From 2019-2021, the U.S.-Asia Law Institute conducted a project to support the reform of China’s evidence rules as used in criminal trials. As part of that project, we translated into English this article by a leading Chinese criminal justice expert about the use of evidence in Chinese criminal cases.

From 2019-2021, the U.S.-Asia Law Institute conducted a project to support the reform of China’s evidence rules as used in criminal trials. As part of that project, we translated into English this article by a leading Chinese criminal justice expert about the use of evidence in Chinese criminal cases.

USALI researchers have collected and documented selected wrongful conviction cases in China with the aim of providing the first English-language case archive for people interested in learning about how wrongful convictions are redressed in China.

The Symposium on the Social Role of Corporations in Asia-Pacific is a collection of essays in the USALI East-West Studies series that examine the state of corporate ESG in six Asia-Pacific jurisdictions.

The controversial arrest and prosecution of former Nissan Motors Chairman Carlos Ghosn in November 2018 put Japanese criminal justice under a harsh international spotlight and caused comparative law scholars to ask: how unusual are Japan’s criminal justice procedures?

In the wake of China’s new law against sexual harassment taking effect on January 1, 2021, this new report by Chinese labor law expert Aaron Halegua examines the prevalence of gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) in the Chinese workplace and how such disputes are handled by employers and courts.

From 2019-2021, the U.S.-Asia Law Institute conducted a project to support the reform of China’s evidence rules as used in criminal trials.

A project to better understand the circumstances in which interstate maritime disputes are successfully resolved and distill lessons for governments.

This book reflects the most current thinking on how to achieve ethical and effective police interrogation.

A book examining pre-trial detention and the process to determine its conditions.

This book explores how certain ideas about justice have come to be dominant in Chinese polity and society and how some conceptions of justice have been rendered more powerful and legitimate than others.

Despite considerable progress, in China, as elsewhere, labor violations persist and a substantial “representation gap” remains between legal needs and services.

A translation of SPC Judicial Interpretation, SPP Judicial Interpretation, MPS Regulations & Glossary

This casebook shares the experience of other relevant jurisdictions, most immediately by examining how the death penalty is administered in the United States.

An examination of the 2011 Exclusionary Rules for Criminal Cases in China, with articles by USALI Affiliated Scholars.

Commentary on recent activities in Asia and beyond from a life of Asian legal research.