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Introduction to Chinese Law

This guide includes links to many of the best websites for finding information about the laws and legal system of the People's Republic of China (PRC). It also includes links to websites covering China's business, political & legal culture.

All Hastings faculty and students have access to both iSinolaw* and LawInfoChina**.
*Certain search features don't work in iSinolaw with Firefox.
**For Hastings access to LawInfoChina, click on the "View Previous versions" link at the top of the screen.

These two subscription databases provide excellent access to Chinese laws and regulations. Each includes the Chinese language version of the law and useful English translations. With these two subscription sources and several free Chinese law databases, one can have reasonable confidence that they have the most relevant laws and regulations available on a specific topic.

This research guide also includes information about how to find books and articles on Chinese legal issues.

If you have any questions on your research stop by the Reference Desk and ask a Librarian, or e-mail , Int'l & Foreign Law Librarian and make an appointment to discuss your research.

Find A Topic

Legal News & Current Awareness

  • China Law Digest is a bilingual, monthly online resource detailing the latest news and developments on contemporary Chinese law and legal scholarship. The purpose of this website is to offer the latest news on legal developments and judicial reform to domestic and foreign subscribers interested in Chinese legal issues. UC Hastings has a subscription to this digest; Hastings students and faculty should contact the Reference Desk to get the password.
  • BNA International Trade Reporter - Information about this subscription database is included below
  • Jun He Law Offices: Legal Updates - List and summary of newly promulgated laws, regulations and judicial interpretations.
  • China.org - Broad access to up-to-date news about China, with searchable texts of government position papers and a wealth of basic information about Chinese history, politics, economics, and culture. It is also one of the major authorized government portal sites in China and publishes a well-organized directory to search Chinese government agencies and to locate Chinese laws.
  • China Today - A China information portal focusing on the Chinese law and justice system.

English Language Chinese Law Blogs

  • All Chinese Law Blogs - Aggregated feed of most of the Chinese law blogs listed below. You can view it at the site, or sign up for an RSS feed.
  • Asia Legal Blog - published by the Cypress Recruiting Group, and edited by Ash Kalb. Lists jobs at Asian law firms.
  • Chinese Law Prof Blog - By Donald C. Clarke, Professor of Law, George Washington University Law. Prof. Clarke is also involved in the useful email list now called The Chinalaw List (formerly the Chinese Law Net).
  • China Blawg - Written by Chinese and Foreign professionals at Lehman, Lee & Xu, China's third largest, corporate commercial law firm.
  • China Esquire - By UC Hastings Alumnus, San Francisco based Thomas Chow, who practices in international business transactions, corporate, exempt organizations and intellectual property law. Blog covers Chinese law, business, and non-profits.
  • Chinese Law and Politics Blog - By Carl Minzner Associate Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis, School of Law.
  • China Environmental Law Blog - By Charlie McElwee, International energy & environmental lawyer based in Shanghai.
  • IP DRAGON - Established by Danny Friedmann in 2005 to share information about intellectual property in China to make it more transparent.
  • China-U.S. Trade Law Insight and commentary on active trade disputes between the U.S. and China - Hosted by Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • China Legal Blog - Aggregated China Law Information. This allows you to look at several china law blogs at once.
  • China Law Blog China Law for Business - By U.S. based international lawyer Dan Harris and Steve Dickinson, an international lawyer based in China. Both members of Harris & Moure, pllc, a boutique International Law Firm.

Other China News

China Law & News Podcasts

Find Books

Finding Chinese Law Books at Hastings

If you can find a few good books covering your topic, it can make your research much easier. Hastings has a good collection of books on Chinese law. For an even wider selection of available books, search the sources below to see if other libraries have books you can borrow through inter-library loan.

To find books at Hastings use the new Encore catalog or the Classic catalog, Encore allows you to do a quick one-box search to find books at Hastings and articles available through Hein-Online. The advanced search feature allows more complex title, author and subject searching.

Find Books at Hastings:

Course Reserve lists

Browsing For Books

If you find a book that looks interesting, and you are not on campus, click on the call number to browse titles on the shelf nearby. Of course, if you are on campus, browsing the shelves is a great way to find relevant books. Most of the Chinese Law books are on the 6th floor in the KNX call number range.

Borrow Books Through Inter-Library loan

For a wider selection of available books, search to see if other libraries have books you can borrow through inter-library loan. If the book you want is not in the Hastings Library, or you would like to locate other books on your topic, use FirstSearch, a database containing information about books from most of the libraries in the English-speaking world. Search the WorldCat database to find book; click on the ILL icon at the top of the page to request the book.

