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The number of death sentences handed down by Chinese courts in the first five months of 2007 has decreased following the implementation of reforms which require all death sentences to receive the approval of the Supreme People's...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that victims of forced abortions are "statutorily entitled" to prevent their removal from the United States by requesting asylum under Sec. 208 of the Immigration and...

Zi Zhi Tang v. Alberto R. Gonzales, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, June 6, 2007 . Read the full text of...

Three relatives of a Chinese-American engineer convicted earlier this year of conspiring to smuggle sensitive naval intelligence data to China have pleaded guilty to related charges as part of a plea...

Nine suspects were arrested and charged Monday in the US Eastern District of California for allegedly plotting the violent overthrow of the Laotian government. The suspects, including General Vang Pao, a former general in the Royal...

China's new "Enterprise Bankruptcy" law came into effect Friday, officially introducing broad sweeping regulations governing the resolution of outstanding business debts for the first time in China , which is gradually amending its laws to address the...

Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai: When the Indian Constitution was adopted in 1949, Indians had the fundamental right to property. Since then, this right has pestered the government. It was chipped away and chipped away until it...

Zhao Bingzhi, president of the criminal law research committee of the China Law Society told China Daily Thursday that China is preparing to enact anti-terrorism legislation , which Zhao described as a "separate...

Approximately 30 Chinese demonstrators carrying banners massed outside the Japanese embassy in Beijing Thursday, protesting a April 27 court ruling by the Supreme Court of Japan denying compensation claims made by five Chinese wartime slave...

US immigration courts are inconsistent in granting asylum to applicants, according to a new study by three law professors to be published in the Stanford Law Review. The professors found that factors that contributed to the outcome of...