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Building public infrastructures in China increasingly relies heavily on private firms. Public-private partnership (PPP) contracts sideline government procurement. Can PPP contracts be litigated in court? @peng_xianqi evaluates: blog.uni-koeln.de/eclrhub/2025/0…

Call for Abstracts! The Annual Conference of our European Chinese Law Studies Association takes us to the @UCC in Cork, Ireland🍀ucc.ie/en/law/europea…

How does the Communist Party discipline its members? Shuyu Chu applies a Foucauldian lens to analyze the #disciplinaryinfrastructures blog.uni-koeln.de/eclrhub/2025/0…

Call for Papers: Join our workshop Smart Courts in Comparative Perspective: Chinese Approaches and Global Developments - 7-8 July at Cologne University linkedin.com/posts/eclrhub_…

Honor to chat with @QST85 about his new book on government-to-homeowner associations in China's urban neighborhoods! Q&A is here: blog.uni-koeln.de/eclrhub/2025/0…

Join us in discussing with Dr. Congrui Qiao her book "Chinese Rules and Procedures for Addressing Mass Actions" at @DurhamLawSchool's reading group on December 6, 2 PM London time. forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

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In our latest blogpost, Alexandr Svetlicinii & Fali Xie look at the PRC equivalent of anti-suit injunctions, the 行为保全措施, and their use in patent litigation. blog.uni-koeln.de/eclrhub/2024/1…

Some problems with this diagram of China's political-legal (zhengfa) system 1. The diagram draws a curious direct line between the Ministry of Public Security and subnational (provincial) zhengfawei (political-legal committee). Unless there is some secret new development that I do not know about, the indicated relation is false and it would violate the core operational principle of the Party. Zhengfawei answers to the Party committee of the same level and the latter answers and answers ONLY to the superior Party committee. That is the golden principle of the operation of the Party - if the Ministry of Public Security wants a provincial committee to do certain things, it has to go through the Party system of the same level, namely, any tier of decision-making body at the Party Center depending on the nature/significance of the issue. If the Party Center decides to take actions, it will send commands to sub-national Party committees directly or through its subcommittee, such as the Central Political-Legal Committee. The Ministry of Public Security or any ministry really, for this matter, simply cannot overstep the boundaries and directly command a Party committee to do things. Direct communication between the leaders of these two institutions is of course possible at the informal/personal level, but this diagram is supposed to reflect the formal relations only. 2. The diagram does not reflect the full picture of the PRC political-legal system but only of the state institutions (courts, procuratorates, public security, state security, justice department) that are under the purview of zhengfawei. The book puts the supervision/disciplinary institutions in a separate chapter and the legislature/people's congresses in yet another chapter. These two institutions are excluded from the diagram because I believe the editors want to structure the book through different lines of command within the Party administration system even though both are essential parts of the PRC political-legal system in the general sense as well.

On Oct 18 at 8 AM ET, @fu10zheng will present her paper (coauthored with Gil Eyal), “The Work of Legitimacy: The Implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law in a Chinese City.” Discussants: @EliDFriedman and @ProfLiuSida. Chair: @Yimang_SOC. To register: tinyurl.com/workoflegitima…

With a reform of the way prosecutors are evaluated within the administration comes a broader transition in the role of the prosecution in China - argue Peter C.H. Chan and @Aiden21343 in their latest paper, featured on our blog: blog.uni-koeln.de/eclrhub/2024/0…

Call for Abstracts - The "Legal Dimension of China's Presence in Latin America" workshop+publication project seeks researchers to explore the understudied legal implications of China's growing influence in the region. monikaprusinowska.com/call-for-abstr…

Heading to day two of the Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association ecls.eu Hong Kong style

After a brillant keynote by @PKU1898 Law Dean Prof GUO Li, we are now discussing the civil code, ideological speech in law and effects of live broadcasting trials with Yingmai Tang, @BuiNSon B Pissler and S Seppänen

Our Annual Conference programme is out! Join us at the campus of @CUHKLaw in Central, Hong Kong in a week: webapp3.law.cuhk.edu.hk/conf/20240919/…

University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Associate Professor / Professor, Munk Chair in Global China h-net.org/jobs/job_displ…

Published today: Legal Reform in the Contemporary Socialist World global.oup.com/academic/produ…

The @AsianJofLS is soliciting contributions for a special issue on law and punishment in Asia. Find the call here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…