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Chinese and Asian Law
Resources
D'Angelo Law Library
University of Chicago Law
School
February 2005
People's Republic of China
Research Contacts
Lyonette Louis-Jacques
Foreign and International Law Librarian
D'Angelo Law Library
(773)702-9612
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/law/
Lorna Y. Tang
Associate Law Librarian for Technical Services
D'Angelo Law Library
(773)702-9619
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/law/
Bill Alspaugh
Chinese Studies Librarian
Regenstein Library
(773)702-8436
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/easia/
The Chinalaw List (formerly the Chinese Law Net e-mail list (see also Walter Hutchen's Chinese securities law blog at http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/whutchens/blog.html)
http://hermes.gwu.edu/archives/chinalaw.html
Welcome to Chinalaw, an electronic discussion group
devoted to issues of modern Chinese law. While it is intended that the law of
the People's Republic of China will be the main focus, postings relating to
other Chinese jurisdictions or to Chinese legal history are also welcome. All
persons with an interest in Chinese law are welcome to subscribe. Current
subscribers — numbering 934 as of October 8, 2004 — include business people,
law professors, lawyers, and students from many countries.
Research Guides
Nongji Zhang, "Electronic Resources on the Law of the People's Republic of China" (as part of program F-6, A Current Appraisal of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Legal Research, 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Association Association of Law Libraries (AALL), Boston, Massachusetts)
http://aall.omnibooksonline.com/2004/papers%5C41_F-6%20-%20Zhang.pdf
http://aall.omnibooksonline.com/2004/TOC.htm
Chinese Legal Research at the University of Washington (William B. McCloy)
http://lib.law.washington.edu/eald/cres.pdf
(requires downloading plug-in to read Chinese characters)
Internet Chinese Legal Research Center (Wei Luo)
http://law.wustl.edu/Chinalaw/
(covers Mainland China (the People's Republic of China or PRC), Taiwan (the Republic of China), and Hong Kong); includes links to Chinese Law Resources on the Internet)
The Internet and Chinese Law Materials (Bick-har Yeung, East Asian Collection, University of Melbourne, Australia; A paper prepared for the 18th IALL Course of International Law Librarianship "Australasian Law and Librarianship", Old Treasury Building, Melbourne, Australia, 12-16 September 1999)
http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/asian/Internet-Law-Chi-Resources.html
Beyond the Border: The Chinese Legal Information System in Cyberspace (Joan Liu)
http://www.llrx.com/features/china2.htm
A Complete Research Guide to the Laws of the People's Republic of China (Wei Luo & Joan Liu)
http://www.llrx.com/features/prc.htm (lists the following English-language journals/periodicals; see also Joan Liu's Finding Chinese Law on the Internet):
Chinese Legal Research (UCLA Law Library)
http://www.lawlib.ucla.edu/china/china.html
Research Resources: China Law, News and Government Resources on the Web (Yale Law School)
http://www.law.yale.edu/library/research/china.html
Chinalaw Web (University of Maryland School of Law)
http://www.qis.net/chinalaw/index.html
Introduction to Chinese Legal System (isinolaw Research Centre)
http://www.isinolaw.com/jsp/CLSintro/CLS_Main_0.jsp?LangID=0
Guide to Law Online: China (Law Library of Congress)
http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/china.html
Internet Guide for Chinese Studies: Law (University of Heidelberg)
http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/iglaw.htm
China Law Center (Yale Law School)
People's Republic of China (Washburn University Law School)
http://www.washlaw.edu/forint/asia/china.html
Kara Phillips, "Selected Books and Journal Articles on Chinese Law -- The 2004 Year in Review"
http://www.abanet.org/intlaw/committees/regional_comparative/china/chinabibaba.doc
Josephine M.T. Khu, "Selected Bibliography of English-Language Materials on the Law of the People's Republic of China," 28 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 531-575 (1990)
http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/cjtl28&collection=journals&id=539
Joni J. Langevoort, "Chinese Law in English: A Selected Bibliography," 14 International Journal of Legal Information 111-154 (1986).