Google Books

Use Google Books to search a wide variety of books. You may have an option to view the contents of the book, but often online access is very limited.

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Find Articles

Finding Articles in Lexis, Westlaw & Hein Online

Sometimes law review articles can be one of the best places to find current research on your topic. Lexis, Westlaw, Legal Scholarship Network & Hein Online are all good sources for law journal articles.

Although there is a lot of overlap on Lexis and Westlaw, you will find some articles unique to one database or the other. By searching both Lexis & Westlaw you will cover most of the law review articles written since the mid-1990s. If you have a citation to an law review article that is not on Westlaw or Lexis (and is older than the last year or two), you will probably be able to print a PDF version of the article from Hein Online. For working papers, unpublished research, and recently published articles the Legal Scholarship Network is a good resource.

Search English Language China Law Journals on HeinOnline

Chinese Law Journals at UC Hastings (Print)

Chinese Law Journals - To find the list of the Chinese law journals available in print at Hastings, follow this link to a subject search of Law -- China -- Periodicals in the UC Hastings catalog.

List of English Language Chinese Legal Journals provided by George Washington University Law School, with links to the publisher's websites.

Google Scholar

You can search a large number of law and social science journals using Google Scholar. Oftentimes, you can get access to the full-text, but not always.

Search Legal Periodicals Indexes

If you are having difficulty finding relevant articles, you can search the following periodical indexes. These searches are only for the title or abstract of the article, these are NOT FULL-TEXT searches.

About Legal Periodical Indexes

Unlike Lexis and Westlaw full-text law review databases, legal periodical indexes include almost every U.S. law review article from 1980 to present. Therefore, one advantage to searching these indexes is that it allows you to search more journal articles. Another advantage is when you receive too many irrelevant results from your full-text searches. If this is the case, an index search may give you better results since you are not searching the full-text of each article. Also, if you are interested in historical research, articles published between 1918 and 1980 are only searchable using an index. Select "Legal Periodicals Retro" when searching the Index to Legal Periodicals & Books for these older articles.

What to Do After Finding An Article In An Index Or Bibliography

If you have found an article in an index or mentioned in a bibliography, and would like to know where you can access a full-text version, start with Hastings Law Library's e-journal finder. You can also search for the journal title in the Library Catalog, Lexis, or Westlaw.

San Francisco Public Library Non-Law Journals

If an article you have found is not in a law-related journal, and not in one of the non-law online resources at Hastings, you may want to search the online databases collection at the San Francisco Public Library. You can check to see if the journal issue you want is accessible from one of the databases provided by the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL), by searching their Periodical Finder. Or you can search through the various SFPL journal indexes. Any resident of California may apply for a SFPL Library card to get online full-text access.

Retrieve Articles Using Inter-Library Loan

If you are unable to find the article using UC Hastings and SFPL resources, you can search for an article using FirstSearch. Search the ArticleFirst and/or ECO databases, and then click on the ILL icon at the top of the page to request the article.

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Finding Chinese Law in Subscription Databases

The Hastings Law Library subscribes to a number of Internet-accessible resources that may be useful in your research. All of our online resources are listed here. You can access all of them on campus. Most of them also allow remote access. If you are not on campus, and you click on the database, you will be directed to this screen. To use the database off-campus, enter your name as indicated on your Hastings ID and your ID barcode number.

The information in these databases are not comprehensive, and the English translations of the Chinese laws are not authoritative and not always accurate. This is the nature of English translations of foreign laws. When available, students should compare more than one English translation of a legal document.

LawInfoChina

This English language database is maintained by The Legal Information Center of Peking University. The database is under continuous development and the creators are attempting to make available the most important and most typical legal documents first, for instance, Cases are chosen to reflect both current and predicted future trends in Chinese legal practice. For Hastings access to LawInfoChina, click on the "View Previous versions" link at the top of the screen

LawInfoChina contains editorially-enhanced versions of select cases, including the case background, facts, parties, trial and appellate court procedure, reasoning and law application, and the court decision. Select laws and regulations are available. For more information about what documents can be found in the LawInfoChina database, see the Products and Services webpage.

