Since the Supreme People’s Court Monitor began, Monitor blogposts have been used as a resource in government reports, as well as in reports or articles and books by think tanks, legal professionals, professors, and students in different parts of the world.

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1. 2014 Report of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, http://www.cecc.gov/sites/chinacommission.house.gov/files/documents/AR14A2J.pdf
2. 2015 Report of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, http://www.cecc.gov/sites/chinacommission.house.gov/files/2015%20Annual%20Report.pdf
3. China’s Environmental Protection Law: A Review, http://www.asiaglobalinstitute.hku.hk/en/chinas-environmental-protection-law-review/pdf/
4. Susan Trevaskes, Creative Death Penalty Reform in China: The Case of Drug Transportation, Law & Policy, Volume 38, Issue 2, pages 143–161, April 2016
5. Susan Trevaskes and Elisa Nesossi. Chapter 6: The Sword of Discipline and the Dagger of Justice, http://www.thechinastory.org/yearbooks/yearbook-2014/chapter-6-the-sword-of-discipline-and-the-dagger-of-justice/
6. Judge Judith Gibson, Social Media and the Electronic “New World” of Judges, International Journal of Court Administration, 2016, http://www.iacajournal.org/articles/abstract/10.18352/ijca.199/
7. Jonathan Josef Kinkel, High-End Demand: Markets for Legal Services and Pressure for Judicial Autonomy in Urban China (doctoral dissertation), https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/31450/KINKEL-DISSERTATION-2015.pdf?sequence=1
8. Randall Peerenboom, The Future of Legal Reforms in China: A Critical Appraisal of the Decision on Comprehensively Deepening Reform, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2379161
9. Renu Rana, China’s Information Disclosure Initiative
   Assessing the Reforms, China Report, http://chr.sagepub.com/content/51/2/129.refs?patientinform-links=yes&legid=spchr;51/2/129
10. Andrew Scott, RECENT POLITICAL AND LEGAL EFFORTS TO REFORM TRADE SECRET LAW IN CHINA, https://cbatipsforalawstudent.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/political-and-legal-reform-in-china.pdf
11. Angela Huyue Zhang, Taming the Chinese Leviathan: Is Antitrust Regulation a False Hope?, Stanford Journal of International Law, 51 Stan. J Int’l L. 195, https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay&crawlid=1&doctype=cite&docid=51+Stan.+J+Int%27l+L.+195&srctype=smi&srcid=3B15&key=73cdbf3b40630259c81f6625aa2dc670
12. John M.L. Gibb-Carsley, DEALING WITH THE DRAGON: WHAT SAFEGUARDS ARE REQUIRED TO MAKE AN EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN CANADA AND THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA CONFORM TO CANADIAN EXTRADITION LAW?, https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0221363
13. John Garrick & Yan Chang Bennett, China’s Socialist Rule of Law Reforms Under Xi Jinping (book), Routledge, 2016
14. Cecily Baskir, Ma Liqun, & Li Ao, Chinese Clinical Legal Education: Globalizing and Localizing, Clinical Legal Education in Asia: Accessing Justice for the Underprivileged (book), ed. Shuvro Sharker, 2015
15. Surya Deva, Preface, Socio-Economic Rights in Emerging Free Markets: Comparative Insights from India and China, ed. Surya Deva, 2015
16. Report of Special Committee of China Affairs, 2014, Hong Kong Bar Association, http://hkba.org/whatsnew/chairman-corner/annual-statement/2014-2015/SC%20on%20Greater%20China%20Affairs%202014%20(e).pdf
17. Jean MITTELSTAEDT, Jean Mittelstaedt on Jerome A. Cohen, “A Looming Crisis for China’s Legal System: Talented Judges and Lawyers are Leaving the Profession, as Ideology Continues to Trump the Rule of Law” http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.hk/2016/02/jean-mittelstaedt-on-jerome-cohen.html
