Assessing Treaty Performance in China: Trade and Human Rights

by Pitman B. Potter

Overview

This volume outlines a new approach for understanding China's treaty performance around international standards on trade and human rights, using the paradigms of selective adaptation and institutional capacity. Selective adaptation reveals how local interpretation and implementation of international treaty standards are affected by normative perspectives derived from perception, complementarity, and legitimacy. Institutional capacity explains how operational dimensions of legal performance are affected by structural and relational dynamics of institutional purpose, location, orientation, and cohesion. The author also offers policy suggestions for more effective engagement with China on trade and human rights issues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780774825603
Publisher:	University of British Columbia Press
Publication date:	08/01/2014
Series:	Asia Pacific Legal Culture and Globalization
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Pitman B. Potter is professor of law emeritus at the Peter A. Allard School of Law of the University of British Columbia. He has published many books and essays, including Assessing Treaty Performance in China: Trade and Human Rights and China’s Legal System.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1 Encounters with International Trade Standards: China and the WTO

2 Performance of International Trade Standards I: Contract Law in China

3 Performance of International Trade Standards II: Property Law in China

4 Encounters with International Human Rights Standards

5 Treaty Performance on Human Rights: Sustainability and Social Justice

Conclusion

Appendices

Notes

Index