Searchable by key word, or browsable by topic:

  • also contains
    • Legal news
    • Overview of the legal system of China
    • Advanced search allows the user to limit the key word search to one of three databases:
      • Laws & Regulations
      • Cases and
      • Tax Treaties
    • The user can also limit the search:
      • by Subject, e.g. Commerce and Trading materials
      • by the publisher, e.g. Supreme People's Court
      • by status/effectiveness and by date

Alternatively, each of these databases can be searched separately:

WTO & China (In Chinese only).

Chinalawinfo is the Chinese Language databases associated with LawInfoChina.

Although the English version only contains the table of contents of select Chinese Law Journals and official gazettes published by the Chinese central government bodies, the full text of many of these documents are available in Chinese.

Chinese language searchable databases:

iSinolaw

This English language database is maintained by the iSinolaw Research Center in Hong Kong. It contains broad but incomplete coverage of the following: The Laws of the People’s Republic of China translated by the Legislative Affairs Commission of the National People’s Congress of China, State Council administrative regulations, rules or orders promulgated or approved by different departments under the State Council and institutions directly under the State Council such as Securities Regulatory Commission; local regulations and rules from various municipalities and provinces and Judicial interpretations from - Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate and  China’s WTO Accession Documentation.

[NOTE: Certain search features don't work in iSinolaw with the Firefox web browser.]

Lexis-Nexis

Most of the China coverage can be easily found in Lexis-Nexis by following the links shown below:

Legal > Find Laws by Country or Region > China & Hong Kong

Lexis-Nexis China and Hong Kong Coverage
Database Name Coverage
All Hong Kong Case Law (HKALL) Hong Kong Cases from 1947
Hong Kong Unreported Judgments from 1986
Hong Kong Public Law Reports from April 1994 - October 1997.
Hong Kong Unreported Judgments (HKURJ)

Hong Kong Unreported Judgments

This material goes back to 1982, with an ongoing project to expand back-coverage
to earlier years. On an ongoing basis, approximately 1,500 judgments per year
are being added to the file.

1982-current
LexisNexis China Law Database (LNCHNL) Selected documents from 1950 through current.
An authoritative collection of Chinese laws, regulations, tax information, judicial decisions, and other legal documents, collected from government sources, and translated into English.

Government sources include the National People's Congress, the State Council, the Supreme Court, the Ministry of Justice, Finance, and other ministries, the State Environmental Protection Administration, and other departments and offices.

Documents are selected for translation based on importance and frequency of use, and are drawn from the following jurisdictions and subject areas:

National Level
A.Tax
B.Finance
1.Banking
2.Foreign exchange
3.Asset evaluation (auction, trust)
4.Securities
5.Financing (debts, credit. loans)
C.Commerce and trade
1.foreign investment economic special Zone or preferential policies
2.foreign trade, export and import
3.Intellectual Property
4.Contract
5.Customs
6.Company
D. Insurance
E. Industry
1. Real property and land
2. Resources
3. Railway and roads
4. Media
5.Communication
6. Technology
F. Judicial interpretation concerning civil, commerce.

Local Level
II. Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou
Laws of Hong Kong (HKLAWS) The material in Laws of Hong Kong (HKLAWS) was originally extracted from the Bilingual Laws Information Service (BLIS) of the Department of Justice of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region with its statement of the Laws as of 26 January, 1999. Subsequent updates and amendments are administered by Butterworths Asia with reference to BLIS and the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Gazette.

This publication is intended to and should be used for research purposes. This publication is not authoritative.
China Law & Practice
(CHNLAW)

From January 2001 through current

China Law & Practice is the leading bilingual journal dedicated to the business of law in China. With 20 years of experience, China Law & Practice has become essential reading for anyone pursuing business opportunities in China. To browse the table of contents of this journal, visit the China Law & Practice website. Then you can search for the full-text articles on Lexis.
Inside US-China Trade (IUSCTD)

From February 22, 2006 through current

The weekly newsletter of China Trade Extra, an online news service, covering U.S. trade policies toward China, in the aftermath of China's accession to World Trade Organization membership. Specializes in getting exclusive news about the policy process
 

Halsbury's Laws of Hong Kong (HLHK) From June 29, 2002 through April 14, 2008 (Volume 42)
Halsbury's Laws of Hong Kong (HLHK) is an encyclopedic statement of the Law in Hong Kong, covering both judicial and legislative sources. Halsbury's divides the Laws into 80-odd subject areas.
Halsbury's Laws of Hong Kong is easily accessible through a full text search or a separate Table of Contents that lists the available titles in alphabetical order.  Links are provided to take you quickly to the section of interest.
Sections are browsable, so that you can easily view preceding or succeeding sections of the text you originally retrieved.
Hong Kong Law Journal (HKLJNL)

