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Continuous Growth in Reform and Opening-up: Three Decades of Development of Constitutional Law Studies in China

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Constitutional Development in China, 1982-2012

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Since the promulgation and enforcement of the current constitution in 1982, focusing on the publicity and education of current constitution, the subject status of constitutional law studies as an independent subject of law science has been fully recognized.

This part was first published in the New Development of Legal Studies (China Social Sciences Press, October 2008, 1st edition) compiled by Mo Jihong et al., and the contents contained herein are both added and deleted.

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Mo, J., Zhai, G. (2020). Continuous Growth in Reform and Opening-up: Three Decades of Development of Constitutional Law Studies in China. In: Li, L., Mo, J., Zhai, G. (eds) Constitutional Development in China, 1982-2012. Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9261-1_3

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