Amazing resource for Chinese judicial statistics now available at the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress now has a huge collection of Chinese judicial statistics (人民法院司法统计历史典籍) covering 1949 to 2016. The bibliographic…

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More secret Xinjiang documents revealed

Hot on the heels of last week’s blockbuster exposé of secret Xinjiang documents in the New York Times, the International…

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Hong Kong mask regulation case: the Legislative Affairs Commission strikes back

The Legislative Affairs Commission (LAC) of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) has issued a statement (Xinhua report in…

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Hong Kong High Court decision invalidating mask ban

On November 18, 2019, the High Court of Hong Kong (Court of First Instance) rendered a judgment on a challenge…

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Fellowship in empirical Chinese legal studies: UC Berkeley Faculty of Law

Here’s the announcement at the China IPR blog.

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The “rule of law” and the concept of an “essentially contested concept”

Recently in the course of some writing I’ve had to address the problem of “essentially contested concepts.” But because the…

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He Haibo’s defense of attorney Li Jinxing

Rights lawyer Li Jinxing (李金星) has been disbarred — for the usual absurd reasons. Here’s the statement made in his…

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National People’s Congress delegate/tycoon has foreign citizenship

It seems that Sun Xiang, a delegate to the Hebei Provincial People’s Congress and all-around rich guy (worth around $1.1…

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Courts and the “absolute leadership” of the Party

Over at the Supreme People’s Court Monitor blog, Susan Finder has an excellent post on a recent speech by Liu…

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Important new article on the Xinjiang detentions

Adrian Zenz, perhaps the one person more responsible than any other for bringing the Xinjiang detentions to the attention of…

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