Dissertation Research: The Role of Public Interest Law in China's

论文研究：公共利益法在中国经济中的作用

• 批准号: 0902712
• 负责人: Paul Sangren
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 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: 2009-03-15 至 2010-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0902712&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Role; Public; Interest

This research project, in close collaboration with Chinese partners, considers the ways in which evolving public interest practices in China are meeting the legal needs of the 900 million farmers in the countryside. Specifically, the project examines how rural legal aid centers address certain externalities of China's economic development and its concomitants of urbanization and migration, namely, the legal consequences of changing policies toward real property and its regulation. Transitional China shows the emergence of new privatized actors operating within socialist administrative systems. These relationships are both produced by and productive of valuations of land, its use, ownership, and transfer, which differ markedly from those of just a generation ago. Emergent markets in rural land complicate views of land value held by local social groups defined by region, religion, and ethnicity. Land laws, as the product of compromise and calculation, may create a set of conditions preferable to the realization of certain types of value of land over others. The leading question of this research, therefore, is: what role do legal aid centers play in mediating the different modalities of land ownership held by diverse actors in transitional societies? To address this question, the project compares the operation of different legal aid centers in rural China to examine the capacity of such institutions to address differences in views toward the use, value, and meaning of land. The methodology employed is on-site participation in client counseling and observation of claimants' visits to legal aid centers and their interaction with legal aid personnel. Further, semi-structured interviews will be conducted with members of the local community as to the wider impact of the legal aid center. The project uses the case of China to build theory about the role of public interest law in transitional economies.

该研究项目与中国合作伙伴密切合作，考虑了中国不断发展的公共利益实践的方式，正在满足乡村9亿农民的法律需求。 具体而言，该项目研究了农村法律援助中心如何处理中国经济发展的某些外部性及其城市化和移民的伴随，即改变对不动产及其法规的政策的法律后果。 过渡性中国显示了在社会主义行政体系中运作的新私有参与者的出现。 这些关系都是由土地，其使用，所有权和转移的估值产生的，并且与一代前的关系明显不同。 农村土地上的新兴市场使地区，宗教和种族定义的当地社会群体所拥有的土地价值的看法复杂化。 土地法律作为妥协和计算的产物，可能会产生一组比实现某些土地相比某些类型的土地优于其他条件的条件。 因此，这项研究的主要问题是：法律援助中心在调解各种行为者在过渡社会中拥有的土地所有权的不同方式中扮演什么角色？ 为了解决这个问题，该项目比较了中国农村地区不同法律援助中心的运营，以研究此类机构的能力，以解决土地使用，价值和意义的观点差异。 所采用的方法是现场参与客户咨询和观察索赔人对法律援助中心的访问及其与法律援助人员的互动。 此外，将对当地社区成员进行半结构化访谈，以了解法律援助中心的更广泛影响。 该项目利用中国的案例来建立有关公共利益法在过渡经济中的作用的理论。