Recent Developments in Chinese Administrative Procedure Reform

Neysun Mahboubi, Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, and Lecturer-in-Law, University of Pennsylvania; Gwennan Manseau, Senior Counsel on China issues, Office of the Chief Counsel for International Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce 

Under the rubric of yifa xingzheng ("administering the country according to law"), efforts towards greater regularization and accountability of administrative decisionmaking in China have appeared to gain …

The Future of 'Rights Defense' Lawyering in China

Dr. Teng Biao, Visiting Fellow, US-Asia Law Institute, NYU Law School; Co-founder, The Open Constitution Initiative

Over the past 15 years, there has emerged in China a community of self-identified "rights defense" (weiquan) lawyers, akin to "cause lawyers" in the United States, who select cases and frame legal advocacy…

Chinese Legal Reform after the CCP's Fourth Plenum

Wang Zhenmin, Professor and former Dean, Tsinghua University Law School

More than a year ago, the Fourth Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party’s 18th Central Committee signaled unprecedented emphasis on “the rule of law” and issued key policy documents to support legal…

Reporting from China

2015-2016 CSCC Annual Public Lecture

David Barboza, Shanghai Bureau Chief. The New York Times

Pulitzer Prize winner David Barboza will share his insights and experiences over the past decade reporting from China.

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China's Authoritarian Legality

Mary Gallagher, Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of the Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan

Over the past decade the Chinese government has passed some of the most protective labor and employment laws in the world and begun a massive urbanization scheme allowing rural migrant workers to gain urban residency…

Income and Wealth Inequality in China

Yu Xie, Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Sociology and PIIRS, Princeton University

In this presentation, Professor Xie reviews results from his research program on income and wealth inequality in contemporary China, drawing on newly available survey data collected by several Chinese university…

Post-socialist urban marriages: (Re)verticalization of family loyalties in urban Shanghai

Deborah Davis, Professor of Sociology, Yale University

Reading: Davis, Deborah S. (2014). "…

Renminbi internationalization—and regulation—and what it means for Western financial markets

Chris Brummer,  Professor and Director, Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown University

Chris Brummer is a visiting professor at Penn Law this semester where he teaches a course on international financial regulation.  He is also the Director of the Institute of International Economic…

Rural-urban Migration and the Cognitive and Emotional Development of Middle Schoolers in China

Lingxin Hao, Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University

China’s unprecedented rural-urban migration adds profound complications to the entrenched rural-urban spatial inequality in the cognitive and emotional development of middle schoolers.…

Are the Masses Critical?

Influence of Online Public Comments on Legislation in China

Shuhao FanCandidate for B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and French Studies    University of Pennsylvania | Class of 2016

Without free elections and meaningful voting, China’s authoritarian legislature has traditionally been viewed as irresponsive to its citizens. Surprisingly, the recently emerged online public comment procedure,…