European China Law Studies

About ECLS

The legal situation in China has been a focal point of debate among foreign investors, politicians and human rights groups for decades, and yet there are only comparatively few academics worldwide who are really involved in the subject. Those who are sometimes appear to know little about what the others are doing, due to a lack of efficient academic networks and platforms in the field.
In 2006, on the initiative of Professor Marina Svensson (Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University), a group of some twenty researchers from all over Europe, and some of them from the U.S.A., Australia and the PRC, convened in Mölle (Sweden) to explore the untapped potential for mutual exchange, joint research and a European network of China Law Studies. After three days of lively discussion, the convenors shared the view that a European China Law Studies Association (ECLS) was a desideratum within the landscape of academic networks and associations in Europe.
At the end of August 2007 the Association's first annual conference took place at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg at which 60 jurists, researchers and student participants met to discuss the latest developments in Chinese law.
The sixth annual conference is scheduled to take place in Paris on September 28 and 29, 2011 under the heading "Law and Justice: China's Practices in a Global Context". A corresponding call for papers is available at the bottom of this page.

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• Last update: 30 Jun. 2011
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