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Does Chairman Mao rule Chinese justice from grave?

Editor | April 29, 2014 |

Jan. 4 (USAsiaLawNYU/by Jerome A. Cohen): China’s administration of criminal justice is surely one prominent area where the Chairman Mao’s thinking has left an indelible impact, despite the large body of laws, regulations and interpretations promulgated since 1979. 

Foreign observers, not to mention China’s able criminal defense lawyers and legal scholars, daily encounter cases where “politics takes command” over law, not only among police and prosecutors but also among judges and justice officials. Indeed, this politicization of criminal justice follows the public instructions of China’s highest leaders.

So long as Mao’s pernicious doctrine persists, no Chinese citizen can be safe.