Outstanding new book on the Chinese legal system: “Embedded Courts,” by Ng & He

I just finished reading Embedded Courts by Kwai Hang Ng and Xin He. (I’ve linked to the Cambridge Univ. Press…

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Chinese administrative law symposium volume

I just received the announcement below from Neysun Mahboubi. I haven’t read the articles yet, but judging solely from the contributors…

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China Enters the Counter-Reform Era

Thanks to Don for inviting me to join his blogging effort!  Below, I’ll lay out my argument that China is…

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Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center seeks fellow/senior fellow

Here’s the announcement: https://law.yale.edu/system/files/area/center/china/document/announcement-fellow-ptcc.pdf The application deadline is April 20, 2018.

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Whataboutism: valid and invalid forms

A recent discussion on a Chinese politics discussion group of which I’m a member raised the issue of whataboutism. What…

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Critical theory in the service of authoritarianism

Just saw this wonderful tweet from Chris Buckley. Dang, wish I had said that! But seriously: using the language of…

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Fellowships at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China

I have received the following announcement: ______________________________________________________________________________________ FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT           Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) LIU XIAOBO FELLOWSHIP: The Congressional-Executive…

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Job opportunity: ANU seeks research fellow (tenure track) in criminology with focus on Asia-Pacific region

I have received the following announcement: The School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University is…

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US Supreme Court agrees to hear Vitamin C case

The Supreme Court decided today to hear a very important case revolving around the issue of how much deference US…

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A criminal lawyer’s take on the Patrick Ho case

Rob Precht contributed the following comment on the Patrick Ho case to the Chinalaw listserv; with his kind permission, I’m…

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