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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?”

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

This week’s highlights include: China tightens restrictions on private schools and requires them to pursue public welfare, not profit; an ordinance takes effect requiring Hong Kong public officers to take an oath to uphold the Basic Law; the Japanese government drops its plan to revise the immigration law after a Sri Lankan woman died in an immigration detention facility; the South Korean government considers allowing more foreigners to work as domestic workers; Taiwan’s president issues her first pardon to an indigenous Bunun man controversially convicted of weapons and poaching offenses.

USALI Co-hosts U.S.-China Legal Aid Dialogue

China’s legislature is expected to approve the country’s first Legal Aid Law later this year. The current draft, which has passed its first reading, could expand the pool of criminal defendants eligible for legal aid – and increase demand for lawyers. Below are links to transcripts of presentations that four Chinese legal experts made at the U.S.-China Legal Aid Dialogue co-hosted by the U.S.-Asia Law Institute at NYU and the National Institute of Legal Aid at the China University of Political Science and Law in April 2021. The transcripts were originally published in the journal Renmin Fazhi or People’s Rule of Law.

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

This week’s highlights include: China proposes to tighten automobile data security; the Hong Kong government proposes to criminalize doxing; Japan’s amendment to its referendum law advances in the Diet; the South Korean government is criticized for asking Google to take down far more content than other governments; Taiwan’s Control Yuan urges action to curb human rights abuses on fishing vessels flying the Taiwan flag.

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 promulgates a law to punish restaurants and diners who waste food; Hong Kong’s executive researches a “fake news“ law; Japan’s Diet advances a bill that may make it easier to amend the Constitution; South Korea’s special corruption investigation agency releases controversial rules allowing it to preempt prosecutors; Taiwan’s Constitutional Court upholds most restrictions on indigenous hunting.

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 amends the Food Safety Law, Advertising Law, and eight other laws; Hong Kong approves a controversial immigration bill that critics fear will give rise to ‘exit bans’; the head of the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee joins an LGBTQ event and calls for an equality law; a South Korean ministry plans to allow children to take either of their parents’ surnames; Taiwan considers how to protect its fishing industry if Japan dumps radioactive waste water into the Pacific Ocean.

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"Beijing’s Crackdown on Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Hong Kong" by Michael C. Davis

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This essay examines how Beijing’s escalating crackdown on Hong Kong has systematically imposed authoritarian policies that undermine international human rights and the rule of law, abandoning China’s commitments both to the Hong Kong people and to the international community.

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Faculty Director José E. Alvarez elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

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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.

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 unveils an ambitous legislative plan for 2021; Hong Kong slides down on the world press freedom index; a Japanese court refuses to let a married couple enter different family names in the family register; a Seoul court rejects the request of 20 former “comfort women” for compensation from Japan; Taiwan passes an Occupational Accident Insurance and Protection Act.

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Event Recording: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Anti-Trust

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Angela Zhang discusses her new book Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation. Professor Zhang examines the unique ways in which China regulates and is regulated by foreign countries, revealing a “Chinese exceptionalism” that is reshaping global antitrust regulation.

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Event Recording: Reforming the Global Public Health Regime: Asian Perspectives

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Our panel of experts from Asia will share their ideas about how the world community should harness the emergency to improve the way global public health programs are organized and funded, both to address longstanding problems of health inequality and insecurity and prepare for future pandemics.

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 anti-trust agency fines Alibaba $2.75 billion; a Hong Kong judge approves a settlement between HSBC and Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou giving her access to documents she seeks to fight extradition to the US; Japan considers increasing the penalty for online slander after the apparent suicide of a reality show performer; South Korea considers taking Japan to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to stop it from releasing treated radioactive water into the sea; Taiwan’s attorney general files an extraordinary appeal on behalf of a man on death row.

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JILP: Biden's International Law Restoration by USALI Faculty Director José Alvarez

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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).

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Colloquium: China’s Global Ambitions and U.S. Policy with CFR's Elizabeth Economy

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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.

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Conversation about Evidence Rules in the US and China

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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

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.

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 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.

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: 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.