Trend and Retrospection of Legalization: Analysis on the Data of Legislation and Litigations in China

Abstract

As China’s society is developing towards modernization, the role of law is increasingly prominent. Due to the legalization progress, there will be a trend of more laws and litigations. Over the past 30 years, the problems of reform and opening up in Chinese laws have become apparent. While the quantity of legislation is rapidly growing, the issues appear as follows, i.e., how to ensure the quality of legislation and enforce the formulated laws effectively, how to tackle the contradiction between the limited resources and the ability to settle disputes, and the relationship between litigations and other means for settlement of disputes when the courts facing more litigations.

Keywords

legalization / quality of legislation / judicial resources / alternative dispute settlements

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