http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/ijli14&collection=journals&id=130
Mon Yin Lung, "Annotated Bibliography of Selected English-Language Literature on Chinese Law," 6 Legal Reference Services Quarterly 95-121 (1986)
KA1.L73 D'Angelo Law Library, Reference
Wei Luo, "How to Find the Law of the People's Republic of China: A Research Guide and Selective Annotated Bibliography," 88 Law Library Journal 402-426 (1996)
http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/llj88&collection=journals&id=404
Jeanette L. Pinard, "The People's Republic of China: A Bibliography of Selected English-Language Legal Materials," 3 China Law Reporter 46-143 (1985)
http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/china3&collection=journals&id=50
Thomas H. Reynolds & Arturo A. Flores, Foreign Law: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World
XXK38.R490 1989 D'Angelo Law Library, Reference
Databases
Chinalawinfo (database on LexisNexis containing selected PRC cases and legislation in English translation)
BBC Summary of
World Broadcasts and Monitoring Reports (in the Asia-Pacific Library, BBCSWB file on LexisNexis)(includes
selected Chinese laws in English translation)
World News
Connection (includes Chinese
laws in English translation)
Statutes
Doing Business in China: People's Republic of China (Freshfields ed.)
XXKNQ920.D652 D'Angelo Law Library
China Laws for Foreign Business =[Zhongguo dui wai jing ji fa gui hui bian]
(CCH Australia)
KNQ920 C47 John Marshall Law Library
(request via CLAS/ILL)
http://catalog.jmls.edu/search
Selected PRC Legal Provisions (Congressional-Executive Commission on China)
http://www.cecc.gov/
Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Fagui Huibian = Zhonghua Renmin
Gongheguo fa gui hui bian
XXKNQ12.C3 Regenstein, East Asian/CJK
Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Falü Huibian = Zhonghua Renmin
Gongheguo fa lü hui bian
XXKNQ12.C32 Regenstein, East Asian/CJK
Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo she wai fa gui hui bian, 1991-1992 / Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo guo wu yuan fa zhi ju bian = Laws and regulations of the People's Republic of China governing foreign-related matters / compiled by the Bureau of Legislative Affairs of the State Council of the People's Republic of China.
(1994)
XXKNQ3405 .A28 1994 Regenstein, East Asian/CJK
Cases
China Law Reports
XXKNQ19.A35C45 D'Angelo Law Library
(published 1991-1994)
Ren min fa yuan an li xuan
(compilation of select Supreme People's Court cases)
XXKNQ19.A3 Regenstein, East Asian/CJK
(incomplete holdings)
Zhonghua renmin gongheguo zuigao renmin fayuan gonbao (gazette of the
Supreme People's Court of the PRC)
XKNQ18.C48 Regenstein, East Asian/CJK
ChinaCourt.org ("first in court news and legal information"; sponsored by the Supreme People's Court of the PRC; includes English-language biographical information on the justices, judicial news, People's Court Daily, PRC laws and regulations, and information on the judicial system)
Asian Law Resources
Researching Asian Legal Systems (Georgetown University Law Library)
http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/intl/guides/asian/
China, Japan, Korea (New York University Law Library)
http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/country.html
Asian Law Centre (University of Melbourne, Australia)
http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/alc/
Journal of Asian Law (Columbia University)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/asiaweb/JAL004.htm
East Asian Law Department (University of Washington School of Law, Gallagher Law Library)
http://lib.law.washington.edu/eald/eald.html
Asian Law Abstracts (Legal Scholarship Network (LSN), Social Science Research Network (SSRN); edited by Donald Clarke and Veronica Taylor; abstracts are sent via e-mail to subscribers and also archived):
"Asian Law Abstracts will publish abstracts of working papers, forthcoming articles, and recently published articles related to Asian law. "Asian law" is to be understood as focusing on, but not limited to, the laws of Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, North Korea, the People's Republic of China, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, and issues that cover more than the law of a single Asian nation, as well as legal developments of broad general interest that occur in particular Asian countries. The areas covered include competition law, administrative law, private law, public and constitutional law, judicial systems (especially areas of judicial co-operation), law and development, legal procedure, and legal philosophy and legal theory as they apply to current developments in Asia."
http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/lsn_asian-law.html
East Asia Department (University of Chicago Library)
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/easia/
Curator for the Collection Yuan Zhou yzhou3@uchicago.edu (773)702-8436