On 20 June 2023, the Finnish China Law Center will hold an online mini seminar on “The Application of the Proportionality Principle by Chinese Courts” at 10:15-11:45 Helsinki time (9:15-10:45 CEST / 15:15-16:45 CST). The event will be chaired by Björn Ahl, Professor and Chair of Chinese Legal Culture at the University of Cologne and President of the European China Law Studies Association. The seminar programme can be found here. The seminar is free and open to all. Zoom link for the event will be sent to registered participants. We kindly ask you to register by 18 June by c ..read more

The result of the Call for Papers for the 17th Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association has been sent to all participants. If you have submitted an abstract/proposal, please check your email inbox and spam/junk folder just in case the email has been filtered there. A large number of abstracts/proposals were submitted, and we were very impressed with the quality and diversity of the papers we received. We would like to extend our gratitude to all the participants for their interest and contributions. If you have been accepted to present your paper, congratulations! W ..read more

On 6 April 2023, the Finnish China Law Center will hold an online seminar on the topic of ‘Women’s Rights and Law in China’ at 14:00 – 15:30 Helsinki time. The event is part of the Center’s new mini seminar series on topical issues of Chinese law. The speakers include Pia Eskelinen, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of Turku, and Sijie Ma, Researcher at the China Center for Human Rights Studies, Northwest University of Political Science and Law, and visiting researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki. The seminar will be chaired by Johanna Niemi, Dean of t ..read more

On 4 April 2023, University of Helsinki Chinese Studies and the Finnish China Law Center will hold an online seminar on “Chinese Companies Abroad and the Host Country’s Laws: the Case of Dirty Industries in Serbia“. The event will be moderated by Julie Yu-Wen Chen, Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Helsinki. Time: Tuesday 4 April, 14:00-15:30 Helsinki Time (13:00-14:30 CEST) Venue: Online. Please register before Friday 31 March at https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/122724/lomake.html to receive link. The activities of Chinese companies abroad are an integral part of the robu ..read more

With the Year of the Rabbit just around the corner, the Finnish China Law Center would like to wish a happy Chinese New Year to our Chinese, Nordic and global friends and partners alike. During the last year, the Center has successfully organized several online and hybrid events on a wide variety of topics in Chinese Law. We would like to express sincere gratitude to all the co-organizers, chairs, speakers, commentators and participants for having supported us in 2022. In 2023, the Center will continue to organize diverse events and activities with the aim of promoting research and education i ..read more

The Centre would like to inform our readers of the 17th Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association (ECLS) which will take place during 20- 22 September 2023. The conference will be hosted and organized by the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki in cooperation with the Finnish China Law Center. The event will take place at the Main Building of the University of Helsinki, Unioninkatu 34, 00100 Helsinki, Finland. Since the ECLS’s main objective is to encourage comparative and interdisciplinary research on Chinese law, the conference will be a platform for scholars and ..read more

On 17 November 2022, the Finnish China Law Center held an online seminar on the topic of ‘The Social Credit System in China ‘. The event is part of the Center’s mini seminar series on topical issues of Chinese law. The event began with a presentation on “Debating the Legality of Social Credit in China – A Review of Chinese Legal Scholarship” by Björn Ahl, Professor and Chair of Chinese Legal Culture at the University of Cologne and President of the European China Law Studies Association. Björn explained that Chinese legal scholars conceptualize the social credit system (SCS) as an em ..read more

The Third Chinese Finnish Colloquium on Criminal Law will be held online tomorrow 25 November at 8: 40 am (Helsinki Time). The event is jointly organized by University of Helsinki Faculty of Law and Peking University Law School. Please see the programme here ..read more

On 29 October 2022, Professor Kimmo Nuotio, Board Member of the Finnish China Law Center held a guest lecture on Methodology of Criminal Law Theory: Art, Politics or Science? as part of the PKU Law School Distinguished Global Faculty Lecture series. The lecture discussed the role of the general doctrines of penal liability in the criminal law theorising. In 2021, Professor Nuotio published the edited volume “Methodology of Criminal Law Theory: Art, Politics or Science?”  together with Professor Shin Matsuzawa. In his presentation, Professor Nuotio told the story behind thi ..read more

On 8 September, the Finnish China Law Center held an informal meeting between Björn Ahl, Professor and Chair of Chinese Legal Culture at the University of Cologne and students and researched at the Faculty of Law. This talk was titled as ‘Why and How Do We Study Chinese Law in Our Times’. The talk highlighted various topics relevant to the students interested in Chinese law: current challenges, the features of Chinese legal system, and many aspects of academic cooperation between Western universities and China. Not least due to China’s zero-Covid strategy, the loss of physical access to Mainl ..read more