Rule of Law

Chinese Lawyers’ ‘Original Sin’ — Speech by Lawyer Li Fangping on the 6th China Human Rights Lawyers Day Li Fangping, July 9, 2022 Li Fangping in 2014. Li Fangping started practicing law in China in the mid-1990s, first in Jiangxi and…

The Citizens Movement By Xu Zhiyong, translated by Andréa Worden, June 21, 2022 After being released from prison in July 2017, Xu Zhiyong devoted a year to writing “A Beautiful China” that was posted on his blog. This is Chapter 13 of the…

One Life for One Dream Xu Zhiyong, June 18, 2022 This autobiographical essay was written shortly before his arrest in 2013. It was translated into English and first published in Xu Zhiyong’s collection of essays “To Build a Free China – A…

Announcing the 6th China Human Rights Lawyers Day June 16, 2022 The sixth annual China Human Rights Lawyers Day will be held virtually on July 9, 2022, at 9 a.m. EST (U.S.). In 2017, human rights organizations in the U.S., Taiwan, and…

The Defenders — 20 Years of Human Rights Lawyers in China / 辩护人: 中国人权律师二十年 March 17， 2022 [youtube…

Lawyers’ Struggles for Freedoms in China and the World – A Conversation With Professor Terence Halliday of The American Bar Foundation February 11, 2022 This wide-ranging, fascinating conversation was initially conducted on The American…

IN MEMORY OF ZHANG QING China Change, January 18, 2022 [youtube…

An End-of-Year Reflection on My Disbarment Liang Xiaojun, January 6, 2022 Liang Xiaojun has practiced law in Beijing for twenty years, devoting the last twelve years of his career to human rights cases. He is the director of Beijing…

The Spring Breeze Is Bound to Cause Ripples: A New Year Statement by The China Human Rights Lawyers Group January 1, 2022 In 1925, the 26-year-old poet and political dissident Wen Yiduo (闻一多) wrote in his poem titled “Dead Water”: Here is…

An Appeal to the Chinese Government Regarding Guo Feixiong’s Departure From China To Whom It May Concern in the Government of China: We are a group of scholars in China studies with longstanding interests in the progress of human rights…