Hamburg Lecture Series on Chinese Law

In the “Hamburg Lecture Series on Chinese Law” a series of guest lectures from notable legal scholars and legal practitioners engaged in research stays at the Hamburg Institute provides insight into additional legal fields under development in the People’s Republic of China and which are thus attracting great international interest.

Previous Lectures:
"Law and Law Enforcement in the Chinese Business World"
Joint conference hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, the OAV German Asia Pacific Business Association and the German-Chinese Lawyers Association (DCJV)
Date: Friday 10 September 2010 - 9.30 to 18.00
A conference report is available here.

"Corporate Governance & Directors` Duties in China"
Speaker: Prof. Dr. LIU Junhai, Research Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Social Science, Professor an der Renmin University in Beijing
Date: Monday 28 Juni 2010 – 17.00

"Settlement of Commercial Disputes in China: Arbitration v. Litigation"
Speaker: Professor Dr. XU Guojian, Professor at the Jiaotong University in Shanghai and founding partner of the firm Boss & Young (Shanghai)

"The Uncertain Direction of China's Law Reforms"
Speaker: Professor Dr. Stanley Lubman, University of California (Berkeley)
Date: Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Place: Confucius Institute at the University of Hamburg 06.10.2009 , 19:00

"China-Afternoon" on current developments in the field of international private law and anti-trust law in the Peopls's Repulic of China
Speakers: Professor Dr. HAN Shiyuan, Tsinghua Universität, Beijing, Professor Dr. DU Tao, Fudan University, Shanghai, and Dr. MAO Xiaofei, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing
Date: Monday, 31 March 2009 - 17.00

"Introduction to the New Conflict Rules for Foreign-related Contracts in China
-- Judicial Interpretation by the Chinese Supreme Court"
Speaker: Professor Dr. LU Song, Director, Institute of Internatiional Law, China Foreign Affairs University
Date: Monday, 31 March 2008 - 17.00

"Filling the gaps in pre-incorporation contracts in China:
a view from the law and economics perspective"
Speaker: Professor Dr. Charles Zhen QU, City University of Hong Kong
Date: Monday, 27 August 2007 – 17.00

“The Ecology of Chinese Corporate Governance”
Speaker: Professor Dr. Donald Clarke, George Washington University Law School
Date: Monday, 30 July 2007 – 17.00

"Issues surrounding the drafting of China’s Anti-Monopoly Law"
Speaker: Professor Dr. WANG Xiaoye, Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Date: Wednesday, 20 June 2007 - 17.00

"EU-China Investment Relations: A Critical Appraisal"
Speaker: Professor Dr. SHAN Wenhua, Xi'an Jiaotong University
Date: Tuesday, 10 April 2007 – 17.00

"Legal Uncertainty in Foreign Investment in China: Causes and Management"
Speaker: Professor Dr. Stanley Lubman, University of California (Berkeley)
Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2006 - 18.00

"NPO Governance - Recent Developments in Countries Around the World: Experiences with the American Law Institute Project on NPO Governance, Regulatory Reform in Japan and the Ongoing Debate in China"
Speaker: Professor Dr. Karla W. Simon, Catholic University of America, International Center for Civil Society Law
Date: Tuesday, 30 May 2006 – 18.00

"Einige Probleme bei der Gesetzgebung zum Sachenrechtsgesetz der VR China"
Speaker: Prof. Dr. SUN Xianzhong, Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Date: Monday, 31 October 2005 – 17:00

"Das geplante Anti-Monopolgesetz: Probleme und Perspektiven"
Speaker: Prof. Dr. FANG Xiaomin, German-Chinese Jurists’ Association, Nanjing
Date: Monday, 25 July 2005 – 17:00

"Overview of M&A in China: Legal Framework and Case Analysis"
Speaker: Prof. Dr. XU Guojian, Jiaotong University, Shanghai; Senior-Partner, Boss & Young, Shanghai
Date: Monday, 25 July 2005 – 18:00

"Chinese Financial Laws and their Systematic Environment"
Speaker: Prof. WU Zhipan, Vice President of the University of Peking
Date: Monday, 6 June 2005 – 17:00

"Risiken der chinesischen Finanzkonglomerate und deren rechtliche Regulierung"
Speaker: Dr. DING Ning, University of Peking
Date: Monday, 26 July 2004 – 17:00

"Fragen der Zivilrechtsreform in China"
Speaker: Prof. Dr. MI Jian, Chinese University of Politics and Law
Date: Wednesday, 15 January 2003 – 17:00

"Der Corporate Governance-Kodex der Volksrepublik China"
Speaker: Knut Benjamin Pißler, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Date: Monday, 28 October 2002 – 17:00

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Further Information

The Development of Civil Law in the People’s Republic of China
European China Law Studies
Korea und China

Project Leader

Knut Benjamin Pißler   pissler@mpipriv.de
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