I am delighted to post the program for the 10th Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association (欧洲中国法研究协会): New Perspectives on the Development of Law in China.
The Conference will be held at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Cologne. It will bring together scholars from Europe, the Americas and China. Since its founding in 2006, the European China Law Studies Association has become a major international venue for scholars and practitioners who are engaged in the study of Chinese law, from both comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. The annual conference is a leading international academic forum for the exchange of information and ideas on Chinese law, as well as a platform for the initiation of research collaboration.
The Program follows.
Programme
Participants have to register for the conference by 31 August 2015 through the participants’ area. More information on the conference venues can be found in the members’ area.
Friday, 25 September 2015
15.00–16.30 h — ECLS General Assembly Meeting
Institute of East Asian Studies, Room 3.07
Dürener Straße 56–60, 50931 Cologne
The meeting is for ECLS members only, membership application forms will be available for those who would like to join the ECLS
Please register your participation in the members’ area
18.00–22.00 h — Reception at Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Cäcilienstraße 29–33, 50667 Cologne
Please register your participation in the members’ area
Saturday, 26 September 2015
09.00–09.30 h — Welcome Remarks
University of Cologne Seminar Building
Universitätsstraße 37, 50931 Cologne
- Prof Stephan Schröder, Associate Dean of the Arts and Humanities Faculty, University of Cologne
- Dr Knut Benjamin Pissler, President, European China Law Studies Association (ECLS)
- Prof Uwe Blaurock, President, German-Chinese Jurists’ Association (DCJV)
- Prof Björn Ahl, Convenor of the 10th Annual ECLS Conference
09.30–10.30 h — Keynote Speeches
University of Cologne Seminar Building
Universitätsstraße 37, 50931 Cologne
- Prof He Xin, City University of Hong Kong
- Dr Sabine Stricker-Kellerer, Senior China Counsel, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
10.30-10.45 h — Coffee Break
10.45-12.15 h — Parallel Sessions
University of Cologne Seminar Building
Universitätsstraße 37, 50931 Cologne
Session 1: Current Issues of the Implementation of Human Rights in China
Panel Chair: Prof Lin Feng, City University of Hong Kong
Session 2: New Developments in Chinese Corporate Law and Securities Law
- Judicial Enforcement of International Human Rights through Weak Courts in China
Wang Shucheng, City University of Hong Kong- The Integration and Coordination within the UN Human Rights System and Its Challenges to China
Sun Meng, China University of Political Science and Law- Business, Sustainable Development and Human Rights in China
Jernej Letnar Černič, Graduate School of Government and European Studies
Panel Chair: Dr Knut Benjamin Pissler, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Session 3: Zhengfa: In Pursuit of the Component Elements for a Theory of Chinese Law
- Accountability of Capital Maintenance Rules of Chinese Corporation Law after Recent Reform
Sun Lifeng, China Railway International Co., Ltd.- Antitakeover Measures in Chinese Corporate Governance: Rethinking IPOs in China
Han Sirui, Chinese University of Hong Kong- Informality Matters: Enforcement of Securities Laws in China
Xi Chao, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Panel Chair: Prof He Xin, City University of Hong Kong
