和机构特征有关。该研究的主要命题是，权利意识不仅需要法律的规则的知识，但也有这样的规则背后的程序和实质性价值的认识和能力，使基于这些规则和价值观的“合法”审议。这一主张意味着，个人对正当程序权利的要求可以从三个角度得到证明：法规和条例的规定;法律的系统内部使教育和其他关键部门法律协调一致的压力;以及保护个人权利和利益的正义或更广泛的立法意图的呼吁。 中国学生权利是教育和法律研究中一个被忽视的领域。本研究将推进两位研究者在中国学生权利方面的早期工作，这是这一领域的第一套调查。这个项目也将填补一个重要的和明显的差距，在更大的奖学金权利，公民身份，在中国的阻力。中国的知识分子、房主和农民已经学会了利用国家体制内的政治机会来扩大他们的权利范围。 本研究将为这一文献提供重要的补充，阐明在向成年的关键过渡时期，学生权利意识的发展对中国社会的未来意义。 本研究对我国学生权利边界的拓展也具有现实意义。学生的法律的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，它可以激发弱势或弱势社会群体站起来，要求他们的权利，并影响社会变革。本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一个重要的机会。此外，本研究中阐明的证明法律的权利主张的多角度可能对中国学生有实际意义，他们在法庭和课堂上都在不断地争夺个人自由的边界。

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.