Judicial Transparency and Censorship: Deleted Rulings in China Judgements Online

• In Event: Law, Protest, and Responsiveness in China

Brief Overview

This paper compares two sets of administrative rulings scraped from China’s judicial archive —one from 2019 (before the systematic deletions of cases) and one from 2023 (after)—to infer the logic behind authoritarian transparency and censorship.

Authors

• Jongyoon Baik, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Handi Li, University College London