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		<title>The People&#8217;s Court: Video Segment 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.

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		<title>The People&#8217;s Court: Video Segment 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<title>The People&#8217;s Court: Video Segment 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<title>The People&#8217;s Court: Video Segment 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<title>The People&#8217;s Court: Legitimacy through Law in China?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Benjamin L. Liebman
Download the PDF here.

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. In a society in which few true believers in communism remain, and in which the sole ideology often appears [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The People&#8217;s Court: Vocabulary and Resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download the PDF here.


photo credit: Maggie Still
Vocabulary
disenfranchised: deprived of legal rights or privileges

habeas corpus: (Latin meaning: you should have the body) a legal order (writ) to bring a party before a court or judge; frequently used to determine if a person's imprisonment is legal

jury trial: a legal proceeding in which a group of people (jurors) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The People&#8217;s Court: Themes and Video Segments</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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Themes
Global Issues: China's move to market capitalism is forcing deep changes in society. Its government is attempting to institute a legal system quickly enough to keep up with its economic expansion. But questions remain: Can a communist country defend the right to private property? How will one-party rule in China cope with the need for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The People&#8217;s Court: Discussion Guide Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. The documentary follows itinerant judges, law students, a human rights lawyer, and ordinary Chinese citizens seeking justice as the country tackles the massive task of establishing a legal framework for its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Algeria</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>diana cofresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[





CIA World Factbook 2006



Marriage Age:  21 for males and 18 for females; a "qadi" (judge of religious law) can waive the age requirement.

Polygamy: A man may take up to four wives.  A wife maintains the right to notification that her husband is taking another wife, and may sue for divorce if her consent [...]]]></description>
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