Book Series "Gender, Justice and Legal Feminism" (Springer) Book Series CALL FOR CHAPTERS CALL FOR CHAPTERS CALL FOR CHAPTERS Book Title: Echoes of Silence and the Hidden
Dynamics of Invisibility [...]
Book Series "Gender, Justice and Legal Feminism" (Springer) Book Series CALL FOR CHAPTERS CALL FOR CHAPTERS CALL FOR CHAPTERS Book Title: Echoes of Silence and the Hidden
Dynamics of Invisibility [...]
Call for Submissions Call for Submissions The Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics (AALL) is pleased to announce a call for submissions for its forthcoming interdisciplinary
volume titled [...]
This newsletter covers: 本期简讯包括: On February 25, 2019, the Supreme People’s Court (the “SPC”) of China released six new Guiding Cases (“GCs”), bringing
the total number of China’s de facto binding precedents to 112. More importantly, this marked the release of the first set of GCs that are related to the development [...]
China’s Open Door Policy initiated in 1978 set into motion a series of legal reforms aimed at promoting foreign investment in the country. Today, almost forty years later,
China’s Belt and Road Initiative, an ambitious plan rolled out by President Xi Jinping in 2013 to, inter alia, encourage foreign countries to open their doors to [...]
Seven years after China established its system of Guiding Cases (i.e., de facto binding precedents), the country is ready to take another groundbreaking step: building a case
system that focuses on intellectual property. Will this system be more in line with stare decisis, with judgments rendered by China’s IP courts considered formally [...]
This summer turned out to be another productive season for the China Guiding Cases Project (“CGCP”). Following a talk at the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing (“AmCham”)
and a visit to the Tongzhou District People’s Court in June, the CGCP organized, in collaboration with the International Law Institute, a seminar on China’s Guiding [...]
In 2013, approximately three years after the establishment of China’s Guiding Cases System (“GCS”), Judge John Walker, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit, Judge Sidney Stein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge LI Bing of the Supreme People’s Court (“SPC”) (who, together [...]
Since China established its Guiding Cases System in November 2010, 77 GCs have been released by the Supreme People’s Court. This is quite a remarkable achievement in a country
that has traditionally focused on statutes. But a real indicator of success lies in the total number of similar subsequent cases (“SCs”) that refer to GCs. [...]