Online newspaper published by the Chinese Supreme People's Court and made freely available in English and Chinese. Articles are categorised by subject including 'judicial news' which covers legal news stories and judicial interpretations, 'laws and regulations' which covers new laws and changes to the law and general news stories. Articles are arranged in date order with the most recent stories listed first.
Chinalawinfo is a subscription database providing Chinese legal information and materials translated into English. The service has been developed by the Legal Information Center at the Peking University Law School. Parts of the website can be accessed freely including Basic Laws which are laws adopted by the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee prior to January 1, 2006. An outline of the Chinese legal system, white papers and legal news stories are also made freely available.
An online guide to finding Chinese judicial information written by Zhai Jianxiong who is an associate research librarian in law at the National Library of China. The guide was published in the features section of LLRX.com in October 2002. The article gives an overview to the judicial structure in China and looks at sources of judicial information including printed and online materials.
The Great Britain-China Centre exists to promote understanding between Britain and China, focusing in particular on legal and judicial reform. The website has information on projects dealing with human rights reporting, the police, judicial studies training and the death penalty. The Centre's journal, the China Review, is available on the site from 2006 onwards.
An online journal developed by the William S. Richardson Law School at the University of Hawaii at Monoa. The journal is published twice a year and is available from the inaugural edition, February 2000, onwards. It focuses on a range of jurisdictions, including China, Japan, Korea, the United States and the Pacific and Southeast Asian regions generally.
Website of China Patent Agent (H.K.) a firm of patent and trademark attorneys established in 1984 as a quasi government entity to provide legal services for overseas clients. The site provides information on Chinese patent laws which can be downloaded from the site in English. The laws cover patents, trademarks, copyright, layout design of integrated circuits, new plant varieties and cyber law (domain name disputes). There are also international treaties, case summaries, a selection of FAQs and forms to download. The site can be viewed in English, German, Japanese and Chinese.
The US-Asia Law Institute is based at New York University School of Law. The site includes details of current research programmes, with links to articles.
Blog focusing on Chinese law edited by Donald Clarke of George Washington University Law School and other specialists in Chinese law and related affairs. It covers Chinese legal developments, conferences, publications and research resources and has an archive extending back to 2005. The site has links to a set of research guides on Chinese law.
Annotated resource guide to Chinese legal materials, by the Lillian Goldman Library at Yale Law School. Gives links to Chinese law research guides, official websites and other sites; also lists books, databases and journals for Chinese law research. Some of the resources listed require a subscription and some are in Chinese only.
Website providing the Gazette for 1999 to 2003. For the years 2001-2003 there are also indexes. The site can be viewed in English and Chinese.
