China Judgments Online, a database of legal documents run by the Supreme People’s Court, has removed nearly all administrative proceeding verdicts from its website. It is a major retreat from an earlier era of judicial...
Since his ascension to the top of the Party in 2012, Xi Jinping has shown little tolerance for “historical nihilism,” a catch-all term for critical appraisals of the Party’s rise and rule. The Party made a concerted push to...
A vast online database of Chinese court rulings has just shrunk by over 9%. Though China Judgments Online (中国裁判文书网), launched in 2014 by the Supreme People’s Court, has always been translucent at best—it is supposed to exclude...
Over the past decade, China’s “crude divorce rate,” the number of divorces per...
China’s top tech companies have often expressed willingness to share users’ personal...
Human Rights Watch has criticized China’s new counter-terrorism law for its potential to...
In an annual report during the recently concluded annual session of the National People’s...
Following condemnation of “Western ‘constitutional democracy,’ ‘separation of powers,’ ‘judicial...
At Reuters, Ben Blanchard reports on a new judicial interpretation from the Supreme People’s...
State media last weekend reported that Supreme People’s Court Chief Justice Zhou Qiang...
When Finance Minister Lou Jiwei criticized China’s Labor Contract Law for protecting workers too...
At People’s Daily Online, Luxiao Zou reports anger over the promotion of two judges who...
Ting Shi at Bloomberg reports that the Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline...
As China edges towards greater legal protections for sufferers of domestic abuse, a Sichuan court...
Following the recent state media announcement that former security chief Zhou Yongkang will...
The Party’s unveiling of its vision for a “Socialist rule of law” last fall,...
In a commentary translated at Dui Hua Human Rights Journal, The Beijing News’ Zhu Changjun...
Xinhua reports the retrial in Inner Mongolia of a man executed nearly twenty years ago: The...
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