China The Cross-Strait #10YearChallenge January 23, 2019 0 Written by Margaret Lewis. What a difference a decade makes. Pandas are not the focus of the #10YearChallenge, in part perhaps because a 5-year-old panda…
China How are European NGOs coping under China’s Overseas NGO Law? January 23, 2018 0 Written by Bertram Lang. Considering the initial outcry surrounding both the adoption and entry into force of the Chinese Foreign NGO law, Europe has become surprisingly quiet about this…
China Ruling the Country by Red-letterhead Documents? September 19, 2017 0 Written by George G. Chen and Matthias Stepan. The “intra-Party rules and regulations” of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are taking on a preeminent role…
China A new torture in China August 10, 2017 5 Written by Eva Pils. ‘In China, we say that for a person meditating in a cave, a day passes as though it were a thousand…
China Women Judges in Post-Mao China – How much do we know? July 21, 2017 2 Written by Anqi Shen. Who are women judges in China? What do they do? What are their roles and positions in the Chinese judicial profession?…
China The Death Penalty in China May 9, 2016 0 Written by Hong Lu. As of 2015, approximately 70% of the countries around the globe (140 out of 198) had abolished the death penalty in…
Law and Justice The rise of rule by fear February 15, 2016 0 Written by Eva Pils. In the course of my research on Chinese human rights lawyers over the past several years, I got to hear a…
Law and Justice A Review of China’s Record on Torture February 9, 2016 0 Written by Margaret Lewis. When visiting Washington DC in November 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping stated that “China has made enormous progress in human rights.…
Law and Justice China’s Study-Work School February 8, 2016 0 Written by Anqi Shen. While the Chinese criminal justice system maintains punitive, youth justice in China is an exception, operating on the core principles of…