18. John Garrick and Yan Chang Bennett, UUMJLS 01/2015; 6(1):1-12.
19. Anna High, Combating Domestic Violence in China,
    Problems, Progress and Prospects, Pandora’s Box, journal of the Justice & the Law Society of the Queensland Law Society, https://supremepeoplescourtmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/d2ae6-31ab3-pandora27sbox2014.pdf
20. Randall Peerenboom, The Battle Over Legal Reforms in China: Has There Been a Turn Against Law?, The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, http://cjcl.oxfordjournals.org/content/2/2/188.full
21.  Mahalakshmi Ganapathy, Paving the path for Rule of law in China – reform or empty rhetoric?, http://www.orfonline.org/research/paving-the-path-for-rule-of-law-in-china-reform-or-empty-rhetoric/
22. Daniel Rosen, Avoiding the Blind Alley, An Asia Society Policy Institute Report, 2014http://rhg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/AvoidingBlindAlley_ExecutiveSummary.pdf
23. Fu Hualing, Building Judicial Integrity in China, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2684603
24. Knut Benjamin Pissler, Höchstrichterliche Interpretationen als Mittel der Rechtsfortbildung in China (The Role of the Supreme People’s Court in Law-Making by Means of Judicial Interpretations in the People’s Republic of China), http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2700774
25. China’s Court Provide RMB 340 Million in Living Assistance to Those Who Cannot Enforce Judgments, http://www.aaronhalegua.com/new-blog/2016/3/20/vxs3qk2k9wakt6r9k9dj95cml6bwkk
26. Note, Chinese Common Law? Guiding Cases and Judicial Reform, http://harvardlawreview.org/2016/06/chinese-common-law-guiding-cases-and-judicial-reform/
27. Placing Power in the Cage of Law: Judicial Independence in China, Capital University Law Review, Vol. 44, No. 2, 2016, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2776040

28. China’s Socialist Rule of Law Reforms Under Xi Jinping

29. Renu Rana, China’s Information Disclosure Initiative: Assessing the Reforms, China Report, May, 2015 http://chr.sagepub.com/content/51/2/129.refs
30. Surya Deva, Socio-Economic Rights in India and China: Time for Academic Engagement between the Two Economic Giants, Socio-Economic Rights in Emerging Free Markets:  Comparative Insights from India and China, 2016 (Surya Deva, ed.)
31. Zhang Xianchu, The New Round of Civil Law Codification in China, University of Bologna Law Review, [VOL.1:1 2016]
32. Vivienne Bath, Overlapping Jurisdictions and the Resolution of Disputes before Chinese and Foreign Courts. In Andrea Bonomi, Gian Paolo Romano (Eds.), Yearbook of Private International Law: Volume XVII – 2015/2016, (pp. 111-150). Germany: Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt KG.
33. Aaron Halegua, Who Will Represent China’s Workers, US Asia Law Institute Report, supported by the Ford Foundation, https://supremepeoplescourtmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/3e688-cf6ae-haleguawhowillrepresentchina.pdf’s+Workers%3F+(2016).pdf
34. Jerome Cohen and David Wertime, A Crack of Daylight Enters Chinese Court Proceedings, 12 October 2016, https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/10/12/a-crack-of-daylight-enters-chinese-court-proceedings-live-streaming-transparency-reform-doubts/
35. Daniel Salisbury & Christopher Hobbs, Centers of Excellence in East Asia:Encouraging Collaborative Approaches to Nuclear Security, Policy Analysis Brief (Stanley Foundation), October, 2015.
