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YCW Conversation - Legal Reform in China
Jeremy Daum is a Senior Fellow of The China Law Center, currently based in Beijing, and an American attorney with experience in civil rights and employment discrimination litigation. Mr. Daum recently contributed to a second installment of the Young China Watchers’ Conversation series. The discussion focused on the outcomes of China’s 18th Party Congress Fourth Plenum meeting on the Rule of Law, including the future state of judicial independence. Read it here.
Brookings - Women, sexuality, and social change in China
Jamie Horsley speaks on protecting the legal rights of women and LGBTQ populations in China at the Brookings on April 3, 2015.
Professor Gewirtz Named to Foreign Policy Magazine’s Pacific Power Index
Paul Gewirtz, Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law and Director of The China Center at Yale Law School, has been named to Foreign Policy magazine’s Pacific Power Index, a list of “50 people shaping the future of the U.S.-China relationship.”
“China’s Leaders Endorse Disclosure as the ‘Norm’ - Jamie P. Horsley
Jamie P. Horsley is a Senior Research Scholar and Executive Director of The China Law Center.
China’s rulers commit to the (socialist) rule of law - Jamie P. Horsley
Jamie Horsley is a Senior Research Scholar and Executive Director of The China Law Center.
Robert Williams and Jamie Horsley Hold Events on Food Safety Risk Communication
As part of the China Law Center’s ongoing work in regulatory reform and food safety governance, we co-sponsored a series of workshops in Beijing and Shenzhen the week of May 12 on the topic of food safety risk communication, focusing on the need for improved transparency, public participation and effective mechanisms of interaction between the government and the public.
China to enhance economic cooperation with U.S.
BEIJING, March 29 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang on Saturday vowed to strengthen communication, coordination and cooperation with the United States in economic and trade areas.
Jamie Horsley in Workshops Promoting Improved Government Information Disclosure in China
Six years after China’s first nationwide freedom of information statute went into force, The China Law Center remains engaged in promoting increased freedom of information in China, working with government partners, academics and nongovernmental organizations to support ever greater use and more effective implementation of the State Council Open Government Information (OGI) Regulations. The Center’s Executive Director Jamie Horsley held a series of roundtables on March 25-26 in Beijing concerning issues arising under and revision of the OGI Regulations and a scholars draft of a more...
China Law Center Partner Publishes New Book on Juvenile Justice System
The Yale China Law Center is pleased to announce the publication of a new book, Research on the Juvenile Judicial System, edited by our longstanding collaborator, Judge YANG Feixue (杨飞雪), with the assistance of our Center.
Jamie Horsley and Robert Williams Hold Workshop with China’s Supreme People’s Court on Administrative Guiding Cases
The China Law Center co-sponsored a workshop on March 22 in Hangzhou with the SPC Administrative Tribunal and Professor Zheng Chunyan of Zhejiang University’s Guanghua Law School to bring together U.S. and Chinese judges and legal scholars to promote improvement and effective implementation of the SPC’s “guiding” cases system, focusing on administrative cases involving citizen-state disputes.