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Events
2013
- “Sex Workers in China: A Rights Perspective” (13 May 2013)
Roundtable Seminar by the CUHK Gender Research Centre and Centre for Rights and Justice - “China’s Path to Government by Law” (13 May 2013)
Research Seminar by Zhu Xinli, Executive Vice Dean and Professor of Law, Zhejiang University Guanghua Law School - “Crying for Justice: Public Opinion and the Future of Re-Education through Labour in China” (6 May 2013)
Research Seminar by Joshua D. Rosenzweig, Centre for China Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong - “An Epistemology of Chinese Law: Case Studies from Media and Intellectual Property Law” (2 May 2013)
Research Seminar by Rogier Creemers, Research Officer, University of Oxford Programme for Comparative Media Law and Policy - “Chinese Legal History and the Legal Profession in Traditional China” (25 April 2013)
Research Seminar by Sun Yat-sen University School of Law Professor Du Jin - “Environmental Justice and Rights Advocacy” (19-20 April 2013)
CRJ Conference
[view the programme] - “Supranational Protection of Human Rights in Europe: On Cohabitation of the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union” (19 April 2013)
EUAP-CRJ talk by Judge Lech Garlicki, European Court of Human Rights - “The Constitution, the Media and the Chinese Rights Defence Movement: Ten Years after the Death of Sun Zhigang” (13 April 2013)
CRJ Conference
[view the programme] - “A Tale of Two Nobels: Liu Xiaobo and Mo Yan” (28 March 2013)
CRJ and the Independent Chinese PEN Centre Seminar by Professor Perry Link, Chancellorial Chair Professor for Innovative Teaching Comparative Literature & Foreign Languages in College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, University of California, Riverside, and Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies, Princeton University - “Capital Punishment and Domestic Violence in China: The Li Yan Case” (7 March 2013)
Roundtable discussion by Joy L. Chia, CRJ Visiting Scholar, CUHK Faculty of Law; Dr. Teng Biao, CRJ Visiting Scholar, CUHK Faculty of Law; Titan Cheung, Amnesty International - “Environmental Information Disclosure and Public Participation in China” (6 February 2013)
Research seminar by Associate Professor Yang Sujuan, Deputy Director, Research Institute of Environment and Resources Law, China University of Politics and Law - “Environmental Tribunals and Public Interest Litigation in China” (5 February 2013)
Research seminar by Associate Professor Yang Sujuan, Deputy Director, Research Institute of Environment and Resources Law, China University of Politics and Law - “Environmental Rights Advocacy in China: Difficulties and the Way Out” (29 January 2013)
Research seminar by Associate Professor Yang Sujuan, Deputy Director, Research Institute of Environment and Resources Law, China University of Politics and Law - “Grassroots Struggle, and the Interpretation of Activist Documentary: From Taishi Village to Three Days in Wukan” (25 January 2013)
Research seminar by Zeng Jinyan, Mphil Candidate, The University of Hong Kong - “Toward Legal Empowerment: An Empirical Account of Paralegal Services by Grassroots Labor Organizations in China” (15 January 2013)
Research seminar by Dr. Pan Xuanming, Edwards Fellow, Columbia Law School
2012
- "Anticorruption Campaign and Application of the UN Convention against Corruption in China" (4 December 2012)
Research seminar by Professor Li Xiujuan, Dean of School of Law and Political Science, Beijing Geely University - "Gender, Sexuality and the Law in China" (29 November 2012)
Research seminar by Joy L. Chia, CRJ Visiting Scholar, CUHK Faculty of Law - "Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today [The Schulberg/Waletzky Restoration]" (26 November 2012)
CRJ Film Screening, with an introduction by Ms. Sandra Schulberg, Producer of the Restoration and Ambassador Stephen J. Rapp, Ambassador-at-Large and Head of the Office of Global Criminal Justice, U.S. Department of State - "The Prosecution of National Leaders by International Courts" (26 November 2012)
Seminar by Ambassador Stephen J. Rapp, Ambassador-at-Large and Head of the Office of Global Criminal Justice, U.S. Department of State - "One Country Two Systems of Policing: People’s Republic of China Gong An vs. Hong Kong Police Reform" (23 November 2012)
Research seminar by Professor Kam C. Wong from Xavier University - "Nine Years on: the ‘Sun Zhigang Incident’ and the Future of Constitutionalism in China" (19 November 2012)
Research seminar by Dr. Teng Biao, CRJ Visiting Scholar, CUHK Faculty of Law, Lecturer, China University of Politics and Law, and Director, China Against Death Penalty (CADP) - "Overcoming the Copyright Crisis: What Can Human Rights Add to the Debate?" (12 November 2012)
Research seminar by Professor Christophe Geiger, Director General and Director of the Research Department of the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies at the University of Strasbourg, France - "Presentation of China Perspectives Nº 2012/3 Locating Civil Society: Communities Defending Basic Liberties" (18 October 2012)
