Military Law in Communist China: Development, Structure and Function

Abstract

This thesis examines the military legal system of Communist China. This system has, since its inception in 1927, fulfilled a number of broad, nontraditional functions. Besides the general function of maintaining order and discipline common to all military legal systems, Communist China's system operates to maintain the political dominance of the Chinese Communist Party over the military, as well as to achieve the Party's wider poh0cy objectives. This thesis concludes that recent developments in the military legal system have, within limitations imposed by the Chinese Communist Party, greatly increased the basic procedural fairness of the military disciplinary process.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA451220

Entities

People

  • David C. Rodearmel

Organizations

  • The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Congress
  • Court Martial
  • Governments
  • International Law
  • Judiciary
  • Law
  • Military Forces (Foreign)
  • Military Law
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Tribunals
  • National Governments
  • Political Systems
  • Recreation
  • Societies
  • Supreme Court
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Asian Economic Studies
  • Criminal Law
  • Systems Analysis and Design