China Celebrates World Intellectual Property Day – April 26, 2008
A (slightly belated) warm welcome to a new China law blog, maintained by the international department at Grandall law firm here in Beijing. The international department is essentially a bunch of my former colleagues from Lehman, Lee & Xu who re-grouped at Grandall following what I […]

The Communist Tax Lawyer: A news, research and discussion platform for monitoring the evolution of Communist and ex-Communist countries to market economies.

The latest from Chris Devonshire-Ellis is now up and running. Not long after getting to China, I recall talking to an expat lawyer in Vietnam. After hearing some of his war stories, I noted […]

Republican congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey used a meeting with international human rights group Reporters Without Borders last week to lobby for passage of a bill aimed at curtailing U.S. tech companies' participation in foreign countries' internet censorship schemes. Smith is hoping that the bill reaches the floor of the house and passes before […]

The May Day holiday is now officially over, so it's back to work for all, even lazy bloggers like myself.
First up, something from U.S. politics that has had me putting on the hat of a naive young idealist of late. Weird position for me to be in, I can tell you that.
In short, I've […]