From 1995, Volume 25 Number 3 through 2000, Volume 30 Number 3
No longer updated

Find this one by following:

News & Business > Country & Region (excluding U.S.) > China, Macau & Hong Kong > Law Journals

 

 

Lexis also provides access to 9 Commentaries by experts on the following topics: China's New Labor Law; China's New Property Law; Forming a Wholly Foreign Owned Entity (WFOE) in China; Danone v. Wahaha: Lessons for Joint Ventures in China; Intro to the New Company Law of People's Republic of China; China: Foreign Investment in Service Businesses; New Aircraft Exports to China Restrictions under Military Catch-All; Changing Chinese Accounting Standards; and the China Insurance Regulatory Commission's released Circular No. 91.

Other relevant commentaries on China Law are also available on Lexis at

International Law > Emerging Issues > China

Lexis also carries the People's Republic Of China Law Digest, the Hong Kong Law Digest and the Macao Law Digest at

International Law > Search Analysis & CLE Materials > International Law Digests > Martindale-Hubbell(R) Law Digest - Asian Law Digests

News & Business > Country & Region (excluding U.S.) > China, Macau & Hong Kong > News (This provides access to 24 China news publications including Xinhua General News Service).

 

Westlaw

Much of the China coverage can be found in Westlaw by following the links shown below:

All Databases > International/Worldwide Materials > Asia and the Pacific Rim > Regional Materials > Cases

All Databases > International/Worldwide Materials > Asia and the Pacific Rim > Regional Materials > Legislation

All Databases > International/Worldwide Materials > Databases Listed Alphabetically by Country or Region > China > Business & News

All Databases > International/Worldwide Materials > Databases Listed Alphabetically by Country or Region > Hong Kong

 

The following are some of the most useful databases that are available in Westlaw:

Westlaw China and Hong Kong Coverage
Database Name Coverage
All Cases from Hong Kong HK-CS-ALL

Begins in the year 1905

Database contains full-text case reports from the Court of Final Appeal of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), The Court of Appeal of the High Court of the HKSAR (post-1997), The Court of Appeal of Hong Kong (pre-1997), The Court of First Instance of the High Court of the HKSAR (post-1997), The High Court of Hong Kong (pre-1997), other Hong Kong courts and tribunals, and the Privy Council as reported in The Hong Kong Law Reports and Digest (from 1905 to date). It also contains case law summary documents from the Hong Kong Law Reports & Digest series (from 1996 to date), and full text case law documents from the Hong Kong Latest Judgment Alert Service series (from 1999 to date).

 
Hong Kong Unreported Cases/Alert Service HK-LJAS

Begins in the year 1999

Contains full text case law documents from the Hong Kong Latest Judgment Alert Service series, published by Sweet & Maxwell Asia. These documents include unreported decisions from the Hong Kong regional courts and the Privy Council of Great Britain as provided by the judiciary of Hong Kong and selected by Sweet & Maxwell Asia editors.
Hong Kong Case Digests HK-DIGEST

Begins in the year 1985.

Database contains case law summary documents from the Hong Kong Law Reports & Digest series, published by Sweet & Maxwell Asia. These documents include summaries of decisions from the Hong Kong regional courts and the Privy Council of Great Britain as selected and prepared by Sweet & Maxwell Asia editors.

Hong Kong Law Reports

HKL-RPTS

Coverage begins with 1905.

Full-text case reports from Hong Kong Law Reports and Digest, the authorized reporting service for the courts of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (the Court of Final Appeal, the Court of Appeal of the High Court, and the Court of First Instance of the High Court); the courts of the British crown colony of Hong Kong (the Privy Council, the Court of Appeal, and the High Court); and other courts and tribunals, such as the District Court and Lands Tribunal.

Hong Kong International Commercial Arbitration - Case Law

HKICA-CS

Coverage begins with 1905.

Database contains International Commercial Arbitration case reports from the Court of Final Appeal of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), The Court of Appeal of the High Court of the HKSAR (post-1997), The Court of Appeal of Hong Kong (pre-1997), The Court of First Instance of the High Court of the HKSAR (post-1997), The High Court of Hong Kong (pre-1997), other Hong Kong courts and tribunals, and the Privy Council as reported in The Hong Kong Law Reports and Digest (from 1905 to date). It also contains case law summary documents from the Hong Kong Law Reports & Digest series (from 1996 to date), and full text case law documents from the Hong Kong Latest Judgment Alert Service series (from 1999 to date).

