U.S.-Asia Law Institute Research Scholar Chi Yin published an article, “People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump: The Trial and Conviction of a Former U.S. President,” on Wolters Kluwer’s Chinese language website. She and her co-author, Arthur Chiu of Cyan Law Firm, analyze the former president’s conviction in the hush-money case to clarify common misunderstandings in China about the US criminal justice system and its relationship to the political system. Read more.
USALI Research Scholar Chi Yin Analyses China's Non-Prosecution Practices
U.S.-Asia Law Institute Research Scholar Chi Yin published an article, China's Non-Prosecution Mechanism: a Raft in China's Healthcare Anticorruption Campaign? in Thomson Reuters (Practical Law).
ChinaFile: What Future for International NGOs in China? by USALI Executive Director Katherine Wilhelm
USALI Executive Director Katherine Wilhelm recently published a commentary as part of a ChinaFile Conversation titled “What Future for International NGOs in China?” Wilhelm wrote:
No organization should compromise its mission in order to keep a China program active. And virtually no one would consciously do that: It could alienate staff and key stakeholders and court public controversy. Staying in China is not an end in itself. At the same time, it is difficult for large organizations to completely ignore China given its impact on the planet. The real dilemma, therefore, is figuring out how to achieve the organizational mission as it applies to China.
Are countries fulfilling the promise of the Violence and Harassment Convention?
"Beijing’s Crackdown on Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Hong Kong" by Michael C. Davis
JILP: Biden's International Law Restoration by USALI Faculty Director José Alvarez
USALI Faculty Director and NYU Law Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law José Alvarez recently published an article in NYU Law’s Journal of International Law and Politics (JILP) entitled “Biden’s International Law Restoration,” in Volume 53, Number 2 – Winter 2021. JILP is a student-run publication devoted to commentary on contemporary issues in international and comparative law. JILP features articles on international legal topics by leading scholars and practitioners and notes, case comments, and book annotations written by journal members.
Read Biden’s International Law Restoration, 53 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 523 (2021).
Hong Kong: The End of Delusion
As the Hong Kong and Beijing governments continue their assault on civil society in the territory — through tactics ranging from arbitrary arrests and attacks on the legal profession to the gutting of liberal studies and the inculcation of loyalty to the CCP in the guise of "patriotism," neither "China experts" at large, nor professedly left-leaning academics, have engaged in any critical self-reflection on their culpability in Hong Kong's demise, writes Alvin Y.H. Cheung.
The Asia Pacific Journal: Comparative Reflections on the Carlos Ghosn Case and Japanese Criminal Justice
The arrest and prosecution of Nissan executive Carlos Ghosn, together with his dramatic flight from Japan, have focused unprecedented attention on Japan’s criminal justice system. This article employs comparison with the United States to examine issues in Japanese criminal justice highlighted by the Ghosn case.
Labour Protections for Overseas Chinese Workers: Legal Framework and Judicial Practice
The Diplomat: The Vagaries of Crime and Punishment in China
The Diplomat: The Misuse of China’s Mental Hospitals
CFR: Is Hong Kong Still Autonomous? What to Know About China’s New Laws
ChinaFile: How Will China Shape Global Governance?
SCMP: A decade after Chinese human rights lawyers Tang Jitian and Liu Wei were disbarred, much has changed – for the worse
The Diplomat: Trump Is Right That the WHO Has a China Problem. Cutting Funding Isn’t the Answer.
The Diplomat: Wang Quanzhang and China’s ‘Non-Release Release’
SCMP: China should not use the coronavirus as an excuse to silence human rights activists like Wang Quanzhang
CFR Publication: Why Does the WHO Exclude Taiwan?
Transitional Justice in Taiwan: Changes and Challenges
Taiwan’s experience with transitional justice over the past three decades suggests that dealing with historical injustice is a dynamic and fluid process that is fundamentally shaped and constrained by the balance of power and socio-political reality in a particular transitional society. This Article provides a contextualized legal-political analysis of the evolution of Taiwan’s transitional justice regime, with special attention to its limits and challenges.