Judicial Mediation in China

中国的司法调解

• 批准号: 1252067
• 负责人: Kwai Ng
• 金额: $ 22.59万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-03-01 至 2016-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1252067&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Judicial; Mediation; China

This project is an empirical study of the use of judicial mediation in the Chinese legal system today. Judicial mediation has become increasingly prevalent in the past decade in China. Judicial mediation has become a model for resolving not just legal disputes, but broader, extralegal disputes. About the same time as judicial mediation returned to prominence in courts, China's party-state has begun to develop and push for the idea of 'grand mediation' as a mechanism for redressing administrative and social disputes. This project will analyze mediation in circumstances likely to occur in daily life, such as personal injury or family problems. In other contexts, the question has arisen whether mediation leads to outcomes consistent with legal rules. Therefore, it will contribute to understanding of the development and implementation of the rule of law. How does the rule of law develop? What relationship does its development have to changes in processes on the ground in China?The project will rely on observation to study how mediation is carried out in several base-level courts in different parts of China. Researchers will observe how judges interact with litigants and persuade them to settle, and will also interview judges. The project will also analyze why some litigants agree to negotiate to a settlement and others insist on adjudication. The study promises to get an in-depth, firsthand look at this practice central to Chinese civil justice. How should one evaluate the rise of mediation in China? Is it a form of constructive and less adversarial justice? Or is it a threat to the integrity of adjudication and thereby the development of the rule of law in China? They will shed light on how Chinese-style mediation is similar to or different from the communal or court-based mediation commonly found in the Anglo-American system. The widespread acknowledgment of the importance of the rule of law in China makes this project especially important.The project has substantial broader impacts because the question of how the rule of law develops is important to policymakers and the development of transnational business. In addition, the project will contribute to training students in an area of profound importance.

本课题是对中国法律的制度中司法调解的运用进行实证研究。近十年来，司法调解在中国越来越普遍。司法调解不仅成为解决法律的纠纷的模式，而且成为解决更广泛的法外纠纷的模式。大约在司法调解在法庭上重新占据重要地位的同时，中国的党国开始发展和推动“大调解”的理念，将其作为解决行政和社会纠纷的机制。这个项目将分析在日常生活中可能发生的情况下的调解，例如人身伤害或家庭问题。 在其他情况下，出现的问题是，调解的结果是否符合法律的规则。 因此，它将有助于理解法治的发展和实施。 法治如何发展？ 它的发展与中国实地进程的变化有什么关系？该项目将依靠观察来研究中国不同地区的几个基层法院是如何进行调解的。研究人员将观察法官如何与诉讼当事人互动并说服他们和解，还将采访法官。该项目还将分析为什么一些诉讼当事人同意谈判和解，而其他人坚持裁决。这项研究有望深入了解这一对中国民事司法至关重要的做法。如何评价调解在中国的兴起？这是一种建设性的、对抗性更小的正义形式吗？抑或是对司法公正以至中国法治发展的威胁？他们将阐明中国式调解与英美体系中常见的社区或法院调解的相似或不同之处。法治在中国的重要性得到了广泛的认可，这使得该项目尤为重要。该项目具有广泛的影响，因为法治如何发展的问题对政策制定者和跨国企业的发展至关重要。 此外，该项目将有助于在一个极为重要的领域培训学生。