May 27, 2010 | Notes, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 43
Part II of this Note discusses the current state of attorney-client privilege law with respect to corporate communications. It first provides a brief overview of privilege law and introduces the public policy argument that the pursuit of truth in litigation demands...
May 27, 2010 | Lead Articles, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 43
SYMPOSIUM: CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW IN CHINA Nulla poena sine lege is a fundamental principle of criminal law. Its application is closely related to a basic understanding of criminal justice and separation of powers. The 1997 Chinese Criminal Law adopts a modified...
May 27, 2010 | Lead Articles, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 43
SYMPOSIUM: CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW IN CHINA A general perception exists that constitutional review is not a part of modern Chinese jurisprudence. That view is mistaken. The aim of this essay is to show that, while substantial constitutional change has not yet been...
May 27, 2010 | Lead Articles, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 43
SYMPOSIUM: CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW IN CHINA There are great shifts in constitutional thinking taking place today in China among elite Chinese constitutional scholars. Among this group of influential constitutional law scholars, Hu Jintao’s concept of scientific...
May 27, 2010 | Lead Articles, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 43
SYMPOSIUM: CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW IN CHINA Professor Larry Catá Backer organized a superb symposium on Constitutional Review in the People’s Republic of China for the Suffolk University Law Review. The topic is clearly an important one not just in China, but throughout...
May 27, 2010 | Lead Articles, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 43
According to legend, it was Odysseus of Ithaca who devised the plan to end the ten-year Trojan War by presenting to the Trojans a gift in the form of a giant wooden horse. The Greeks left the horse at the gates of Troy and apparently sailed away in an act of...