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Realizing Justice: The Legal System in 40 Lectures
How far are we from the law?
Completed · 63 episodes
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Liu Qing: From Passive Object of Law to Active Legal Subject Zhan Qingyun: The History and Ideals, Reality and Future of Law Leung Man-tao: A Radical New Understanding of Law 1. Before the Law: Welcome to the Imperfect World of Rule of Law 2. How Do We Understand a Legal System? Finding Certainty among Possibilities 3. How Does Law Understand Justice? The Age of Criminal Responsibility and Preservation of Evidence National Day Extra 1 | Are Artistic Young People Unsuitable for Law School? National Day Extra 2 | Should Egg Freezing Be Legal for Single Women? National Day Extra 3 | Is Checking a Spouse's Phone an Invasion of Privacy—and Could It Cost ¥2,000? National Day Extra 4 | Can You Say “No” to Facial Recognition? National Day Extra 5 | Listener Q&A: What Is Life Really Like for Young Lawyers, and Why Create Law Master's Programs for Non-Law Majors? National Day Extra 6 | Do Remixed Short Videos Infringe Copyright? National Day Extra 7 | Why Does “Taking Up the Weapon of Law” Feel So Difficult and Powerless? 4. Where Is Law? Natural Justice, State Law, and Human Feeling 5. Separating Knowledge and Power: Who Made the Civil Code? 6. Bargaining and Compromise: Four Ways Ordinary People Can Participate in Legislation 7. Is Equal Protection of Private Property Unconstitutional? The Great Debate over the Draft Property Law Extra | The Legal Questions behind a Student Suing Their School 8. Did Couriers Steal the Postal Service's Business? Conflicts of Interest in Legislation 9. Is the Labor Contract Law a Bad Law? Why Did Economists Oppose It? Extra | Does the Major Revision of the Law on Protecting Women's Rights Better Protect Women? 10. What Does Failed Legislation Teach Us? The U.S. Prohibition Era 11. How Can a Bad Law Be Overturned? From Filing Review to Constitutional Review 12. May Police Check Your ID at Will? Caging Power within Institutions 13. How Can the Self-Expansion of Administrative Enforcement Be Restrained? The Sun Zhigang Case 14. Is a ¥66,000 Fine Reasonable for Selling ¥20 of “Poisonous Celery”? Discretion in Administrative Penalties Extra | Who Decides My Name—My Parents, the Police, or Me? 15. Why Did Subdistrict Offices and Residents' Committees Lack Authority to Lock Down Communities? Legal Limits on Administrative Compulsion 16. What Was the Legal Basis for Makeshift Hospitals and Centralized Quarantine? More on Limits to Administrative Compulsion 17. When May Police Inspect a Citizen's Phone? Legal Limits on Administrative Inspection Listener Q&A | How Quickly Rule of Law Arrives Depends on Every Citizen's Contribution 18. Why Are Courts Divided into Ranks? China's “Three Types and Four Levels” Court System Extra | Leung Man-tao × Zhai Zhiyong: How Can Ordinary People Develop Legal Reasoning? Part I Extra | Leung Man-tao × Zhai Zhiyong: How Can Ordinary People Develop Legal Reasoning? Part II 19. Fair Outcomes or Efficiency and Cost? The Two-Instance Final-Judgment System Year in Review | Injustice to One Person Is a Threat to Everyone 20. Are Fiery Courtroom Debates Only Found in Legal Dramas? Trial Procedures and Rules 21. How Do Judges Decide Hard Cases? A Surrogacy Dispute over Custody 22. Is There a Judgment Infinitely Close to Correct? Same-Sex Marriage and Frozen-Embryo Inheritance Cases 23. Why Can No Law Violate the Constitution? The Constitution as Both Public Law and Supreme Law 24. What Should Constrain Administrative Power? Administrative Law between Authorization and Limitation 25. Illegality Is Not Necessarily Crime: Criminal Law as the Magna Carta of Both the Good and the Accused 26. Innocent until Proven Guilty—or Guilty until Proven Innocent? The Zhang Yuhuan and Lao Rongzhi Cases 27. Qiu Ju Didn't Win—Is Suing the Government Really So Hard? Administrative Litigation as a Measure of Rule of Law 28. Is Everything Not Forbidden by Law Permitted? Basic Principles of Civil and Commercial Law 29. Why Distinguish Civil-Law Capacity from Capacity for Civil Conduct? Who Owns a Child's New Year's Gift Money? 30. How Does Civil Law Regulate Property Relations between Equal Parties? Mortgage Payments on Unfinished Homes 31. How Does Law Regulate Personal Relations between Equal Parties? Fidelity Agreements and Leaving a Marriage with Nothing 32. Does a Divorce Cooling-Off Period Violate Marital Autonomy? Limits of Civil Law in Personal Relations 33. When Parents Pay for an Adult Child's Home, Is It a Gift or a Loan? Family Relationships in Civil Law 34. If a Stray Cat Injures Someone, Is the Person Who Feeds It Liable? Four Principles for Allocating Tort Liability Extra | What Is the Crime of “Picking Quarrels and Provoking Trouble,” and Should It Be Abolished? 35. How Can Private Law Protect Rights amid Emerging Technologies? Virtual Property and Data Ownership 36. Why Are Over-Age Workers Excluded from Workplace-Injury Insurance? The Sudden Death of a Courier Sorter 37. Can Personal Safety Protection Orders End Domestic Violence? How Social Law Protects Women and Other Vulnerable Groups 38. May Parents Post Their Children Online at Will? Online Protection and Loopholes in the Minors Protection Law 39. Can Law Force Adult Children to “Visit Home Often”? Elder-Rights Law and Family-Visit Leave 40. Conclusion: There Is No Free Justice in This World Finale Extra 1 | Who Receives the Bride Price, and When Can It Be Reclaimed? Finale Extra 2 | How Are Marital and Separate Property Assigned, and Can Couples Agree Otherwise? Finale Extra 3 | Must One Spouse Repay the Other's Debts? Finale Extra 4 | Who Owns a Home Purchased Jointly by Both Spouses and Their Parents? Finale Extra 5 | How Is Property Divided at Divorce, and What If One Party Conceals Assets?