- The Ideological Grammar of Chinese Law
Rogier Creemers, University of Oxford- The Narrative Building Blocks for the 4th Plenum: Developing Party Vocabulary on Rule of Law
Ewan Smith, University of Oxford, Renmin University- Political Discourse in the People’s War on Terror
Susan Trevaskes, Griffith University12.15-13.30 h — Lunch Break
13.30-15.00 h — Parallel Sessions
University of Cologne Seminar Building
Universitätsstraße 37, 50931 Cologne
Session 4: Chinese Courts and Recent Judicial Reforms
Panel Chair: Prof Stéphanie Balme, Sciences Po
Session 5: Current Developments in Chinese Labour Law
- Assessing China’s Court Reforms after One Year
Susan Finder, Hong Kong University- Judicial Autonomy and the Communist Party of China: The Roles of Political Legal Committee in the Decision-making of the Courts
Yue Liu, University of British Columbia- Study on the Legislationalization of Judicial Interpretations (“Sifa Jieshi”)
Yang Guodong, Hamburg University- The Status of Guiding Cases Under the Judicial Reform
Li Weiwei, Shenzhen University
Panel Chair: Dr Andreas Lauffs (TBC)
Session 6: The Semiotics of Chinese Communist Party “Law” and State Law — Part I
- Chinese Workers with Benefits
Ronald Brown, University of Hawaii at Manoa- Labour in Defiance: The Emergence of Autonomous Collective Bargaining in China
Zhang Yihong, University of Helsinki- Transformation and Functional Evolution of the Sectoral Collective Bargaining in the PRC
Valentina Bellomo, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Panel Chair: Dr Elisa Nesossi, Australian National University
- On the Historical Origins and Current Application of the Concept of the People's Democratic Dictatorship and the Mass Line
Gao Shan, Pennsylvania State University- The Ideological Structures of Chinese Constitutionalism: Reading the General Program of the Chinese Communist Party Constitution
Larry Catá Backer, Pennsylvania State University- “Seeking Truth from Facts” in Party Discipline Legislation
Flora Sapio, Australian National University15.00-15.30 h — Coffee Break
15.30-17.30 h — Parallel Sessions
University of Cologne Seminar Building
Universitätsstraße 37, 50931 Cologne
Session 7: Central and Local Law-making in China
Panel Chair: Prof Caroline von Gall, University of Cologne
Session 8: Chinese Investment Law and New Developments in Bilateral Investment Treaties with China
- How Do Local People’s Congresses Lead the Lawmaking in China: The Case of Legislative Evaluation
Wen Guanbin, Tilburg University- The Role of the State Council in the Lawmaking Process: The Case of the Anti-Monopoly Law
Wendy Ng, University of Adelaide- Whose Voice, Whose Interests?
Natalie Mrockova, University of Oxford- Regulation of the Inter-Provincial Establishment of Companies: Applying the Economics of Federalism to China
Shen Guang, Maastricht University- The Legislative Power of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone
Madeleine Martinek, University of Göttingen
Panel Chair: Prof Li Yuwen, University of Rotterdam
Session 9: New Perspectives on the Nature of Chinese Law
- Legal Reforms to Foreign Investment and International Investment Agreements
Vivienne Bath, University of Sydney- China’s New Bilateralism and Legal Competitive Externalities
David Hallinan, University College Dublin- China-EU Investment-Treaty – Preserving the Status Quo or Moving Forward?
Hinrich Julius, Hamburg University- Economic Exigencies and the Potential Proliferation of Investor-State Arbitration: When are Government Measures Tantamount to Expropriation?
