ASSESSING TREATY PERFORMANCE IN CHINA. Trade and Human Rights.

POTTER, Pitman B.

ISBN 10: 077482560X / ISBN 13: 9780774825603

Published by UBC Press, Vancouver. 2014., 2014

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8vo. 295pp. A very good paperback copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ASSESSING TREATY PERFORMANCE IN CHINA. Trade and Human Rights.
• Publisher: UBC Press, Vancouver. 2014.
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 077482560X
• ISBN 13: 9780774825603
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • China; Asian History; Chinese History

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Synopsis

This volume outlines a new approach for understanding China's treaty performance around international standards on trade and human rights, using the paradigms of selective adaptation and institutional capacity. Selective adaptation reveals how local interpretation and implementation of international treaty standards are affected by normative perspectives derived from perception, complementarity, and legitimacy. Institutional capacity explains how operational dimensions of legal performance are affected by structural and relational dynamics of institutional purpose, location, orientation, and cohesion. The author also offers policy suggestions for more effective engagement with China on trade and human rights issues.

About the Author

Pitman B. Potter is professor of law emeritus at the University of British Columbia and a former director of Chinese legal studies. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Canada, and he has practiced law in British Columbia, Washington state, and California throughout his academic career. He is the author of Exporting Virtue? China’s International Human Rights Activism in the Age of Xi Jinping and Assessing Treaty Performance in China: Trade and Human Rights and China’s Legal System, among others.