Lawyers in the Pursuit of Basic Legal Rights: Criminal Defense in China

律师追求基本合法权利：中国的刑事辩护

• 批准号: 0850432
• 负责人: Terence Halliday
• 金额: $ 18.26万
• 依托单位: American Bar Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-04-01 至 2014-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0850432&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Lawyers; Pursuit; Basic; Legal; Rights

Lawyers in the Pursuit of Basic Legal Rights: Criminal Defense in ChinaTerence C. Halliday and Sida LiuThe development of basic legal rights and a legal profession to defend them is a crucial issue that is heavily debated within China and across the world. This study asks two key questions: What capacity do Chinese criminal defense lawyers have to defend individuals threatened with infringements of fundamental legal rights? And how are Chinese defense lawyers contributing to the development of a robust legal profession that protects basic legal freedoms? The project examines lawyers' ability to represent criminal defendants from five angles: (1) everyday lawyering, where practitioners play with and by the rules of criminal practice; (2) collective action by lawyers through networks, virtual communities and bar associations to advance basic legal freedoms; (3) cycles of criminal procedure law reform by the National Peoples Congress where rules of practice are forged; (4) the national and international media which provide public commentary on lawyers in criminal practice and influence their role within China; and (5) international influences on the shape of China's criminal justice system. Obtaining data from a variety of complementary perspectives, Halliday and Liu conduct 210 interviews with lawyers across China, undertake systematic analysis of Chinese and foreign media reports on criminal practice, engage in extensive archival research, and interview groups inside and outside China that seek to foster a strong criminal defense bar. Answers to these questions will go a long way towards understanding the achievements and impediments to rule of law in China. They will also show how domestic advocates inside China and supporters of the rule of law outside China can provide assistance to realize the emergence of a legal system in the PRC that is consistent with the United Nations' global norms.

追求基本法律的权利的律师：中国的刑事辩护。基本法律的权利的发展和捍卫这些权利的法律的职业是一个关键问题，在中国和世界各地都有激烈的争论。本研究提出了两个关键问题：中国刑事辩护律师有什么能力为受到基本法律的权利侵犯威胁的个人辩护？中国的辩护律师如何为保护基本法律的自由的强大法律的职业的发展做出贡献？ 该项目从五个角度审查了律师代表刑事被告的能力：（1）日常律师工作，从业人员利用并遵守刑事实践规则;（2）律师通过网络、虚拟社区和律师协会采取集体行动，促进基本法律的自由;（3）全国人民代表大会进行的刑事诉讼法改革周期，形成实践规则;（4）国内和国际媒体对律师在刑事实践中的公开评论，并影响他们在中国的作用;（5）国际对中国刑事司法制度的影响。 韩礼德和刘从各种互补的角度获取数据，对中国各地的律师进行了210次采访，对中外媒体有关犯罪行为的报道进行系统分析，进行广泛的档案研究，并采访中国境内外寻求建立强大刑事辩护律师队伍的团体。 对这些问题的回答将大大有助于理解中国法治的成就和障碍。他们还将展示中国国内的倡导者和中国境外的法治支持者如何提供援助，以实现中华人民共和国法律的体系的出现，与联合国的全球规范一致。