Claire Wilson, Hong Kong Shue Yan University- Chinese Academic Discourse on International Dispute Resolution and Sovereignty in Economic and Territorial Disputes – Practice and Prospects of the PRC at the WTO DSM, ICSID, ITLOS and ICJ
Thomas Stephan Eder, University of Vienna
Panel Chair: Dr Rogier Creemers, University of Oxford
- The Flexibility of Chinese Law – Trick or Treat?Lutz-Christian Wolff, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Law vs. Law Enforcement: The Case of Chengguan in ChinaPhilipp Hirschfeld
- Understanding the Conflict between China’s ConstitutionsJean Christopher Mittelstaedt, Sciences Po
18.00-20.00 h — Guided City Tour
Meeting Point: University of Cologne Seminar Building
Universitätsstraße 37, 50931 Cologne
Please register your participation in the members’ area
Sunday, 27 September 2015
09.00-10.30 h — Parallel Sessions
University of Cologne Seminar Building
Universitätsstraße 37, 50931 Cologne
Session 10: Legal Transfers as a Driving Factor of the Development of the Chinese Civil Code, Investment and Tax Law
Panel Chair: Prof Georg Gesk, Osnabrück University
Session 11: New Legal Perspectives on the Relation of the State and the Market
- Foreign Trade and Investment Law in China: Legal Transfer and Development in an Evolving Legal System
Zhao Lijun, Middlesex University- A Civil Code for XXI Century China: Comparative Law Perspectives
Marina Timoteo, University of Bologna- Legal Transfers and the Development of the Chinese Tax System
Bernard Schneider, Queen Mary University of London
Panel Chair: Prof Lutz-Christian Wolff, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Session 12: The Semiotics of Chinese Communist Party “Law” and State Law — Part II
- Trademark Co-existence without Confusion in China? Recent Trademark Cases from the Zhejiang Courts
Roger Greatrex, Lund University- State as an Entrepreneur: A Study of the Investment Contractual Terms and Level of Control of China’s Sovereign Wealth Fund in its Portfolio Firms
Li Jing, Tilburg University- State Intervention, Planned Innovation: Law-Driven Developments in Chinese Hedge Funds
Christopher Hsu, Goethe University Frankfurt
Panel Chair: Dr Flora Sapio, Australian National University
- Virtue, Law and the Perfectionist State: An Analysis of “Fazhi” with Xi’s Characteristics
Elisa Nesossi, Australian National University- The 2008 Anti-Monopoly Law
Beth Farmer, Pennsylvania State University- Reexamining Hong Kong’s Political Tensions under the Theoretical Foundation of Chinese Socialist System
Wang Keren, Pennsylvania State University10.30-11.00 h — Coffee Break
11.00-13.00 h — Parallel Sessions
University of Cologne Seminar Building
Universitätsstraße 37, 50931 Cologne
Session 13: Images of Law: Legal Professions and Activism in Chinese Film
Panel Chair: Prof Felix Wemheuer, University of Cologne
Session 14: Investigating Legal Change in Divorce Law, Contract Law and Privacy Protection
- Executing Justice: A Gender Perspective on Inspector Wu Hongyan in “Night Train” by Diao Yinan (2007)
Astrid Lipinsky, University of Vienna- Mundane Police Work in Chinese Documentary Film: The Works of Zhao Liang and Zhou Hao
Marina Svensson, Lund University- Disobedient Images: Human Rights Lawyers’ Visual Advocacy and the Formation of Civic Rights Consciousness in China
Eva Pils, King’s College London- Picturing the Judiciary: (Re-)constructing the Person of the Judge in Chinese Film
Agnes Schick-Chen, University of Vienna- Comparing Judicial Cultures
Stéphanie Balme, Sciences Po
Panel Chair: Prof Marina Timoteo, University of Bologna
Session 15: Tradition and Reform of Chinese Law
- 百年(不)好合! One Hundred Years of Marital (Un)happiness! An Analysis of Divorce Proceedings Involving Domestic Violence in China
Sara D’Attoma, Ca’ Foscari University Venice- Good Faith in Chinese Civil Law
Matti Tjäder, University of Lapland- Personal Information Protection without a Public Right to Privacy: Revisiting the Recent Development of Chinese Law-making regarding Data Privacy and Surveillance
Chen Yongxi, University of Hong Kong- Online Privacy Protection in China: Present and Future
Zhao Yun, Hong Kong University
Panel Chair: Prof Roger Greatrex, University of Lund
- Theorising the Dynamics of Socio-legal Change in Early China
