Legal and Political Education With Chinese Characteristics...
I have been reading article on Chinese Legal Education authored by the American scholar Carl Minzner, The Rise and Fall of Chinese Legal Education, Fordham International Law Journal, Vol. 36, No. 2,...
View ArticleOn the Current State of China's Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors...
Chinese authorities first promulgated the Provisional Measures on Administration of Domestic Securities Investments of Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors in 2002. It has since been revised in...
View ArticlePart XXVIII—Zhiwei Tong (童之伟) Series: How to Restrict Power in the Cage of...
(Zhiwei Tong, PIX (c) Larry Catá Backer)For 2012, this site introduced the thought of Zhiwei Tong (童之伟), one of the most innovative scholars of constitutional law in China. Professor Tong has been...
View ArticleNew Paper Posted -- Towards a Robust Theory of the Chinese Constitutional...
I have been considering the development of modern Chinese constitutionalism. In particular, I have been considering the unique structures of Chinese constitutionalism beyond the constitutional...
View ArticleXi Jinping's Constitutional Vision: Speech on the 30th Anniversary of the...
In the wake of the transition of leadership in China at the end of 2012, there has been a notable amount of attention paid to issues of constitutional structure and integrity. These movements have...
View ArticleNorwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund Excludes Makers of Reconstituted Tobacco Leaf...
On May 8, 2013, the Norwegian Ministry of Finance published its decision to exclude the American company Schweitzer-Mauduit International Inc. and the Chinese company Huabao International Holdings...
View ArticleChinese SOEs in Latin America--CSR and Culture
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View ArticleRuminations 49: "Society Knows What it Wants"-- Of Markets, Status...
In his germinal text, Henry David Thoreau expressed a contradiction that is worth exploring in some detail. He declared: the "greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be...
View ArticlePresentation at 2013 Annual Meeting Law and Society: Whose Crisis? Secular...
The Law and Society Association held its 2013 Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts this year. I presented a paper, entitled,
View ArticleNew Paper Posted: "State and Party in the Scientific Development of a...
The City University of Hong Kong's Centre for Comparative and Chinese Law is hosting an International Conference on “The Rule of Law With Chinese Characteristics in Transition” to be held 5-7 June 2013...
View ArticleOn the Relationship Between the Chinese Communist Party and Non-State...
The relationship between Communist Party and State has been the object of substantial work among Chinese and foreign academics. But perhaps more interesting is the emerging relationship between the...
View ArticleThe Role of the Chinese Communist Party in Business Enterprises--Law,...
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View ArticleBeth Farmer on the Chinese Commerce Ministry's Interim Regulations on...
My colleague, Beth Farmer has written an excellent analysis of the new Chinese interim regulations on standards for simple mergers. S. Beth Farmer, "MOFCOM Publishes Interim Regulations on Standards...
View ArticleRuminations 50: Edward Snowden and Polycentric Global Governance Orders...
The last several weeks have brought much attention to issues of the cyber warfare that governments have been waging amongst themselves and with a in increasingly larger set of non state...
View ArticleInternational Conference on “The Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics in...
It was my great pleasure to participate in the City University of Hong Kong's Centre for Comparative and Chinese Law International Conference on “The Rule of Law With Chinese Characteristics in...
View ArticleOrdering Markets for Academic Knowledge Goes Global: Pablo Lerner on "Foreign...
The production of knowledge, especially among academics, is not simply offered for consumption. Like all consumables, it is judged and valued in the market within which it is offered. And again, like...
View ArticleDemocracy Part 28/Ruminations 51: On the Contradiction of Voting, Democracy...
Form my American Independence Day post seven years ago I noted:Every Independence Day, many Americans take their Declaration of Independence out of its shroud, admire it, proclaim their allegiance to...
View ArticleSara Seck on "Kiobel and the E-word: Reflections on Transnational...
Sara Seck is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario. Professor Seck's research interests include corporate social responsibility, international environmental, human rights, and...
View ArticleOn the Role of the Chinese Communist Party in Overseas Chinese Companies--A...
With my research assistant Shan Gao (SJD Candidate Penn State) I have been exploring the role of the Chinese Communist Party within private and public companies in China. The object is to try to...
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