This Week in Asian Law
Yuan Gao
This Week in Asian Law

Chinese universities conduct a nationwide audit of retracted academic papers; Hong Kong courts sentence more defendants in cases stemming from the 2019 protests; LGBTQ activists in Japan advocate for equal marriage rights on Valentine’s Day; South Korea convicts three former police officers for destroying evidence linked to a fatal crowd crush in Seoul on Halloween 2022; Taiwan solicits public input for the next phase of its Open Government National Action Plan.

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Alexis Sanborn
Faculty Director José E. Alvarez elected to the ...

USALI Faculty Director José E. Alvarez has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the oldest and most prestigious learned societies in the United States. He is among 252 new members announced on April 22, and one of only five law professors who were chosen.

Alexis Sanborn
ONLINE | Law, Justice and Human Rights in China ...

This 10-session seminar will introduce the legal system of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) – in practice as well as theory – with an emphasis on institutions, norms, procedures, personnel and ideology relating to constitutional law, criminal justice and human rights. We will view the contemporary legal process against the background of China’s legal traditions and pre-Communist efforts to develop a modern legal system. We will also consider the relevant experiences of Chinese societies in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

USALI News, US-China Relations, Recent Events, NYU Law
Alexis Sanborn
Jerome A. Cohen receives an honorary degree ...

Pioneering scholar of Chinese law, Professor Jerome Alan Cohen has taught and mentored countless others in a field he helped establish in this country. A courageous voice for those whose voices have been silenced, Professor Cohen defends human rights around the globe. Bold trailblazer and advocate, for using his many talents to create a more just world, Yale is proud to present Professor Jerome Alan Cohen with his third Yale degree, Doctor of Laws.

China, US-China Relations
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“Was Helping China Build Its Post-1978 Legal ...

From USALI Faculty Director Emeritus  Jerome A. Cohen: “Here’s a draft of a new article that in a way is my Apologia Pro Vita Sua. There have been some debates about whether those of us who tried to help China build its legal system in the decade beginning in 1979 committed a mistake. I offer my thoughts in the article from a frank, close-up, first-hand perspective. I hope they will be useful for people thinking about our China policy and for anyone interested in recent Chinese history.”

“Was Helping China Build Its Post-1978 Legal System a Mistake?”
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Kyoto Congress 2020: Japan’s Criminal Justice System: from a Comparative Law Perspective.

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This panel, as part of Kyoto Congress 2020 and organized by Japan’s Ministry of Justice presents a range of views and the discussion considers some fundamental issues concerning Japan's criminal justice system that underlie currently debates in Japan, such as balancing the (1) civil law inquisitorial tradition with a focus on "finding the truth" and the rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders into society with (2) increasing demands for greater emphasis on, and practical implementation of, rights of criminal defendants provided in the constitution. Notably, USALI Affiliated Scholar Bruce Aronson participated as a panelist in this event.

Watch here: http://www.un-congress.org/Session/View/ef0678bc-7b8e-437b-af96-10dffcafc810

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

USALI’s weekly round-up of legal news from Asia. This week’s highlights include: China’s NPC approves a decision to change Hong Kong’s election system; five of 47 activists charged under Hong Kong’s National Security Law are released on bail; Japan marks ten years since the Fukushima disaster; South Korea’s Supreme Court rejects an appeal for justice from former inmates of a government-supported facility that used them as slave labor during the era of military dictatorship; migrant domestic workers’ in Taiwan seek legal protections.

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

USALI’s weekly round-up of legal news from Asia. This week’s highlights include: China begins its annual plenary meetings of the legislature and a consultative body; Hong Kong charges 47 people under the National Security Law for holding a primary election; Japan advances legislation to criminalize stalking by GPS; a South Korean transgender woman discharged from the army after sex-change surgery is found dead; the chief justice of Taiwan’s Supreme Court makes a public apology over a corruption scandal.

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Event Recording: How Novel is China’s Use of International Economic Law

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Law Professors Fabio Morosini and Michelle R. Sanchez-Badin examine empirical data from Chinese investments in Brazil’s energy sector and find many similarities between China and Brazil in their choice of legal tools. What really sets China apart is the size of its economy, and therefore the greater impact its actions have on the existing legal order.

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

USALI’s weekly round-up of legal news from Asia. This week’s highlights include: China launches a National Database of Laws and Regulations; Hong Kong’s chief executive says the electoral system needs reform; Japanese officials say China’s new Coast Guard Law is escalating tensions; South Koreans are accusing sports and entertainment celebrities of having been bullies at school; some academics in Taiwan call for stiffer punishment of professors who take unauthorized grants from China.

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

USALI’s weekly round-up of legal news from Asia. This week’s highlights include: China and Hong Kong take BBC World News off the air, Hong Kong Bar Association and immigrant protection groups express concern over proposed change to immigration rules, Japan’s new COVID-19 measures face pushback, South Korea considers introducing a system to register births to resident foreigners, Taiwan may enshrine animal rights in its constitution.

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Hong Kong: The End of Delusion

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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.

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

USALI’s weekly round-up of legal news from Asia. This week’s highlights include: China’s judicial interpretation of the Criminal Procedure Law; Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize; Japan to fine COVID restrictions violators; South Korea impeaches a sitting a judge for the first time; Vietnam concludes its Communist Party Congress by giving General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong an unprecedented third term.

Event Recording: Making Hong Kong China

The people of Hong Kong riveted the world’s attention in 2019 by pouring into the streets to demand the autonomy, rule of law, and basic freedoms they were promised. Beijing responded on June 30, 2020, by imposing a new National Security Law aimed to snuff out protests. We will hear from Michael Davis, who has taught human rights and constitutional law in Hong Kong for over three decades and is the author of the recently published book, Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law.

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

USALI’s weekly round-up of legal news from Asia. This week’s highlights include: China’s congress releases seven draft laws or amendments for public comment; China says it will not recognize BNO passports held by Hong Kong residents as travel documents; Japan’s ruling party drops the idea of criminally prosecuting non-cooperative COVID-19 patients; a North Korean ambassador defects to South Korea; South Korea’s Constitutional Court allows a controversial new corruption investigation body to stand; Taiwan’s Judicial Yuan is accused of lowering ethical standards as judges are implicated in a corruption scandal; Vietnam’s Communist Party general secretary maneuvers for a third term.

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

USALI’s weekly round-up of legal news from Asia. This week’s highlights include China’s legislature considers a draft Legal Aid Law; civil servants in Hong Kong are required to sign a loyalty pledge; Japan’s Cabinet approves giving the government more powers to fight Covid-19; North Korea seeks to impose a penalty for anyone caught enjoying South Korean entertainment; Taiwan’s Supreme Court remands the criminal case against eight Sunflower movement activists to the High Court for retrial; a record number of delegates to attend Vietnam’s National Party Congress.