Impeachment of South Korean president: legal criteria

I’m going to go a bit off track in this post, which is not about Chinese law at all. Instead,…

Continue Reading →

Chinese authorities ignoring Chinese law again

This is kind of dog-bites-man news, but here we go again. A German executive resident in China has been deported…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Law

Rural land reform in the Third Plenum Decision

I haven’t come across any reports of what I think is a pretty momentous section of the Decision of the…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Law

Zhang Wanhong, 1976-2024

Today I received the sad news that Professor Zhang Wanhong of Wuhan University, a man greatly respected and admired in…

Continue Reading →

Follow-up on the fate of China Judgments Online

(Also on Substack.) The latest Supreme People’s Court Work Report provides some information about China Judgments Online and the new…

Continue Reading →

Chinese law aspects of the TikTok affair

(This post is also on Substack.) I hear people saying that China would block ByteDance’s divestment of TikTok or forbid…

Continue Reading →

The Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations: Call for fellowship applications

The Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations has issued a call for fellowship applications. Eligibility: Early to mid…

Continue Reading →

The end of China Judgments Online?

I’ve just written a Substack post on a recent Supreme People’s Court document that is causing a stir in China.…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Law

Great opportunity: Twp-year post-JD research fellowship in Chinese law at Columbia Law School

Details here: https://chinese-legal-studies.law.columbia.edu/content/postdoctoral-research-scholar

Continue Reading →

What Does the Report About Spavor’s Settlement Demand Tell Us?

“Aha – I knew it! Told ya so.” That, in so many words, is the reaction from some people I’m…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Law