Lay participation in China’s judicial work has malfunctioned for decades,with lay assessors playing only nominal roles in trials.Aiming to solve this problem and improve judicial democracy,China issued the Law of the...Lay participation in China’s judicial work has malfunctioned for decades,with lay assessors playing only nominal roles in trials.Aiming to solve this problem and improve judicial democracy,China issued the Law of the People’s Republic of China on People’s Assessors on April 27,2018.The new law has made significant changes to China’s lay assessor system,but there are problems hindering the targeted improvement of judicial democracy.This article analyzes these problems based on a public survey and interviews of both judges and lay assessors,in combination with other significant findings of prior studies,and provides suggestions on the further improvement of judicial democracy in China.展开更多
基金the Beijing Social Science Key Project,entitled The Theoretical Innovations and Practical Difficulties of the Law on People’s Assessors(19FXA004)。
文摘Lay participation in China’s judicial work has malfunctioned for decades,with lay assessors playing only nominal roles in trials.Aiming to solve this problem and improve judicial democracy,China issued the Law of the People’s Republic of China on People’s Assessors on April 27,2018.The new law has made significant changes to China’s lay assessor system,but there are problems hindering the targeted improvement of judicial democracy.This article analyzes these problems based on a public survey and interviews of both judges and lay assessors,in combination with other significant findings of prior studies,and provides suggestions on the further improvement of judicial democracy in China.
