Wednesday, Sept. 21, at 12:15 pm, in Lerner 402 at George Washington University Law School, 2000 H St. NW, Washington, DC.Here are the details:
China Law Prof Blog
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More on defamation law in China
The other day I posted about the concept of group defamation in China, noting that Chinese courts have upheld complaints in which members of a particular group sought damages or other legal remedies against those they believed had insulted…
Group defamation in Chinese law
Ten years ago (can it really have been that long?) I posted about defamation law in China, noting that one feature that differentiates it from defamation law in at least some other jurisdictions is that while on the one…
“Patriotic” Chinese companies warns that workers who buy iPhone 7 will be fired
Here’s the story from the South China Morning Post. What the company seems to have forgotten in its patriotic indignation is that China actually has some employment laws that forbid employers from firing employees simply on a whim –…
China-Philippines UNCLOS arbitration ruling: the documents
Here they are, courtesy of Andrew Erickson (spoiler alert: China lost).
Amnesty International seeks Research and Campaign Assistant for East Asia (Hong Kong-based, China-focused)
Here's the announcement: https://careers.amnesty.org/vacancy/research-and-campaigns-assistant-1571/1597/description/. The description notes that it's China-focused.
Julian Ku, “A Guide to Countering Chinese Government Spin on the Fairness of the South China Sea Arbitration Tribunal”
China to require government agencies and SOEs to hire lawyers and to listen to them
Here's the report from Xinhua. According to the report, China's central authorities has [sic] ordered the adoption of a legal counsel system at governments and Communist Party committees above the county-level as well as state-owned enterprises (SOE) before 2017, a…
IP vacancy at the USTR
See the post over at the China IPR blog for more details.
White Paper on Judicial Reform
Last March, the Supreme People's Court posted on its website an English version of its White Paper on Judicial Reform, but for some reason did not make the original Chinese version available online. I now have a scanned version…