U.S. editors Ankit Panda and Zachary Keck are joined by Shannon Tiezzi to discuss China's fourth plenum. Zhou Yongkang's case ties in with Xi Jinping's larger vision for the rule of law in China.

On the same day that Bo Xilai, China’s infamous disgraced politician, was formally charged with corruption, embezzlement and abuse of power, a clutch of Chinese activists was briefly detained at a ...

Last spring, while wandering the stacks at Peking University’s law library, I stumbled across an unusual book on China’s property law. Authored by the famous law professor S. Francis Liu and two of ...

In classical Chinese law, cruelty disrupted cosmic order and sentience carried moral weight. Under Xi Jinping, legality has been restructured to preempt such claims entirely. This third essay in the ...

China is enhancing its maritime legal framework and adjudication approach to support the high-quality development of its ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Jerome A. Cohen was an academic and legal pioneer who almost single-handedly created the field of Chinese legal studies in the United States ...

China has officially entered the legal AI arms race. Last Friday, researchers unveiled the “Xiao Baogong Legal Content Model,” a specialized artificial intelligence system that’s been fed an ...

Think tanks and universities have helped expose problematic Chinese business practices. Now, those businesses are accusing them of defamation. By David McCabe and Tripp Mickle David McCabe reported ...

There are mounting concerns over the well-being and whereabouts of Zhang Zhan, the former lawyer-turned-citizen-journalist whose reporting from Wuhan in early 2020 was essential to lifting the lid on ...