Comparing US and Chinese acquittal rates: apples and oranges?

After my last post on Chinese acquittal rates, I heard from Prof. David Johnson of the University of Hawai‘i (whose…

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Can you get around the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act by naming the Communist Party of China as a defendant?

The lawsuit filed by the Missouri attorney-general against various Chinese entities seeking compensation for COVID-19-related damages, unlike previous similar lawsuits,…

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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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Trade agreements versus memoranda of understanding

Given the recent public contretemps between Donald Trump and USTR Robert Lighthizer over the difference between a memorandum of understanding…

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