The Tangshan gang verdict: some comments

Today’s news carries reports that a court in Langfang, Hebei Province, has sentenced 28 gang members to a range of…

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Big mistakes in the editing of Cai Xia’s article in “Foreign Affairs”

Foreign Affairs has let down Cai Xia in both its editing and its translation of her piece on Xi Jinping…

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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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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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