Chinese Law Prof Blog
Covers developments in Chinese law, especially related to American practitioners and the legal profession.
Author: Donald C. Clarke, a professor at George Washington University Law School and a specialist in Chinese law, edits the Chinese Law Blog, which is part of the Law Professor Blogs Network. Clarke also founded and maintains the Internet listserv The Chinalaw List.
Blawg Related Categories: International Law • Law Professors • International • Asia • China • George Washington University • Law Professor
Recent Posts from Chinese Law Prof Blog
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Prof. Benjamin Liebman and Chinese courts
Here's a nice profile of Ben Liebman, a fellow Chinese law professor at Columbia. It has some interesting points about Ben's work on Chinese courts.
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Liu Renwen on death by lethal injection
According to the China Daily, by the end of 2009, all executions in China Beijing will be by lethal injection instead of the traditional gunshot. (I've previously blogged here and here on this issue.) Here,…
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The Month The Censors Stopped Taking Their Medication
Here's an excellent post on Rebecca MacKinnon's blog on recent developments in censorship in China.
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Yet another barrier to entrepreneurship in China
I was talking the other day to a friend who is trying to get a small company registered in Beijing. Among the many roadblocks thrown up by the Beijing Administration of Industry and Commerce is…
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Jerome Cohen calls on Taiwanese lawyers to speak out
With the author's permission, I'm attaching here a recent op-ed by Jerome Cohen calling on Taiwanese lawyers to show the same courage exhibited by several admirable PRC lawyers (in much riskier circumstances) and to speak…
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Husband and wife successfully sue former mistress for return of 300,000 yuan in gifts
Here's an interesting story: after a man...
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Courts as fora for dissent
I was asked by the New York Times to contribute a very brief comment on the above subject; here's the result. (The other contributors' comments on dissent are also, of course, worth reading.)
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Yilishen executives go on trial
The Shanghai Daily reports that the Shenyang Intermediate Court began hearings on May 25th in the case of Wang Fengyou, the former president of Liaoning Yilishen Tianxi Group, and 54 other suspects who face various…
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More on the Deng Yujiao story
Here are some links and translations from the China Digital Times. The CDT story includes some photos of performance art put on by some Beijing college students in support of Deng Yujiao. The characters in…
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China's newest internet hero: waitress who fatally stabbed lecherous official
There are studies out there purporting to show that Chinese citizens score their government higher on various measures of satisfaction and legitimacy than do citizens of many Western democracies. It has always seemed to me…