What the Bao Fan disappearance tells us about China’s legal system

It’s being reported that Bao Fan (包凡), the chairman and CEO of China Renaissance, has disappeared. (Here’s the announcement from…

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Texas bill to ban purchase of real estate by Chinese: some unintended consequences?

Texas state senator Lois Kolkhorst (R) has proposed to the state senate a bill that would ban “the purchase of…

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Hu Fuming passes away from Covid

Hu Fuming (胡福明), author of the famous May 1978 article “Practice is the sole criterion of truth” (实践是检验真理的唯一标准), passed away…

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Is China a dual state?

Is China a dual state in the sense of Ernst Fraenkel’s conception? I’ve been thinking about this a lot and…

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European Court of Human Rights effectively bars all extraditions to China

On Oct. 6, 2022, the European Court of Human Rights issued a decision, Liu v. Poland, that effectively bars states…

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The Tangshan gang verdict: some comments

Today’s news carries reports that a court in Langfang, Hebei Province, has sentenced 28 gang members to a range of…

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Big mistakes in the editing of Cai Xia’s article in “Foreign Affairs”

Foreign Affairs has let down Cai Xia in both its editing and its translation of her piece on Xi Jinping…

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Annual Conference of the Younger Comparativists Committee, American Society of Comparative Law

Here’s the announcement: AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COMPARATIVE LAW YOUNGER COMPARATIVISTS COMMITTEE CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT The Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) of the…

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Court Holds that China’s Data Privacy Law Does Not Bar U.S. Discovery

Here’s a post on this point by William Dodge at the Transnational Litigation Blog: https://tlblog.org/court-holds-that-chinas-data-privacy-law-does-not-bar-u-s-discovery/

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Judging China: The Chinese Legal System in U.S. Courts

I’ve just posted the above-titled paper to SSRN. Here’s the abstract: How should American courts understand China’s legal system? How…

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