Join the NYU Law Colloquium on Law and Security on Thursday, April 15, 2021, from 3:20 to 5:20 PM for a presentation by Elizabeth Economy of the Council on Foreign Relations entitled, “China’s Global Ambitions and U.S. Policy.” If you are interested in attending, please email Theresa Allison at allisont@mercury.law.nyu.edu for Zoom link.
Conversation about Evidence Rules in the US and China
Recorded on April 5, 2021 (Chinese Language Only)
In this program hosted by无讼学院（Wusong Network Technology), USALI Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor Ira Belkin, Research Scholar Amy Gao, and Professor Guo Zhiyuan from China University of Political Science and Law introduce a five-part bilingual course on the U.S. Evidence Rules produced by USALI and currently being offered for free in China by Wusong. Professor Belkin explains why we made the course and its key takeaways. Professor Guo discusses the relevance of the US evidence rules for China. The three-way conversation was livestreamed in China on April 5.
This Week in Asian Law
USALI’s weekly round-up of legal news from Asia. This week’s highlights include: the SPP pursues accountability for wrongful convictions; Hong Kong’s Court of Appeals says the ban on wearing masks at illegal gatherings is constitutional; Taiwan’s legislature to look into fatal train crash; the organizing committee for the Tokyo Olympics threatens legal action over leaked plans for the opening ceremony; South Korea relaxes application of cap on weekly work hours; Vietnam’s National Assembly elects a new prime minister and president.
Event Recording: Labor Protections for Overseas Chinese Workers
This Week in Asian Law
USALI’s weekly round-up of legal news from Asia. This week’s highlights include: China declares victory in its three-year campaign against organized crime; seven prominent democrats are convicted of unauthorized assembly in Hong Kong; Taiwan faces calls to give same-sex couples equal adoption rights; Japan tells those recovering from COVID-19 to skip voting in local elections; South Korea’s president confronts the fallout from a real estate scandal.
Event Recording: Remaking American Trade Policy with Asia
Deborah Elms talks about prospects for achieving Biden’s trade goals in Asia and the challenges faced by US trade diplomacy in the region. Learn more about the speaker, further reading, and the event.
This Week in Asian Law
USALI’s weekly round-up of legal news from Asia. This week’s highlights include: A Chinese court holds a brief, closed trial for Canadian Michael Kovrig; the Hong Kong Court of Appeals rules that the doctrine of “joint enterprise“ can be used to prosecute persons who were not physically present at 2019’s protests; the Japanese government halts use of the free messaging app Line by government officials after a serious data breach involving a Chinese firm; a North Korean national is extradited to the US from Malaysia to face money laundering charges; Taiwan’s Supreme Court issues a decision that could makes it easier to reopen alleged wrongful conviction cases; Vietnam’s National Assembly begins its annual plenum to elect a new government leadership.
Event Recording: Ethical Dilemmas of the China Scholar
This panel explores the diverse ethical challenges that may arise when teaching and researching about China from outside China. Concerns about ethical field research and censorship pressures are not new but have been heightened by China’s authoritarian turn and recent events in Hong Kong and Xinjiang. Not since the Vietnam War has China scholarship been so politicized.
Event Recording: Asian Supply Chains & Human Rights
This Week in Asian Law
USALI’s weekly round-up of legal news from Asia. This week’s highlights include: A Chinese court holds a brief, closed trial for Canadian Michael Spavor; the Hong Kong government formally introduces a bill requiring district councillors to take loyalty oaths; a Japanese court says the failure to recognize same-sex marriage is unconstitutional; South Korea acquits 335 Jeju Islanders convicted in a 1948 insurrection; Taiwan makes it easier for foreign, Hong Kong, and Macau non-profits to open offices.
Kyoto Congress 2020: Japan’s Criminal Justice System: from a Comparative Law Perspective.
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
Event Recording: Lifting the Corporate Veil on China's State-Owned Enterprises
In Memoriam: S. Andrew Schaffer
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.
Event Recording: Building a New Legal Order for the Oceans
NPR: How China's Massive Corruption Crackdown Snares Entrepreneurs Across The Country
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.
Event Recording: How Novel is China’s Use of International Economic Law
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
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
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.