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June 6, 2024
Volume 4, Number 9
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Legal Dialogue, Chinese Style

Legal scholars in China generally refrain from criticizing official policies in public. Qin (Sky) Ma writes that scholars’ response to the feared shutdown of the China Judgments Online (中国裁判文书网) at the end of 2023 was a noteworthy deviation from the norm. It showed that the space for critical discourse, though constrained, is not entirely closed and that strategic engagement by scholars can have impact. 

February 22, 2024
Volume 4, Number 8
K W
Feminization of Poverty and Women's Leadership

Poverty is often the face of a woman. Rangita de Silva de Alwis, a member of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, hopes that this year’s meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women will help make women the face of anti-poverty solutions.

May 22, 2023
Volume 3, Number 24
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The Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act: ...

Tamar Groswald Ozery argues that risks to investors may actually be worsened by US enforcement of the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, which was enacted in the name of investor protection. Ozery describes the HFCA as part of a geopolitical agenda of decoupling, but says it is backfiring by enhancing the Chinese government’s control over Chinese issuers.

March 20, 2023
Volume 3, Number 20
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The High Price of Lying in US-China Relations

Following the recent Chinese balloon incident, both Washington and Beijing would do well to recall lessons from a failed CIA espionage mission in China 70 years ago, says Jerome A. Cohen. US refusal to acknowledge the CIA’s role resulted in its own agent, John T. Downey, spending almost 21 years in a Chinese prison. The most obvious lesson: how counterproductive it is for governments to engage in lying.

March 7, 2023
Volume 3, Number 19
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The Future of CEDAW

Rangita de Silva de Alwis, who joined the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in January 2023, shares her vision for future development of the jurisprudence of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

Alexis Sanborn
December 17, 2020
Volume 1, Number 7

A Valentine Present for Japanese Same-Sex Couples

Alexis Sanborn
December 17, 2020
Volume 1, Number 7

Same-sex marriage may not be achievable unless more Japanese LGB individuals overcome the social taboo and come out
by Frank Upham

Tagged: Frank Upham, LGBTQ rights, Japan

Alexis Sanborn
December 16, 2020
Volume 1, Issue 8

Why China Should Take Japan to the ICJ: A Response

Alexis Sanborn
December 16, 2020
Volume 1, Issue 8

By Zhang Haiwen. A response to the December 3, 2020, USALI Perspectives essay by Shinya Murase entitled Why China Should Take Japan to the ICJ.

Tagged: Senkaku Islands Dispute, Zhang Haiwen

Alexis Sanborn
December 3, 2020
Volume 1, Number 6

Why China Should Take Japan to the ICJ

Alexis Sanborn
December 3, 2020
Volume 1, Number 6

If the Court Awards the Senkakus to China, Japan Will Comply
by Shinya Murase

Tagged: Shinya Murase, Senkaku Islands Dispute

Alexis Sanborn
November 23, 2020
Volume 1, Number 5

Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law

Alexis Sanborn
November 23, 2020
Volume 1, Number 5

This special issue of USALI Perspectives is an excerpt from the recently published book of the same name.
By Michael C. Davis

Tagged: Michael C. Davis

Alexis Sanborn
November 19, 2020
Volume 1, Number 4

A Primer on Hong Kong’s National Security Law

Alexis Sanborn
November 19, 2020
Volume 1, Number 4

The first in an occasional series of essays about the law’s impact on Hong Kong. By Carole J. Petersen

Tagged: Carole J. Peterson, National Security Law, Hong Kong

Alexis Sanborn
November 13, 2020
Volume 1, Number 3

What Will President Biden Mean for US-China Relations?

Alexis Sanborn
November 13, 2020
Volume 1, Number 3

SPECIAL ISSUE
The Biden administration will treat China as hostile power/strategic competitor/ally as needed to advance US goals.
By José E. Alvarez

Tagged: US-China Relations, Climate Change, José E. Alvarez

Alexis Sanborn
November 5, 2020
Volume 1, Number 2

Taking a Fresh Look at the Ghosn Case

Alexis Sanborn
November 5, 2020
Volume 1, Number 2

Much of the commentary compares the wrong things. Here is what we should be looking at.
By Bruce Aronson

Tagged: Bruce Aronson, Japan, Criminal Law, Carlos Ghosn

Alexis Sanborn
October 22, 2020
Volume 1, Number 1

Do Trump and Xi Really Differ on the WHO?

Alexis Sanborn
October 22, 2020
Volume 1, Number 1

Neither is willing to empower the WHO to intrude more forcefully into states’ domestic affairs – as it must to protect global public health.
By José E. Alvarez

Tagged: International Organizations, World Health Organization, José E. Alvarez

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