This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the successes and failures in China’s current legal system construction. It systematically and comprehensively examines the development of China’s rule of law policy since the reform and opening up, as well as future trends. The main areas covered include: The course, achievements and motivation behind China’s construction of law-based administration; Development, status quo and general characteristics of administrative legislation; Reform of the administrative examination and approval system and the administrative licensing system; The relationship between social security system reform, beneficial administration and service government; The development of administrative law in China; Origin of the concept of due process, experiences with and development trends concerning China’s administrative legislative procedure; The importance of government information, open practices, problems and development trend; History, current situation, reform mechanism of the emergency management system and the improvement of the legal system for emergency requisitions; The course, practical problems in and reasons for the enhanced approach of administrative reconsideration system; The course, achievements in, current situation and enhanced approach of administrative litigation system; The course of the national compensation system; and the construction of responsible government and administrative accountability system.

The Code of federal regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal register by the executive departments and agencies of the federal government.

Private Property, Government Requisition and the Constitution, 1914-1927 ranges widely over different types of property, including aerodromes, ships, hotels, pubs, alcoholic drinks and foodstuffs, the history of whose requisition by the wartime state is carefully documented. It shows how the state, in this as in many areas, was forced to act by immediate pressures, often improvising rights over areas of life previously outside the power of government; by doing so it documents a key stage in the growth of centralised power in modern Britain.

Committee Serial No. 12. Considers. S. 927, to remove limitations on war risk insurance coverage. S. 928, to provide that owners of vessels requisitioned by the U.S. shall be accorded preference toward reacquiring these vessels when they can be released by the Government. S. 1032, to exclude cargo which is lumber from tariff filing requirements. S. 969, to provide medical care for Coast and Geodetic Survey retired ships' officers and crew members and their dependents. S. 583, to amend provisions concerning the relationship of the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the Army and the Navy so that they will apply also to the Air Force. S. 82 and H.R. 79, to require authorization for Coast Guard appropriations.