Abstract

Abstract This book explores four decades of legal reform in the five current socialist countries (namely China, Vietnam, Laos, North Korea, and Cuba) from a comparative perspective. This book explains various projects, methods, strategies, contents, driving forces, and limitations of legislative reform, administrative reform, judicial reform, and reform of the legal profession in these socialist countries. Legal reform in the socialist countries is political elites’ project to improve the legal system while retaining its core socialist principles. Legal reform is carried out through legislative enactments, amendments, and replacements. Political elites adopt incremental strategies to reform the legal system sporadically or systematically. The implementation of legal reform measures significantly improves the socialist legal system. Socialist legal reform is animated by the political aspiration to create the rule of law, the impact of social-economic change, and the influence of transnational and comparative law. Despite significant reforms, socialist principles of the legal systems in these countries largely remain intact. Legal reforms in the socialist countries, however, present considerable variations. This book identifies and explains five different projects of socialist legal reform.

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