InfoBrief: ChinaLawInfo

Now available to all law faculty and students is ChinaLawInfo, the major online legal database in English for Chinese law.  In fact, you can access the materials in both English (InfoLawChina) and Chinese (ChinaLawInfo).  The Chinese language database is more extensive than the English, but they continue to translate and add materials to InfoLawChina.  For a fee, ChinaLawInfo also offers translation services from Chinese into English for anything you may need.
 
Laws and regulations are the most important sources of law in China.  The database includes all laws adopted by the National People's Congress (NPC) and the NPC Standing Committee from 1949 to the present; administrative regulations promulgated by the State Council from 1949 to the present; and most of the important administrative rules or orders promulgated or approved by the agencies under the State Council and leading  independent agencies. 
 
Court decisions do not carry the same precedential value there as in the U.S. but many are included.  All cases in the database are translated from official sources. The great majority of them come from the Gazette of the Supreme People's Court, and all of them are translated by translators of ChinaLawInfo.
 
This database allows you to search or browse the table of contents of 44 leading Chinese law journals and also official gazettes in Chinese and in some cases in both English and Chinese.  Full text articles are available for only two journals, and generally include only abstracts in English.
 
We are glad to be able to bring this new web resource to researchers here at the Law School.  For assistance in using these materials, please contact your librarian liaison or me. 
 
Xie xie,
 
Pat Court
Associate Law Librarian
pgc1@cornell.edu