Charting China’s Legal Reforms: Outcomes Since the 2014 ‘Rule of Law’ Plenum

Amidst the aftermath of a profoundly disruptive pandemic and a transformed geopolitical landscape, what progress has been made regarding the legal developments announced at China’s "Rule of Law Plenum" in 2014? Join Stanford’s China Program for a presentation by Neysun Mahboubi, informed by extensive fieldwork, on judicial and administrative law developments in the decade since the Fourth Plenum of the 18th Party Congress and its promise to “comprehensively advance the rule of law.”

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Neysun Mahboubi is the Director of the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches various courses related to Chinese history, law, and policy. Previously he was a Research Scholar of Penn’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China ("CSCC"), and he continues to host the CSCC Podcast. His current writing focuses on the development of modern Chinese administrative law.