China, like most other civil law countries, does not have a discrete evidence code. Rather,
Chinese evidence rules are currently scattered among various procedural codes. Since the …

The exercise by China's National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) of its
power to interpret the Basic Law in June 1999 upon the request of the Hong Kong Special …

This article explores the Recordation and Review Mechanisms anchored in art 17 (2) and 17
(3) of the Basic Law. These mechanisms provide for the obligation of Hong Kong to report …

Unlike Russia, where Gorbachev launched Glasnos (openness) political reforms in the late
1980's, China was caught in the midst of a conservative backlash, when Deng Xiaoping …

This chapter answers that question by examining the major turning points in Chinese legal
theory and legal practices since the 1990s, when China became a global economic and …

December 2018 was a noisy month in Hungarian politics. Opposition MPs tried to affect the
fate of several bills in the parliamentary debate and then by obstruction. The best known bill …

An increasing number of academics, in and outside China, have expressed unprecedented
pessimism or dismissiveness regarding China's legal reforms under the leadership of Xi …

The common courts provision is a key clause with a debate among different countries in the
negotiation of the Draft Hague Judgment Convention. Traditionally, the courts are affiliated …