The quarterly appearing "Zeitschrift für Chinesisches Recht"/“Journal of Chinese Law“ (ZChinR/J.ChineseL.) was first established in 1994 by Matthias Steinmann, the German Vice-Director of the Deutsch-Chinesischen Institute für Rechtswissenschaft [Sino-German Institute for Legal Studies] of the Universities of Göttingen und Nanjing (PR China), in order to provide members of the Deutsch-Chinesischen Juristenvereinigung [the German-Chinese Jurists’ Association] with current information on Chinese civil law, business law, and trade law. Since 2004 the publication has carried the name "Zeitschrift für Chinesisches Recht"/“Journal of Chinese Law“.
The ZChinR/J.ChineseL. is the only ongoing publication in western languages addressing Chinese law. The ZChinR/J.ChineseL. publishes detailed reports and analyses in the section titled "Aufsätze". Current legal developments are reported in "Kurze Beiträge". In the section “Dokumentationen" one finds translations of the most important new Chinese laws. Additionally, the ZChinR/J.ChineseL. regularly publishes conference reports and reviews of books on Chinese law.
The ZChinR/J.ChineseL. is published by the German-Chinese Jurists’ Association in cooperation with the Sino-German Institute for Legal Studies under the editorship of the current German Vice-Director, Rebecka Zinser
(Rebecka Zinser). An advisory board comprising Dr. Björn Ahl (China-EU School of Law, Beijing) and Dr. Knut Benjamin Pißler (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law) assists the editorship in the preparation of the ZChinR/J.ChineseL.. The Journal is distributed at no additional cost to members of the German-Chinese Jurists’ Association. Members may also download the latest issues of the journal as a PDF document through the association's website (www.dcjv.org) under the menu option "ZChinR". Non-members can read the complete text of older issues of the ZChinR/J.ChineseL. under the menu option "Archiv".

