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ChineseLawProfBloghttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesBeijing rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong's Open Constitution Initiative slapped with 1.42 million yuan tax finetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01157117ce26970c2009-07-16T02:49:51-04:002009-07-16T06:50:21Z2009-07-16T06:49:51ZTake a good look at the Open Constitutio...Donald ClarkeNews - Chinese LawPeople and InstitutionsEnforcement of Chinese-foreign contracts: some counterintuitive viewstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0115710dd9c3970c2009-07-14T06:58:15-04:002009-07-14T10:58:15Z2009-07-14T10:58:15ZHere's a nicely paired set of posts from the China Law Blog: 1. Foreigners can often ignore their contractual obligations to Chinese companies, because Chinese companies (at least in some circumstances - read the post) have a strange reluctance to...Donald ClarkeCommentaryAustralia's Rio Tinto employees detained in Shanghaitag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011570e4556d970c2009-07-08T07:00:51-04:002009-07-08T11:00:51Z2009-07-08T11:00:51ZThe use of state power to back up one side in commercial disputes is not uncommon in China. In what may be another example (too soon to tell), the Financial Times reports that four employees of Rio Tinto, currently in...Donald ClarkeNews - Chinese LawWhen (and why) to have your contract in Chinesetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011571c78b1e970b2009-07-06T06:11:57-04:002009-07-06T10:11:57Z2009-07-06T10:11:57ZHere's a good post on the subject from Dan Harris at the Chinalaw blog.Donald ClarkeCommentaryProf. Benjamin Liebman and Chinese courtstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011570c2e5b4970c2009-07-04T11:59:59-04:002009-07-04T15:59:59Z2009-07-04T15:59:59ZHere'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.Donald ClarkePeople and InstitutionsLiu Renwen on death by lethal injectiontag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0115715e0ff7970b2009-06-25T23:57:02-04:002009-07-02T04:24:36Z2009-06-26T03:57:02ZAccording 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, in translation courtesy of the...Donald ClarkeCommentaryNews - Chinese LawThe Month The Censors Stopped Taking Their Medicationtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0115715d31dc970b2009-06-25T22:59:14-04:002009-06-26T02:59:14Z2009-06-26T02:59:14ZHere's an excellent post on Rebecca MacKinnon's blog on recent developments in censorship in China.Donald ClarkeCommentaryNews - Chinese LawYet another barrier to entrepreneurship in Chinatag:typepad.com,2003:post-684321172009-06-24T00:22:07-04:002009-06-24T04:22:07Z2009-06-24T04:22:07ZI 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 this amazing (to me, anyway)...Donald ClarkeCommentaryJerome Cohen calls on Taiwanese lawyers to speak outtag:typepad.com,2003:post-681552072009-06-16T07:00:55-04:002009-06-16T11:00:55Z2009-06-16T11:00:55ZWith 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 out against abuses and in...Donald ClarkeCommentaryHusband and wife successfully sue former mistress for return of 300,000 yuan in giftstag:typepad.com,2003:post-680854752009-06-14T02:12:07-04:002009-06-14T06:12:07Z2009-06-14T06:12:07ZHere's an interesting story: after a man...Donald ClarkeCommentaryNews - Chinese LawCourts as fora for dissenttag:typepad.com,2003:post-676134792009-06-03T23:37:55-04:002009-06-04T03:37:55Z2009-06-04T03:37:55ZI 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.)Donald ClarkeCommentaryYilishen executives go on trialtag:typepad.com,2003:post-673133272009-05-27T05:34:10-04:002009-05-27T13:17:56Z2009-05-27T09:34:10ZThe 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 criminal charges in connection with...Donald ClarkeNews - Chinese LawMore on the Deng Yujiao storytag:typepad.com,2003:post-672672132009-05-26T01:49:11-04:002009-05-26T05:53:21Z2009-05-26T05:49:11ZHere 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 the photo here say, "Anyone...Donald ClarkeNews - Chinese LawChina's newest internet hero: waitress who fatally stabbed lecherous officialtag:typepad.com,2003:post-672363332009-05-25T01:24:36-04:002009-05-25T07:00:04Z2009-05-25T05:24:36ZThere 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 naive to take these at...Donald ClarkeCommentaryNews - Chinese LawJust in time for the Grammys: The Song of the People's Judgestag:typepad.com,2003:post-667068932009-05-12T22:16:24-04:002009-05-13T02:16:24Z2009-05-13T02:16:24ZHere it is: 人民法官之歌 (Song of the People's...Donald ClarkeNews - Miscellaneous