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Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights

This brief adopts a neo-institutional approach to derive some generalizations about how China’s policies are enforced, why enforcement remains such a problem, and what foreign...

Recent Policy Changes in China’s Real Estate Sector

The reform of the urban housing system, begun in the late 1980s, has resulted in a general improvement in accommodation for most of the urban population in China.

The Making of China’s Corporate Bankruptcy Law

For the past 20 years, China has embarked on a multi-track programme of reforms to build a bankruptcy system.

Competition Policy and Law

Competition policy and law, appropriately implemented and enforced, are essential to the optimal functioning of a market-orientated economy.

Development of a Legal and Policy Framework on Competition

Different approaches are needed to address three different types of competition problems. 

Labour Law: Trends and Practices in China

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has gone through a period of staggering economic growth, unprecedented in world history, averaging nine per cent over the past two decades...

Courts as Legislators: Supreme People’s Court Interpretations and Procedural Reforms

Courts in China today often act like legislative bodies, making law by issuing interpretations of laws that are binding on the courts.

The Impact of the World Trade Organization on the Chinese Legal System

It is still early days to appreciate fully the effects of China’s World Trade Organization (WTO) accession in 2001.

Regulating Enterprise: The Regulatory Impact on Doing Business in China

An investigation into the impact of regulatory reform on business in China.

Congress and the Supreme Court in a Partisan Era

There are significant lessons to be learned about relations between the Court and Congress from this analysis of the past dozen years.

Report: Democracy, the Courts, and the Making of Public Policy

Report and critical analysis of the inaugural workshop in our 'Courts and the Making of Public Policy' programme

Judging Judges

The principle of independence of the judiciary, while fundamental to a society based on the rule of law, is sometimes used to preclude the evaluation of courts.

Democracy, the Courts and the Making of Public Policy

Quite where the boundaries of justifiable judicial social policymaking lie will depend on one’s own understanding of the nature and value of democracy.

Dishonest Corporatism and Judicial Review

What role could judicial review play in situations of dishonest corporatism?

Russia and China: a Comparative Perspective on the Post-Communist Transition

This investigative comparison of the post-communist transitions of Russia and China attempts to assess why China’s growth has outstripped that of Russia, and whether Russia’s...

Populism, Courts and the Rule of Law

The rise of populism in Eastern Europe has had a significant effect on the rule of law, and the reaction of the judiciary to the changing political environment has been...

The Conflict between Government and the Judges

Conflict between the judges and government is built into the very concept of the judicial protection of human rights.

Affirmative Action

The 1960s was a decade of racial progress in the US, but also of anger that not more was achieved.

Courts and Democracy: The Production and Reproduction of Constitutional Conflict

A brief foray into comparative and transnational law finds the debate about abortion in courts, legislatures, and intergovernmental bodies around the world. 

China: Suffering from Growth Pains or Doomed to Stagnation?

This brief presents an alternative view to Minxin Pei, arguing that while China faces daunting challenges, it has also undertaken significant institutional reforms.

Are China’s Legal Reforms Stalled?

This brief advances two main theses. Firstly, that the perception that China’s legal system deteriorated between 1998 and 2004 is incorrect.

The Chinese Banking Sector

As Minxin Pei has pointed out, senior Chinese leaders remain determined to maintain control over China’s massive banking sector, using it to accomplish a host of policy and...

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