Chinese administrative law symposium volume

I just received the announcement below from Neysun Mahboubi. I haven’t read the articles yet, but judging solely from the contributors…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Law

US Supreme Court agrees to hear Vitamin C case

The Supreme Court decided today to hear a very important case revolving around the issue of how much deference US…

Continue Reading →

A criminal lawyer’s take on the Patrick Ho case

Rob Precht contributed the following comment on the Patrick Ho case to the Chinalaw listserv; with his kind permission, I’m…

Continue Reading →

“Market economy status” in China’s WTO Protocol of Accession: No, the rule in Article 15(a) didn’t disappear after 2016

There’s currently a debate over whether China’s WTO trading partners should grant it “market economy status” (MES). The significance of…

Continue Reading →

“Truth” online and policing online consumer reviews in China

The following is a guest post by Allen Clayton-Greene of the US-Asia Law Institute at NYU Law School. * *…

Continue Reading →

New book: The People’s Republic of the Disappeared

Here’s a summary and review in the New York Times of an important new book, The People’s Republic of the…

Continue Reading →

He Weifang is pissed!

Over the past few days there has been quite a bit of controversy in China over the government’s decision to…

Continue Reading →

Legislative activity around the National Anthem Law

A question recently came up on the Chinalaw listserv regarding some Chinese news reports about (a) PRC legislation providing criminal…

Continue Reading →

China’s new Civil Code and the Good Samaritan law

I was reminded by a recent article on Xinhuanet that China’s new General Rules of Civil Law (which I discussed…

Continue Reading →

Chinese court enforces US judgment

This is big news. Chinese civil procedure allows Chinese courts to enforce foreign judgments (provided they don’t offend public policy)…

Continue Reading →