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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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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Millward & Daum on Xinjiang and social credit

Here’s an informative Twitter exchange between James Millward and Jeremy Daum on Xinjiang and the social credit system: Millward Daum

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The use of cases by Chinese courts

Many thanks to Susan Finder of the Supreme People’s Court Monitor blog for posting a fascinating piece by her student,…

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The speech isn’t free but the book is: William Farris, “State Prosecutions of Speech in the People’s Republic of China”

William Farris has just published (and made available free online) his labor of love: a magnificent casebook covering criminal prosecutions…

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Charles Lieber’s Conviction as a ‘Victory’ for the China Initiative

Dr. Charles Lieber, the former Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, was convicted yesterday of six criminal…

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The Uyghur Tribunal judgment: some comments

On Dec. 9, the Uyghur Tribunal issued its summary judgment on the Chinese government’s responsibility for what is happening in…

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Residential surveillance at a designated location: five major problems

Here’s the original text and a translation (by myself and my RA Changyun Pan) of a recent insightful article by…

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The New Zealand Supreme Court’s troubling decision on extradition to China

On June 4th, the New Zealand Supreme Court came out with a decision on extradition to China that I find…

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