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[81] US-China joint statement
calls for 'legal experts dialogue'
The US-China Joint Statement released on Nov. 17th contains the following language (emphasis added):
The United States and China underlined that each country and its people have the right to choose their own path, and all countries should respect each other’s choice of a development model. Both sides recognized that the United States and China have differences on the issue of human rights. Addressing these differences in the spirit of equality and mutual respect, as well as promoting and protecting human rights consistent with interna
[80] Job openings at the
CECC
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China has three openings, two of which are for analysts: candidates who have a background or strong interest in (a) criminal procedure, courts, police, and prisons, or (b) labor issues and civil society. It's also seeking a press secretary/external relations coordinator. The full announcements are below. Please note two things:
- The deadline is December 15, 2009.
- I am told unofficially that the analysts (i.e., the professional staff members advertised for below) who are happiest and most successful at the CECC tend to be studious researchers interested in academic work, as opposed to those who may want to use
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[79] New CSRC rule on
avoidance
I've recently started following
(and recommend) the Wall Street Journal's China Real Time
Report blog. The other day it
reported on a new rule of avoidance promulgated by the China
Securities Regulatory Commission. Officials who leave the CSRC
cannot work for regulated parties for a period of three years
(senior officials) or two years (others) (Chinese
source
[78] Wentong Zheng on China's
Antimonopoly Law
Wentong Zheng of SUNY Buffalo Law School is doing a series of posts on China's Antimonopoly Law over at the Antitrust and Competition Policy Blog. Here's what he's done so far:
[77] A move toward formal
equality for rural residents
Two years ago I blogged about the gerrymandered National People's Congress ('gerrymandered' is not really the right word, but what's done is done) in which, by formal legislative design, there are four times as many delegates from urban areas as from rural areas relative to population. (I am deliberately not using terms such as 'representation', since that word assumes that the NPC is actually a representative body, an issue I don't want to get into here.) Although seeing this as a problem and fixing it won't make China a democracy, it seems to me to be a very important - and welcome - symbolic ste
Here's the first-person report from the Danwei blog. According to the post, the writer spent seven months in a Beijing detention center. His jailmates included such people as Huang Guangyu, the CEO of Gome who is now under investigation for various suspected crimes. We are not told why the writer was there, but all this, plus his description of the jail regime, make it pretty clear that this is not an account of a regular criminal sentence of reform through labor. It may be that the writer was under investigation for something; it may be that he was
[75] The trial of Chen
Shui-bian
The US-Asia Law Institute at NYU Law School recently sponsored a very good discussion of this case; here's the link to the videos.
[74] Chinese translation of
the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Who knows? This might be useful to someone, somewhere (perhaps in explaining why you can't give a gift, even though personally you'd really love to), so here it is, courtesy of the US Department of Commerce.
[73] Tsinghua China Law
Review: call for submissions
I have received the following announcement, which may be of interest to readers. (I confess I am puzzled by their claim to be 'the first law journal in China'.) (Oct. 20 update: I am informed that they meant to say, 'the first student-run law journal in China'.)
[72] Hubei regulations on the
privacy of minors
There has recently been a minor
tempest over regulations passed by the Hubei Provincial People's
Congress Standing Committee on July 31, 2009. The provincial
regulations implement the
One provision that excited a lot of comment was the rule supposedly forbidding parents from seeing the text messages of their children. (The headline of this report, for example, is 'Hubei legislation forbidding parents from che
