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The People’s Court: Video Segment 5

Daljit Dhaliwal interviews Alice Young, a partner at Kaye Scholer LLP.

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The People’s Court: Video Segment 4

Lawyers rely on local officials to renew their licenses from year to year. It's one of the reasons taking on cases against officials and state-linked companies can be a risky business. Ran Tong accepts the cases other lawyers won't touch. (4 minutes)

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The People’s Court: Video Segment 3

Judge Li and her colleagues regularly travel to the outlying hill villages around Gongxian with a mobile court. It's part of the government's effort to bring the emerging legal system to the farthest corners of the country.

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The People’s Court: Video Segment 2

Being involved in a lawsuit used to be considered a disgrace, but now central Chengdu's district court's busy docket is filled with employee disputes, road accidents, divorce petitions, and migrant labor cases.

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The People’s Court: Video Segment 1

In a practice court for law students at Sichuan University in the city of Chengdu, 1000 miles southwest of China's capital, Beijing, they're re-examining a real-life industrial injury case between a laborer and his employers.

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The People’s Court: Legitimacy through Law in China?

by Benjamin Liebman. Over the past decade, China's Communist Party leadership has embraced law to an unprecedented degree. China's leaders view creating a fair and effective legal system as crucial to their own legitimacy.

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The People’s Court: Vocabulary and Resources

glossary, suggested reading and Web sites

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The People’s Court: Themes and Video Segments

This is a list of important themes and video segments that can be used in classroom discussions of The People's Court.

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The People’s Court: Discussion Guide Introduction

The People's Court takes viewers inside the courtrooms and law schools of China to provide an unprecedented portrait of its rapidly growing legal system.

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