In Memoriam: Stanley Bernard Lubman (March 29, 1934 – October 29, 2024)

Stanley Lubman, a beloved colleague and a giant in the field, passed away last October. I’ve collected some tributes here…

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Annual Conference of the Younger Comparativists Committee, American Society of Comparative Law

Here’s the announcement: AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COMPARATIVE LAW YOUNGER COMPARATIVISTS COMMITTEE CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT The Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) of the…

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Chinese law in Salt Lake City, Feb. 5

For The China Collection‘s vast Utah readership, the following may be of interest: a discussion of legal issues of doing…

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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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Workshop for PhD students in Europe researching Chinese law

I have received the following announcement: On 24 May 2019, the China-EU School of Law Consortium Office, at Universität Hamburg,…

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Congratulations to Oxford prof Matthew Erie for big grant on “Illiberal Law & Development: China and the World”

Here’s the announcement.

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New book: The People’s Republic of the Disappeared

Here’s a summary and review in the New York Times of an important new book, The People’s Republic of the…

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