Huawei and the Law, in U.S. and China
Chinese telecom giant Huawei retaliated against criminal charges from the U.S. this week with a...
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Sinopsis: Huawei’s Lawfare by Proxy
The following article has been reposted from Project Sinopsis, with permission: Lawfare by proxy:...
Judges and Lawyers Forced to Get in Line or Get Out
China’s rulers unequivocally see the country’s legal system as an instrument of power. Those...
The Fourth Plenum’s Rule of Law Rorschach Test
The Party’s Fourth Plenum last month laid out its vision of a “Socialist rule of...
Zhou Yongkang and Rule of Law
Like the fall of Bo Xilai before it, last week’s announcement of a disciplinary investigation into...
Murong Xuecun: Inside a Beijing Interrogation Room
Having described his eight-and-a-half hour detention last week to The New York Times’ Edward...
Party to Regulate Recruitment & Internal Procedures
In a pair of posts at The Diplomat, Shannon Tiezzi examines signs of a drive to regulate the...
What Beijing Means by Reform and Rule of Law
When the South China Morning Post reported this month that a key upcoming Party meeting would...
Rights Lawyers and Rule of Law: Interview with Eva Pils
In a three-part conversation with China Law and Policy’s Elizabeth M. Lynch, the Chinese...
Party Plenum’s Likely Focus: Rule of Law, Zhou Yongkang
Several sources have told the South China Morning Post that this year’s Party Central...
Anxiety Trumps Law in Party’s Crackdown on Activists
At China Real Time, Stanley Lubman comments that the recent trials of Xu Zhiyong and other New...
Unprecedented Change on the Way, Says Yu Zhengsheng
With the 3rd Plenum of the 18th CCP Congress less than month away, Yu Zhengsheng, the No.4 member...
Laws on Paper vs. Law in Practice
A State Council white paper on China’s legal system raised eyebrows last month by proclaiming the country’s “comparatively complete legal system to protect human rights”. Stanley Lubman looks at topics...
Don Clarke & Li Tiantian: Two Takes on the Jasmine Revolution in China
At China Law & Policy, Elizabeth M. Lynch contrasts Professor Don Clarke’s recent essay about the Jasmine crackdown and China’s legal system with Li Tiantian’s explanation of her three-month disappearance,...
Jerome Cohen: Thirty Years of Chinese Legal Reform
From the Wall Street Journal: As the 30-year anniversary of China’s reform and opening draws near, the Foreign Correspondents Club of Hong Kong Thursday hosted China legal expert extraordinaire Jerome Cohen, who discussed the...
The Essence of China’s Laws is “Legalized Power to Cause Damage” – Wang Lixiong (王力雄)
Wang Lixiong is an author and independent thinker lives in Beijing. He published following essay on Boxun.com, translated by CDT: On the one hand the country must “stick to the Party’s leadership”, and on the...
A Judge Tests China’s Courts, Making History – Jim Yardley
From The New York Times: Judge Li Huijuan happened to be in the courthouse file room when clerks, acting on urgent orders, began searching for a ruling on a mundane case about seed prices. “I handled that case,” Judge Li told the clerks, surprised that anyone would be interested. Li Huijuan, then an idealistic student, […]
Is the rule of law coming to China? – Trudy Rubin
From the Miami Herald: One of the most exciting developments in China is the rising awareness at the grass-roots level that ordinary people have legal rights. Chinese law has long been used as a tool to help the Communist Party control the people; call it rule by law, not rule of law. But the country’s […]
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