This book is the first comparative study of legal reform in the five current socialist countries (China, Vietnam, Laos, North Korea, and Cuba) from the late 1970s to the present. It explains projects, strategies, contents, driving forces, and limitations of legislative, administrative, judicial, and legal profession reform in these countries.

Ngoc Son Bui is Professor of Asian Laws at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford. He has previously held an academic position at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, a research position at the National University of Singapore, and visiting positions at Chulalongkorn, Harvard, Melbourne, Singapore Management University, University of Hong Kong, and Tsinghua law schools. He works on comparative & constitutional law in Asia. He is the author of Constitutional Change in the Contemporary Socialist World (OUP 2020) and a series co-editor of the Oxford Studies in Asian Laws.