36. George Conk, Claims for Governmental Abuse Strengthened by China Supreme Court and Top Prosecutor, 23 May 2016, http://tortstoday.blogspot.hk/2016/05/claims-for-governmental-abuse.html
37. China – the law of uneven development and the Supreme People’s Court, Otherwise, 2 August 2016, http://blackstonetoday.blogspot.hk/2016/08/china-law-of-uneven-development-and.html
38. Which Chinese cases are most persuasive, 16 September 2016, https://blackstonetoday.blogspot.hk/2016/09/which-chinese-cases-are-most-persuasive.html (“The indispensable Susan Finder”)
39. Brian Love, Christian Helmers, Markus Eberhardt, Patent Litigation in China: Protecting Rights or the Local Economy? Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law, Vol. 18, p. 713, 2016, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2737034
40. Ann E. Rutledge, Who Will Take the Lead in Shaping China’s Securitisation Market Model? SWIFT Institute Working Paper No. 2014-003, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2665975
41. Larry Becker, Between the Judge and the Law — Judicial Independence and Authority with Chinese Characteristics,  essay first presented at the 11th Annual
    Conference of the European China Law Studies Association, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2838035
42. Jean Christopher Mittelstaedt, Re-Uniting What Belongs Together: A Holistic Understanding of Chinese Law, Prepared for the ECLS Annual Conference September 21-23, 2016, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2841217
43. Bjoern Ahl, The Politicization of the Chinese National Judicial Examination (2007-2012), forthcoming, Modern China, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2872473
44. Anthony Li, Centralisation of Power in the Pursuit of Law-based Governance, China Perpectives, #2, 2016, 63-68.
45. Cynthia Estlund, A New Deal for Chinese Workers?  Harvard University Press, 2017, 248
46. Cecily Baskir, Mo Liqun, and Li Ao, Chinese Clinical Education: Globalizing and Localizing, Clinical Legal Education in Asia: Accessing Justice for the Underprivileged, edited Shuvro Prosun Sarker, Palgrave: 2016, 51.
47. June Teufel Dreyer, China’s Political System (Ninth Edition), 2015)
48. Jamie Horsley, Will Engaging China Promote Good Governance? Brookings Institution, 2017.
49. Max Goldberg, Enclave of Ingenuity: The Plan & Promise of the Beijing Intellectual Property Court, https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=ceas_student_work, 2017
50. Gao Fengping, China’s Guiding Cases System as the Instrument to Improve China’s Case Guidance System, which Includes Both Guiding Cases and Typical Cases, International Journal of Legal Information, https://doi.org/10.1017/jli.2017.52, 2017
51. Danny Friedmann, Oscillating from Safe Harbor to Liability: China’s IP Regulation and Omniscient Intermediaries, WORLD INTERMEDIARY LIABILITY MAP, MAPPING INTERMEDIARY LIABILITY TRENDS ONLINE, Oxford University Press, forthcoming, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316991001_Oscillating_from_Safe_Harbor_to_Liability_China’s_IP_Regulation_and_Omniscient_Intermediaries
52. Larry Backer, “Between the Judge and the Law:  Judicial Independence and Authority With Chinese Characteristics, 33 Connecticut Journal of International Law (1):1-41 (2017)
53. Li, Zhiyu (2022) “Specialized Judicial Empowerment,” University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy:
    Vol. 32: Iss. 3, Article 4.
    Available at: https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/jlpp/vol32/iss3/4
54. Gao, Wei, and Lu Xu. “Online Courts in China: A New Hybrid Model for Access to Justice.” China Review, vol. 25, no. 1, 2025, pp. 75–106, https://research.lancaster-university.uk/en/publications/online-courts-in-china-a-new-hybrid-model-for-access-to-justice/.
