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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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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Resource center for lawyers and academics on countering extraditions to China

Safeguard Defenders has launched a resource center on extraditions to China. They describe it as follows: As the first of…

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The Muddled Case Against Xi Jinping’s Third Term

Xi Jinping’s third term as the head of the Party is not constrained by established norms of the Chinese Communist…

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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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Crimes Ordinance Sedition versus Hong Kong’s National Security Law: different legal tools, same outcome?

Just days before the New Year, Hong Kong’s National Security Department arrested seven individuals associated with the leading media outlet…

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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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