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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Oops, they did it again

Once again clearly breaching its obligations under a consular relations treaty, China has refused to allow Australian diplomatic representatives to…

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