Ernest Caldwell, SOAS University of London- Western Universalism versus Cultural Relativism during the Process of Chinese Legal Transformation: The Example of Family Law as a “Hard Core” of Legal Culture
Luo Gang, University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne- Present at the Creation: Tracing the Origin of Terms Contained in the Macau Basic Law
Jason Buhi, Beijing University, University of Hong Kong- Seeing Tradition in Modernity: Yang Honglie’s Historiography of China’s Legal System
Britta Büermann, University of Göttingen- Chinese Culture and Perceptions of Rule of Law: A Comparison between Hong Kong and Taiwan
Lee Karen, Hong Kong Institute of Education13.00-14.00 h — Lunch Break
14.00-15.30 h — Parallel Sessions
University of Cologne Seminar Building
Universitätsstraße 37, 50931 Cologne
Session 16: New Developments in Chinese Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law
Panel Chair: Prof Thomas Weigend, University of Cologne
Session 17: Administrative Litigation and Environmental Protection Law
- The Challenges of Implementation of Criminal Procedure Law
Yue Liling, China University of Political Science and Law- Legal and Political Rights Advocacy in Wrongful Conviction Cases: A Study of the Leping Case of Injustice
Jiang Jue, Chinese University of Hong Kong- Accumulation of Criminal Actions as Risk Factor for Doing Business in China
Georg Gesk, Osnabrück Univerisity
Panel Chair: Dr Chen Yongxi, University of Hong Kong
Session 18: New Perspectives on the Interaction between Chinese Law and International Law
- The Reform of the Reform – Tendencies in China’s Administrative Law
Nina Rotermund, University of Göttingen- Towards the Blue Skies: The Revision of China’s Air Quality Prevention Act (AQPA) and Actual Changes that are Brought Upon
Roni Blankett, Sami Laiso, Jaakko Rastas, University of Lapland- State’s Obligation to Conduct Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment in Preventing Nuclear Damage: An Overview of China’s Practice
Ha Lisi, Wuhan Univeristy- The Making of the Chinese Nationality Law
Jasper Habicht, University of Cologne
Panel Chair: Prof Peter-Tobias Stoll, University of Göttingen
- International and Domestic Law in China: A Sociolegal Perspective
Wim Muller, University of Manchester- Interaction Between International Standards and Domestic Constitutional Norms – A Case Study of the Chief Executive Election in Hong Kong
Lin Feng, City University Hong Kong- The Issue of China’s Market Economy Status after 2016
Kong Qingjiang, China University of Political Science and Law- Influence of International Law on the New Chinese Foreign Investment Law Draft
Li Yuwen, University of Rotterdam15.30-16.00 h — Coffee Break
16.00-17.30 h — Parallel Sessions
University of Cologne Seminar Building
Universitätsstraße 37, 50931 Cologne
Session 19: Current Issues in Chinese Dispute Resolution
Panel Chair: Prof Katrin Blasek, Wildau University of Applied Sciences
Session 20: Socio-Economic Transformation and Chinese Law
- The Analysis of the Factors Driving Public Interest Litigation in China
Jiang Junxin, University of Turku- Competing over the Law: The Legal Consciousness of Petitioners in Chinese Courts
Feng Yuqing, Southeast University- Judicial “Mediation” in China – Recent Developments and Future Trends
Nils Pelzer, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law- Why the Western ADR Theory Cannot Justify the Chinese Courts’ Role in Court-annexed Mediation – An Empirical Examination
Li Yedan, University of Amsterdam
Panel Chair: Prof Ronald Brown, University of Hawaii at Manoa
- Theorising “Elder Law” in China: Towards a Relational Account
Mimi Zou, Chinese University of Hong Kong- The Elderly in Guardianship: A People-Centred Proposal
Rebecca Lee, University of Hong Kong- The Study of Support System of Policy and Law related to Embedded Social Structure and Social Community in Xinjiang
Zhang Zhaoxia, Northwest University for Nationalities, Sichuan University- “Collect Gold in Times of Trouble, Collect Jade in Good Times”: Private Market, Public Engagement and the Protection of Cultural Property in the People’s Republic of China
Simona Novaretti, University of Turin17.30–17.45 h — Closing Remarks
University of Cologne Seminar Building
Universitätsstraße 37, 50931 Cologne
- Prof Björn Ahl, Convenor of the 10th Annual ECLS Conference
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