Impeachment of South Korean president: legal criteria

I’m going to go a bit off track in this post, which is not about Chinese law at all. Instead,…

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Tributes to Rob Britt, East Asian law librarian extraordinaire, d. June 23, 2023

I was very sorry to hear of the passing last month of Rob Britt. Rob was the librarian in charge…

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USCC hearing May 4th on “Rule by Law: China’s Increasingly Global Legal Reach”

I and several other folks from the Chinese law world will be testifying tomorrow (May 4th) before the U.S.-China Economic…

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Texas bill to ban purchase of real estate by Chinese: some unintended consequences?

Texas state senator Lois Kolkhorst (R) has proposed to the state senate a bill that would ban “the purchase of…

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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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The Manning/Burrows article on Biden’s “democracy agenda”: what they get wrong

A recent article by Robert Manning and Mathew Burrows, The Problem with Biden’s Democracy Agenda, criticizes Biden for his supposed…

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The Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act: some questions

On December 2, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (the “HFCAA” or the “Act”).…

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Recent USCIS Policy Alert regarding Communist Party membership: what’s new?

USCIS has adopted a policy that will make it easier to find aliens inadmissible on the grounds of Communist Party…

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Overreactions to the WeChat ban

The ban on WeChat will not cut people in the US off from their friends and family in China. They…

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Margaret Lewis, “Criminalizing China”

“People and entities who have connections to the governing party-state structure of the PRC have engaged in trade secret theft…

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