Decoding China’s Sixth Five-Year Judicial Reform Plan

photo of 6th Five-Year Judicial Reform Plan Press Conference

I recently (18 January 2026) published an article in the Zeitschrift für Chinesisches Recht/German Journal of Chinese Law entitled “Decoding China’s Sixth Five-Year Judicial Reform Plan.” The article can be downloaded from the journal website here and directly downloaded here.

 Many thanks to Benjamin Pissler and Holger Hanisch of the journal for their efficient and thoughtful editing. Special thanks to Maximus Sandler for his help with the references and Hu Changming (胡昌明) for his perceptive comments on earlier drafts of the article.

Wishing all followers and readers a very good year of the Horse! 马年吉祥!

 

China’s International Commercial Court Network: A Work in Progress

I was honored to be invited by the New York University School of Law’s U.S. Asia Law Institute to contribute a short essay to the Institute’s Perspectives blog, entitled China’s International Commercial Court Network: A Work in Progress

 Many thanks to Katherine Wilhelm for her skillful editing!  The essay would not have been possible without the hard work of Sun Jinping (孙金苹) (Elsa), one of my Peking University School of Transnational Law students, who reviewed information related to all 16 international commercial tribunals and assembled this chart. On 4 February, the Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court announced that the Guangzhou international commercial tribunal had been established, so the total number of international commercial tribunals now stands at 17. Thanks also to several highly knowledgeable people who contributed their insights.