55. Chen, L., Liu, Z., & Tang, Y. (2022). Judicial Transparency as Judicial Centralization: Mass Publicity of Court Decisions in China. Journal of Contemporary China, 31(137), 726–739. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2021.2010871, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10670564.2021.2010871
56. Georgios Dimitropoulos, International Commercial Courts in the ‘Modern Law of Nature’: Adjudicatory Unilateralism in Special Economic Zones, Journal of International Economic Law, Volume 24, Issue 2, June 2021, Pages 361–379, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgab017
57. Comparative authoritarian law
    Benjamin L. Liebman & Madhav Khosla
    Theoretical Inquiries in Law 26 (2):1-22 (2025)
58. Papagianneas S. Automating Intervention in Chinese Justice: Smart Courts and Supervision Reform. Asian Journal of Law and Society. 2023;10(3):463-489. doi:10.1017/als.2023.5, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/asian-journal-of-law-and-society/article/automating-intervention-in-chinese-justice-smart-courts-and-supervision-reform/8658661A69458B43E1FD4933FAB4F039
59. Bui, Son Ngoc, The Socialist Precedent (April 23, 2019). Cornell International Law Journal , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3376555 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3376555
60. https://www.chinajusticeobserver.com/a/meet-internet-courts-a-tech-incubator-of-chinese-judiciary
61. Zhang, S., Ma, Y., & Wang, C. (2025). Promoting the modernization of China’s commercial mediation regime in the context of the Singapore Convention on Mediation. Asia Pacific Law Review, 33(2), 342–376. https://doi.org/10.1080/10192557.2025.2493693
62. Sze Kiun, J. F. (2022). Beyond transplantation and hybridisation: the distinctiveness of the System of Case Guiding. Peking University Law Journal, 10(1), 75–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/20517483.2022.2133771
63. Nuno Garoupa, Judicial Legitimacy and Citation Patterns under Authoritarianism: The Case of the Macao Court of Final Appeal,  21 U. Pa. Asian L. Rev. 236 (2026), https://doi.org/10.58112/alr.21-2.2
64. KEQI WU* & YIJUN YUAN, COURT INTERVENTION IN INTERNATIONAL
    ARBITRATION: A CHINESE PERSPECTIVE ON THE
    NEW ARBITRATION LAW,
65. Myth or Reality: China-EU Competition of (Ir)Responsible Normative Powers in the EU Neighborhood? [article]
    Gubenko, Stanislav, 6 Found. L. & Int’l Aff. Rev. 59 (2025)
66. Out from the Shadows: Party Documents in Chinese Courts
    Berkeley Journal of International Law, Vol. 43, Issue 1 (2025), pp. 99-158 Liebman, Benjamin L. ; Gao, Eva; Wu, Xiaohan; Stern, Rachel E.; Roberts, Margaret E.
    DOI: 10.15779/Z381J97978
67. Depoliticization and Politicization: The Resilience of Chinese Sike (Diehard) Lawyers’ Movement ,cHarvard Human Rights Journal, Vol. 38, pp. 113-166, Ma, Qin, 38 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 113 (2025)[acknowledgment]
68. Understanding Disputes over Digitalization: A Perspective of Cross-Border Central Bank Digital Currencies,
    Emory International Law Review, Vol. 40, Issue 1 (2025), pp. 35-73,Wang, Heng  [acknowledgment]
69. Prioritization of Environmental Costs in Chinese Insolvency Law: Guiding Case No. 214 of China’s Supreme People’s Court [notes]
    Analysis, Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 37, Issue 3 (November 2025), pp. 609-616
    Li, Xingwei; Wang, Xiaodan, DOI: 10.1093/jel/eqaf023
70. Effective or Symbolic? A Retrospective Look at the Performance of the China International Commercial Court [article]
    Asia Pacific Law Review, Vol. 33, Issue 1 (2025), pp. 1-23
    Moreira, Joao Ilhao; Lin, Si
    DOI: 10.1080/10192557.2024.2385899
71. Promoting the Modernization of China’s Commercial Mediation Regime in the Context of the Singapore Convention on Mediation, Asia Pacific Law Review, Vol. 33, Issue 2 (2025), pp. 342-376
    Zhang, Sheng ; Ma, Yanfei; Wang, Chaoen
    DOI: 10.1080/10192557.2025.2493693
72. Cooperating to Resist: Society and State during China’s COVID Lockdowns, Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, Vol. 35, Issue 4 (2024), pp. 877-924. Qiao, Shitong (acknowledgment)
73. ‘Resolving Doors’ and the CICC’s One-Stop Platform: Reflections on Institutional Design [article]
    Melbourne Journal of International Law, Vol. 25, Issue 2 (December 2024), pp. 343-382
    Yan, Yueming; Hong, Xinhui (acknowldgement)