Seminar by the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China and Centre for Rights and Justice
- "Law and Literature: Two Perspectives on Wrongful Convictions in Mainland China" (9 October 2012)
Research seminar by Professor He Jiahong, Director of the Institute of Evidence Law, Renmin University of China School of Law
- "Suing Tax Collectors in China: On the Selection of Tax-Related Administrative Lawsuits for Trial" (24 September 2012)
Research seminar by Professor Ji Li, Rutgers School of Law - "Troubled Waters: China and Legal Claims to the South China Sea" (29 May 2012)
Research seminar by Jacques deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania - "Freedoms Put in Peril in the Name of National Security" [以國家安全之名置自由於危機研討會] (19 May 2012)
Amnesty International Hong Kong Symposium organized with suport from the Centre for Rights and Justice
- "Police Interviews and the Suspect’s Right to Silence" (2 April 2012)
Research seminar by Christopher Knight, senior partner of Knight & Ho, Solicitors - "Gender, Armed Conflict and Security" (17 March 2012)
Roundtable discussion - "Evolution of Administrative Law in the United States" (13 March 2012)
Research seminar by Judge Stephen Williams, US Court of Appeals (DC Circuit) - "Civil Society in Contemporary China" [当代中国公民社会研究] (8 March 2012)
Seminar under joint auspices of Centre d'Etudes Français sur la Chine Contemporaine and CRJ - "The Revision of the Criminal Procedure Law" [刑事诉讼法修正案学术座谈会] (13 February 2012)
Research seminar
2011
- "'You say innocence. I say leniency for those who confess'-- Kuanyan xiangji and legal formants in the PRC" (12 December 2011)
Research seminar by Dr. Flora Sapio, Visiting Scholar, Centre for Rights and Justice, Faculty of Law, CUHK - "Social Media and Citizens' Rights and Interests" [社交媒体与公民权益] (10 December 2011)
Workshop co-hosted by CRJ, attended by NGO workers, lawyers and journalists from mainland China and Kong Kong - "PRC Criminal Justice Developments" (1 December 2011)
Roundtable seminar - "Crime Generation and Victim Prevention"[犯罪生成与被害预防] (23 November 2011)
Research seminar by Professor Li An, Vice Dean of Hangzhou Normal University Law School - "Article 23: Past, Present and Future" (19 November 2011)
Young scholars' workshop on Article 23 of the Basic Law - "Constitutional Engagement in a Transnational Era" (28 October 2011)
Research seminar by Professor Vicki Jackson, Thurgood Marshall Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School - "Certain Issues in the Judicial Reform in Mainland China" [中國内地司法改革中的若干問题] (4 October 2011)
Research seminar by Professor Dong Maoyun, Fudan University School of Law, China
- "The Common Law Tradition Today" (27 September 2011)
UK Supreme Court Judges, Lord Phillips, Lord Hope and Lord Clarke lecture on the Common Law Tradition Today organized by the Centre for Rights and Justice (CRJ) in collaboration with the British Consulate-General Hong Kong and Macau - "The Situation of Criminal Defence and Human Rights Lawyers in the PRC" (23 September 2011)
Roundtable seminar - "The Proposed Revision of the PRC Criminal Procedure Law" (20 September 2011)
Research seminar by researchers from the academic and NGO communities to discuss the draft revision of the PRC Criminal Procedure Law - "Criminal Reconciliation in the PRC" (25 August 2011)
Research seminar presentation by Jiang Jue, PhD Candidate at CUHK Faculty of Law - "Old and New Procreation Arguments Against Same-Sex Marriage in the USA" (24 June 2011)
Research seminar presentation by Edward Stein, Vice Dean, Professor of Law, and Director, Program in Family Law, Policy, & Bioethics, Cardozo School of Law - "My Children Have Been Poisoned – China’s Lead Poisoning Public Health Crisis" (14 June 2011)
Research seminar with Joseph Amon and Jane Cohen (Human Rights Watch); comments from Professor Zhao Yuhong (CUHK Faculty of Law) - "From Piracy to Terrorism under International Law" (3 June 2011)
Public lecture by The Right Hon the Lord Mance, Justice of the UK Supreme Court, jointly organized with the International Law Association Hong Kong Chapter - "Criminal Justice in China: Comparative Perspectives" (7-8 May 2011)
International conference - "The Death Penalty and the Privy Council" (1 April 2011)
Public lecture by Edward Fitzgerald QC - "Seminar on Rights Defence in Public Health Cases" [中国公共卫生维权个案研究] (5 March 2011)
Research seminar co-organised with HKU Centre for Chinese Law Studies, featuring presentations by two Mainland lawyers on the cases of Zhao Lianhai and Tian Xi (in Putonghua)
2010
- "Sovereign Immunity in Hong Kong and China"
(14 December 2010)
Seminar with James Li Zhaojie, Professor of International Law, Tsinghua University Law School, and Tony Carty, Sir Y K Pao Chair in Public Law, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, moderated by Ling Bing, Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law
