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Law and Development
Course Description
This course taught by Professor George Zheng (郑戈) has been offered since 2004, first at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, and then at Shanghai Jiao Tong University KoGuan Law School. It differentiates itself from the name-sake courses typically offered at law schools in North America, which largely propagandize a set of institutional reform proposals under the umbrella term “Washington Consensus”, with privatization at the core. Although the general argument that better institutional designs render better economic performance sounds hard to refute, the causal relationship between law and growth can hardly be proved. The argument runs like this: the rich countries usually have sound laws, while the poor countries have weak laws, therefore the laws rich countries have must be the reason for them being rich. Such a theory is ahistorical and shallow and failed as a basis for rendering successful reforms. Shock therapy gave Russia a shock without therapy. Few developing countries become developed by adopting the Washington Consensus. This course surveys mainstream “law and development” literature with a critical eye. It also tries to guide the students to theorize China’s experience of institutional reform and economic development..
Objectives
▪A student who has successfully completed this subject should:
▪Be familiar with the range of theoretical approaches to understanding and evaluating various law and development initiatives;
▪Have the capacity to comprehend and explain basic quantitative indicators and qualitative conceptions of development;
▪Have a thorough knowledge of the major processes and actors involved in the institutionalization of development in the People’s Republic of China;
▪Have a general understanding of the role of International Organizations, esp. the UN, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, in rule of law and development projects in China and other developing countries;
▪Be able to apply the conceptual, historical and theoretical framework of this subject to situate and critically assess what he or she has learnt in other Chinese law and western law subjects;
▪Have a cultivated sensitivity to social, historical and political-economic issues that arise in the implementation of the rule of law.
Topics
The course shall cover the following topics:
1.Law and Development: Introduction
Readings:
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson, “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation,” American Economic Review, Vol. 91, No. 5 (Dec., 2001), pp. 1369-1401.
Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, & Andrei Shleifer, “The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins,” Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 46, no. 2, June 2008, pp. 285–332.
2.Industrial Development and Law: Examples from Rare Earth and Chips
Ge Zheng, “Reconsidering Economic Development and Free Trade Taking China’s Rare Earth Industry as an Example,” International Journal of Law, Ethics, Technology, Winter 2021, pp.1-20.
3.Balancing Industrial and Ecological Civilizations: Example from New Energy Vehicles
Y Liu & C Feng, “Promoting Renewable Energy through National Energy Legislation,” Energy Economics, 2023, vol. 118, issue C.
4.Population Control, Family Planning, and Development
Wang Feng, Yong Cai, & Baochang Gu, “Population, Policy, and Politics: How Will History Judge China's One-Child Policy,” Population and Development Review 38 (Supplement): 115–129 (2012).
Tadeusz Kugler, Power to the Population: The Political Consequences and Causes of Demographic Changes, The University of Georgia Press, 2023, Chapter 8.
5.Household Registration, Identity Law, and Economic Development
Kam Wing Chan, Urbanization with Chinese Characteristics: The Hukou System and Migration, Taylor & Francis, 2018.
6.Corruption and its impact on development
Yuen Yuen Ang, China's Gilded Age The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
7.The Changing Color of the State: Property Rights and Redistribution
Taisu Zhang, The Laws and Economics of Confucianism Kinship and Property in Preindustrial China and England, Cambridge University Press, 2017, Introduction.
Chun Peng, Rural Land Takings Law in Modern China Origin and Evolution, Cambridge University Press, 2018, Introduction and Chapter 7.
Shitong Qiao, Chinese Small Property The Co-Evolution of Law and Social Norms, Cambridge University Press, 2017, Chapter 1 and Conclusion.
8.Chinese Approach to Digital Market Regulation
Angela Huyue Zhang, High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy, Oxford University Press, 2024.
9.Internet governance and the information society
Rogier Creemers, Straton Papagianneas, & Adam Knight (eds.), The Emergence of China’s Smart State, Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.
10.AI Justice: China’s Grand Design for Smart Courts
G. Zheng, “China’s Grand Design of People’s Smart Courts,” Asian Journal of Law and Society, Vol.7, Issue 3, 2020, pp.561-582.
11.Culture, Development, and Ethnic Minority Issues in China
G. Zheng, “Economic Development and Cultural Autonomy in Tension: The Tibet Issue in China’s Constitutional Framework,” Hong Kong Law Journal, 42(1), 2012, pp.195-252.
An adapted version with a focus on modernity and secularity is available in French:
G. Zheng, “La sécularisation du sacré: Peut-on contrebalancer la tendance dans le Tibet chinous?” Sylvie Taussig (dir.), Charles Taylor: Religion et sécularisation, Paris: CNRS Édition, 253-280.
General Readings
1.Albert O. Hirschman, The Strategy of Economic Development, Yale University Press, 1958.
2.W. W. Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto, Cambridge University Press, 1964.
3.Albert O. Hirschman, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States, Harvard University Press, 1970.
4.Mancur Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities, Yale University Press, 1982.
5.Dani Rodrik, One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth-Princeton University Press, 2007.
6.Justin Yifu Lin, The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off, Princeton University Press, 2012.
7.Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty, Profile Books, 2012.
8.Yukon Huang, Cracking the China Conundrum: Why Conventional Economic Wisdom Is Wrong, Oxford University Press, 2017.
9.Keyu Jin, The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism, Viking, 2023.
Assessment
▪Class Presentation counts for 30% of the grade for this course. The presentation should focus on readings for a specific topic.
▪A final research paper (5,000-7,000 words, footnotes included) counts for 70% of the grade. It should also be related to a specific topic covered in this course.
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