Relational Embeddedness and Socially Motivated Case Screening in the Practice of Law in Rural China.
Based on an ethnographic study conducted in rural China, this article demonstrates that relational embeddedness-that is, concrete and durable relationships among law practitioners, clients, adversaries, and the surrounding communities-holds the key to our understandings of the legal profession's cas...
| Publicado en: | Law & Society Review Vol. 50; no. 4; pp. 920 - 953 |
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Cambridge University Press
Dec2016
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