Hong Kong Securities Cases

HK-SEC-CS

Coverage begins with inception of publication in 1905; summaries begin with 1985.

Database contains full-text case reports relevant to the securities practice areas from the Court of Final Appeal of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), the Court of Appeal of the High Court of the HKSAR (post-1997), the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong (pre-1997), the Court of First Instance of the High Court of the HKSAR (post-1997), the High Court of Hong Kong (pre-1997), other Hong Kong courts and tribunals, and the Privy Council, as reported in The Hong Kong Law Reports and Digest, the authorized report series for the Hong Kong Judiciary.

Hong Kong Legislation

HK-LEG

Contains all Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Ordinances, Subsidiary Legislation and selected constitutional documents currently in force. Legislation that is enacted, but not yet in force is also included.

Hong Kong Civil Procedure (Hong Kong White Book)

HKCP

 Text of Hong Kong Civil Procedure, 2008 Edition, the White Book series from Sweet & Maxwell Asia, which covers the rules of civil procedure for the courts of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Includes updating supplements.

Chinese Journal of International Law

CHINESEJIL

Full-text articles from Chinese Journal of International Law. Full coverage begins with 2002 (vol. 1).

Journal of Chinese & Comparative Law

JCHINCL

Full-text articles from the Journal of Chinese and Comparative Law, which reviews the latest developments in the law in China while considering the political and economic issues that have an impact on Chinese law. Full coverage begins with 2001 (vol.5).

Content ceases with Vol 6 J Chinese & Comp L No 2 (2003).

Hong Kong Law Journal

HKLJ

 Full-text articles from the Hong Kong Law Journal published by Sweet & Maxwell Asia, which focuses on Hong Kong legal issues, including commentary on cases arising in Hong Kong, and related issues of international law affecting Hong Kong. Full coverage begins with 2001 (vol. 31).
SinoCast China Business Daily News ASIAPRTDLYN

Coverage begins 09/1997

This database contains the full text of SinoCast China Business Daily News, a newswire updated as available. Previously called AsiaInfo Daily China News.

Daily news items provided on key business intelligence, capital markets news & economic information abstracted from leading Chinese language business newspapers and periodicals from China and Hong Kong.

New issues are added as available.

Hong Kong Current Awareness (Multibase)

HKCA-ALL

database consists of abstracts or indexes of legal and regulatory events in Hong Kong. Early alerts of new cases with links to full-text case material are available in this database.

Coverage includes the most recent 90 days.

 

BNA International Trade Reporter

The weekly update in the BNA International Trade Reporter provides comprehensive, current information on developments affecting the trade and international business policies of the US and major US trading partners. It includes the latest news and trends in US trade policy, including regulatory, legislative, and judicial developments, activities of the International Trade Commission, Departments of State, Treasury, and Commerce, World Trade Organization, and European Union. Each week there is usually a "Country Checklist" for China.

Hastings students who want to receive a free weekly BNA email update with the contents of this report should sign-up here, and then click on "BNA news services." [Note: To access this database off-campus, you are required to authenticate that you are a Hastings student by entering your name and the barcode number from your Hastings ID card.]

 

Kluwer International Arbitration

  • Kluwer International Arbitration - is an excellent one-stop online subscription service providing information about arbitration laws and regulations in China. Once you're logged into the KluwerArbitration website, select "Browse Categories" tab and then "Countries"

 

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Free Sources of Chinese Law Online

Constitution | Government | Ministries | Institutions | National People's Congress | Supreme Court | Declaration of Human Rights | Basic Laws | Legislation Links | Embassy |

