Recently in the course of some writing I’ve had to address the problem of “essentially contested concepts.” But because the…
Rights lawyer Li Jinxing (李金星) has been disbarred — for the usual absurd reasons. Here’s the statement made in his…
It seems that Sun Xiang, a delegate to the Hebei Provincial People’s Congress and all-around rich guy (worth around $1.1…
Over at the Supreme People’s Court Monitor blog, Susan Finder has an excellent post on a recent speech by Liu…
Adrian Zenz, perhaps the one person more responsible than any other for bringing the Xinjiang detentions to the attention of…
Last October, I posted a piece on the Lawfare blog about legal aspects—under Chinese domestic law—of the Xinjiang detentions. Earlier…
I had an enjoyable chat about Chinese law the other day with Jordan Schneider, host of the ChinaEconTalk podcast. Here’s…
On a China-related internet discussion group of which I’m a member, there was recently an exchange about the appropriateness of…
Explaining Party rules gives me the strange gratification of feeling like a lawyer that I have never felt when dealing…
When I wrote the paper The Rise of Party Commission of Discipline & Inspection (1927-2012) three years ago, I thought…