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Hong Kong high court rules transgender woman can marry
May 13, 2013 by Benjamin Minegar
Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal ruled Monday that a law prohibiting a transgender woman from marrying her boyfriend was invalid under the Chinese constitution. The law had been interpreted to hold that only a person's gender at birth could be considered for the purposes of marriage, which is.... [more]
China sentences former government official to life in prison for accepting bribes
May 4, 2013 by Addison Morris
China's Nanjing Intermediate People's Court issued a life sentence on Saturday to Huang Sheng, the former provincial deputy governor of Shandong Province, for accepting almost $2 million in bribes from 21 organizations and numerous individuals between 1998 and 2011. In addition to life.... [more]
US trade commission rules for Apple in Motorola patent dispute
April 24, 2013 by Blake Lynch
The US International Trade Commission (USITC) ruled Monday that Apple did not infringe a Motorola patent covering proximity sensors. The USITC concluded that the concept at issue was too obvious to merit patent protection. Although Apple is based in the US, it outsources production of its mobile.... [more]
National People's Congress: China's New Leadership Change and Hukou Policy Reform
April 18, 2013 by Fangxing Li
JURIST Guest Columnist Qiwei Chen, an LL.M. candidate from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2013, discusses China's new leaders election and the current disputes on hukou, the household registration system...On March 17, 2013, the National People's Congress (NPC), the highest.... [more]
Lawyers urge China court to explain detention of Falun Gong defender
April 5, 2013 by Max Slater
A group of prominent Chinese lawyers signed a letter on Friday calling on the Jinjiang People's Court to explain why it detained a lawyer who defended the Falun Gong, which is banned in China. An online statement from the court said that Wang Quanzhang, a lawyer representing Falun Gong.... [more]
China authorities arrest brother-in-law of Nobel winner Liu Xiaobo
March 29, 2013 by Max Slater
Police in China arrested and detained the brother-in-law of Nobel Peace Prize winner and democracy activist Liu Xiaobo on Friday on charges of fraud. Liu Hui was formally charged two weeks ago in a real estate dispute. Liu Hui's arrest may be retaliation for allegedly subversive activities by the.... [more]
China created special intellectual property court [this day at law]
March 10, 2013 by Sarah Steers
On March 10, 2006, China confirmed during the National People's Congress, an annual parliamentary meeting, that it had established a Judicial Court of Intellectual Property in conjunction with strengthened copyright laws. These changes followed accusations from various countries, including the US,.... [more]
Japan continues to suffer export restrictions, citizen protests two years after Fukushima
March 9, 2013 by Matthew Pomy
Almost two years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster Japanese officials report that 44 countries still ban or limit food imports from Japan, as thousands of the nation's citizens gathered on Saturday in ongoing anti-nuclear demonstrations around the country. China and South Korea, both.... [more]
China court upheld US geologist's espionage conviction [this day at law]
February 18, 2013 by Sarah Steers
On February 18, 2011, a Chinese court of appeals upheld the conviction of US geologist Xue Feng on charges of industrial espionage. Feng's conviction emphasized US concerns over Chinese humanitarian efforts and the independence of China's judiciary. Feng had been originally convicted on July 5,.... [more]
China court sentences Tibetans for encouraging self-immolation
January 31, 2013 by Daniel Mullen
A Chinese court has sentenced two Tibetans for inciting self-immolation according to a Thursday report from Xinhua, China's state news agency. The two men were charged with intentional homicide after inciting and coercing eight people to self-immolate, three of whom ultimately died. Lorang.... [more]
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