News from the Centre of Expertise on China and Korea

With the release of issue 3/2025, the most recent publication of the German Journal of Chinese Law has for a third time been made available open access. Published by the Institute in collaboration with the German-Chinese Jurists’ Association and the Sino-German Institute for Legal Studies, the Journal has also featured a new editorial design since the beginning of the year. more

Knut Benjamin Pißler, Head of the Institute’s Centre of Expertise on China and Korea, is the editor of the just-published “Handbuch des chinesischen Zivilrechts”. The handbook is the first comprehensive German-language publication on the newly codified Chinese civil law regime. more

As of October 2023, Knut Benjamin Pißler, Head of the Institute’s Centre of Expertise on China and Korea, will commence a two-year position as Vice-Director at the Sino-German Institute for Law in Nanjing, where he will also assume lecture position sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes, DAAD). more

Knut Benjamin Pißler, who heads the Centre of Expertise on China and Korea at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, and family law judge Thomas von Hippel of the Amtsgericht of Hamburg-Altona, have co-authored a comprehensive new revision of the country report for China of the standard reference work Internationales Ehe- und Kindschaftsrecht mit Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht (International marriage and filiation law including nationality law). The revision is a major update that includes the reforms enacted with the Chinese Civil Code, which entered into force on 1 January 2021. more

Knut Benjamin Pißler, Head of the Centre of Expertise on China and Korea at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, was elected Vice-President of the German-Chinese Jurists‘ Association (DCJV) on 30 November 2021. more