InfoBrief: Chinese Law Databases

With China as an ever-growing force in the world, the Law Library wants to enable Cornell researchers to find the text of Chinese laws and regulations in English.  You are encouraged to try out the two services we are previewing this month.

        Westlaw China at http://en.westlawchina.com/

         LawInfoChina  at http://www.lawinfochina.com/   in English

        And its counterpart:  ChinaLawInfo at http://vip.chinalawinfo.com/    in Chinese
 

As a civil law country, China relies heavily on laws and regulations, and that is what is available on these services in English.  Because most users around the world are looking at China through a business lens, these services have a strong focus on corporate law, finance, arbitration, patent law, and the like.  If you can read Mandarin, you will be glad to know that both services have caselaw and journal articles, as well as laws and regulations, in Chinese.

Please contact me or your library liaison with your thoughts about the China databases, how they will be beneficial to you and your students, and which one you would prefer to use.  The Law Library would like to subscribe to one of the databases by the time school begins in August.  Let me know if I can provide a closer look or further information on the China law databases.

Xie xie,

Pat Court
Associate Law Librarian
pgc1@cornell.edu