Friday, August 14, 2015

10th Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association (欧洲中国法研究协会); University of Cologne — 25–27 September 2015


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
  • 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
Session 2: New Developments in Chinese Corporate Law and Securities Law
Panel Chair: Dr Knut Benjamin Pissler, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private 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
Session 3: Zhengfa: In Pursuit of the Component Elements for a Theory of Chinese Law
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 University

12.15-13.30 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
  • 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
Session 5: Current Developments in Chinese Labour Law
Panel Chair: Dr Andreas Lauffs (TBC)
  • 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
Session 6: The Semiotics of Chinese Communist Party “Law” and State Law — Part I
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 University

15.00-15.30 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
  • 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
Session 8: Chinese Investment Law and New Developments in Bilateral Investment Treaties with China
Panel Chair: Prof Li Yuwen, University of Rotterdam
  • 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
Session 9: New Perspectives on the Nature of Chinese Law
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
  • 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
Session 11: New Legal Perspectives on the Relation of the State and the Market
Panel Chair: Prof Lutz-Christian Wolff, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • 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
Session 12: The Semiotics of Chinese Communist Party “Law” and State Law — Part II
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 University

10.30-11.00 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
  • 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
Session 14: Investigating Legal Change in Divorce Law, Contract Law and Privacy Protection
Panel Chair: Prof Marina Timoteo, University of Bologna
  • 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
Session 15: Tradition and Reform of Chinese Law
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 Education

13.00-14.00 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
  • 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
Session 17: Administrative Litigation and Environmental Protection Law
Panel Chair: Dr Chen Yongxi, University of Hong Kong
  • 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
Session 18: New Perspectives on the Interaction between Chinese Law and International Law
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 Rotterdam

15.30-16.00 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
  • 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
Session 20: Socio-Economic Transformation and Chinese Law
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 Turin

17.30–17.45 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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