  • World Legal Information Institute: China - This is an excellent collection of links to most of the best websites for Chinese legal information on the Internet.
  • Ministry Of Foreign Affairs - Includes Foreign Policies, Official Activities, Speeches, Communiqués & Diplomatic Agenda.
  • Government White Papers - A collection of official Chinese government "White Papers" (in English) published by the Information Office of the State Council. Some of these may be useful research resources on various topics. State Council documents available online in English include: State Council Gazettes, Statistical Communiqués, White Papers, and Work Reports.
  • National People's Congress - The news website maintained by The National People's Congress, The People's Republic of China, is very good and is updated frequently. This website focuses on reporting all major missions and activities of the congress and its standing committee, releasing the laws, resolution/decisions and lists of appointments and removals passed by the standing committee. One interesting feature at this site is the Law Database. Using this database you can do quick research for Chinese statutes -- Just put the key word into "law database search" on the left side of the webpage. [Note: For some reason, this Law Database isn't always available.]
  • Chinese Civil & Commercial Law (CCCL) - The main content of this website is in Chinese while its English site offers a number of Chinese civil and commercial laws in English.
  • ChinaITLaw - Maintained by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Chinese Information Technology Law project aims to provide for free, the texts of China's IT regulations in Chinese and English.
  • CriminalLaw.com - Primarily in Chinese. The English version of this website publishes some introductory articles written in English regarding Chinese criminal law. It is a good research resource for Chinese criminal law, criminal procedure, and evidence.
  • Congressional-Executive Commission on China - This website was created by U.S. Congress in October 2000 with a legislative mandate [H.R. 4444, 106th Cong. (2000)] to monitor human rights and the development of the rule of law in China, and to submit an annual report to the President and the Congress. The commission consists of nine Senators, nine members of the House of Representatives, and five senior Administration officials appointed by the President. This website includes the annual reports of the commission, the topical papers, and the statements of panelists participating in the roundtables organized by the commission. A good place to track current legal issues in China.
  • China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) - If you want to do business in China, you need to know about CIETAC. At this website you can find arbitration rules, Chinese laws, case analysis, and reports.
  • The Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China - This is an official website. It is a gateway to all Chinese government information and services, and an interactive channel between government and the public. It includes laws and regulations, the Constitution, official publications (such as State Council Gazettes, Statistical Communiqués, White Papers, & Work Reports), and the searchable China Legislative Information Network System.
  • China's Ministry of Justice website - It includes information on legislative developments, judicial assistance, legal aid, and a Chinese law search system.

  • Bilingual Laws Information System - The U.S. Government maintains this free online database containing:
    • the statute laws of Hong Kong in English and Chinese
    • constitutional and other relevant documents, including the constitution of the PRC, the Sino-British Joint Declaration, the Basic Law of the HKSAR and the PRC national laws that apply in the HKSAR
    • English-Chinese Glossary of Legal Terms and the Chinese-English Glossary of Legal Terms
    • Chinese Subject Index of Ordinances
    • English Subject Index of Ordinances
Note though, that although BLIS is an official Government publication, it does not have legal status.

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China Legal Research Guides

Globalex Guides

LLRX Guides

Other Legal Research Guides

  • ABA China Law Guide - A collection of links to web-based and print research guides on PRC legal & business resources. Prepared by Kara Phillips; Associate Executive Librarian, Seattle University Law Library. Maintained at the American Bar Association Section of International Law's China Committee website. [Also see --- ABA China Committee Internet Links & ABA Section of International Law: China Committee]
  • WashLaw's PRC Law Guide - People's Republic of China law resource page with links to the China constitution, China government, China law firms, China law, China law discussion group, China legal research, China judiciary, China study abroad programs, China law schools, China legislature, China law guide, and more.
  • Wei Luo of the Internet Chinese legal Research Center maintains a webpage of annotated links to Chinese Law Resources on the Internet, including databases of China law mostly in Chinese with limited availability of English translations. This site is in English, but is more useful for students who read Chinese.
  • Foreign Law Guide: China - This guide to foreign law is available in the Hastings library in print and online. Use the pull-down menu at the top of the page and select "China, People's Republic of" to find useful information about China's legal history, legislation, and judicial system. [Note: To access this resource off-campus, you are required to authenticate that you are a Hastings student by entering your name and the barcode number from your Hastings ID.]
  • Asian Law Centre Links - A website maintained by Melbourne Law School's Asian Law Centre with useful links to online PRC legal information and a bibliography of print resources.
  • Selected Resources on Chinese Business Research - This pdf Guide to China business law is prepared by Kara Phillips, Collection Development Librarian/Associate Director, Seattle University Law. It contains links to online research guides, useful websites and a select bibliography of relevant books.
  • Library of Congress China Law Research Guide - Basic Guide to China Law, including links to China Courts and Government Agencies.
  • Guide to China Law Databases (Laws of PRC, Hong Kong, and Taiwan) - by NYU Law Library

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Updated August 31, 2011
Prepared by Foreign Comparative & International Law Librarian
-and- Catherine Deane, J.D., M.A., International Law Library Assistant

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