The Great Firewall of Chinese Academia
On June 21, former Peking University Law School professor Gong Renren published an essay on the...
Chinese law
Foreign Firms Appeal for Delay of Cybersecurity Law
Amendments to China’s new Cybersecurity Law, which is set to take effect on June 1, will require a...
Bo Xilai: Out of Sight, But Not Out of Mind
At China Real Time, Chinese law specialist Stanley Lubman writes that following the failure of Bo...
Constitutionalism and Socialism: Hot Potatoes
At China Media Project, David Bandurski argues that “there is now little doubt that the defining...
Prof Reluctantly Apologizes for Rape Comment
Already a member of the cohort of privileged elite adolescents that often breed disdain in China due to his past misbehavior, Li Tianyi, son of decorated PLA singer Li Shuangjiang, was arrested for suspicion of involvement in a...
Jerome A. Cohen and Yu-Jie Chen: Taiwan’s Criminal Defense Lawyers and China’s
From US-Asia Law Institute: The Chinese government’s continuing attacks on human rights lawyers rarely make foreign headlines these days. Monitoring, intimidating, disbarring and prosecuting activist lawyers have become routine...
Zhang Wen: Lawyers Need Obey Nothing But the “Law”
Writer/blogger Zhang Wen (章文), former head of the editorial department of Xinhua’s Globe magazine, is now an active advocate for political reform. Here is one of his recent blog posts, translated and summarized by an anonymous...
ProState in Flames Attacker Charged with Intentional Injury
The man who in February 14 stabbed blogger Xu Lai at a book reading in February has been formally charged with intentional injury. Danwei translates this article from the Mirror (Chinese): There are new developments in blogger...
Dissident Writer Liu Xiaobo Held in Secret after Sentence Ends
By Jonathan Landreth for the Times Online: With his maximum six months detention just ended, the dissident writer Liu Xiaobo remained in custody in an undisclosed Beijing location today as authorities continued to hold him in...
Six Months Later: What’s Next for Liu Xiaobo?
As reported earlier on CDT, the lawyer representing Liu Xiaobo has called on authorities to either release the Charter ’08 co-author or formally charge him. The Dui Hua Human Rights Journal has compiled a list of...
Facing Counterfeiting Crackdown, Beijing Vendors Fight Back
The Silk Street Market in Beijing is famous among locals and tourists alike as a massive mall of fake designer goods. Now Silk Street vendors of counterfeit bags and clothing are protesting a crackdown on their stalls by the...
New Round of Judicial Reform
Caijing reporter Qin Xudong writes on the urgent need for legal reform in China and the problems ahead. But certain protocol common in developed court systems might be in store. A subtle re-orientation can be sensed in the...
China Opens Door to Taiwan’s Lawyers
From the Taipei Times: Taiwanese have been given the green light to take China’s judicial exam to practice law in China, China’s state media reported yesterday. Ding Lu (丁露), director of China’s National Judicial Examination...
Heavy Fines Await Water Polluters
China Daily reports on a new draft amendment to the National People’s Congress water pollution and control law in China. The amendment would raise the upper limits of how much a water-polluting company would have to pay,...
A Mild Shanghai Lawyer and His Accidental Crusade
This personal profile, which appeared in the New York Times a couple of weeks ago, is not to be missed. It reminds people that, while the Chinese online activism and internaitonal pressure won the release of the SARS doctor Jiang Yanyong last summer, rights defense at grassroots level is catching on, yet still very difficult. […]
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