On November 22nd, 2022, Harris Bricken attorney, Jonathan Bench (Utah), met with Olayimiki Oyebanji, a DAO legal expert from Nigeria. The two lawyers talked about their experiences with DAO’s, the DAO projects on which they have worked, and the
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SPC Reports on Anti-monopoly and Anti-unfair Competition Cases
On 17 Nov. 2022, the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) held a press conference to release details of the anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition cases dealt with by the people’s courts in recent years.
The highlights of the press conference are…
China's Ministry of Commerce Introduces Scale of E-commerce Market
On 16 Nov. 2022, the Ministry of Commerce released the China E-commerce Report (2021), which introduced the situation of China’s e-commerce market in 2021.
The highlights of the report are summarized below.
1. In 2021, the scale of China’s…
China Submits Position Paper on Regulating AI’s Military Applications
On 16 Nov. 2022, LI Song, Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs of China attended the 2022 Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) held in Geneva, Switzerland, and submitted the Position Paper of the…
First Time in China: Teacher Accused of Child Molestation Being Banned for Lifetime from Jobs Related to Minors
On 15 Nov. 2022, in the juvenile court of Haidian Primary People’s Court of Beijing, a defendant surnamed Wang, was given a prison sentence for the crime of child molestation and was banned for life from any occupation that had…
Choosing the Jurisdiction for Your China Contract Disputes
I love when blog posts come pre-written. In cleaning out old emails today I found one from one of my law firm’s international dispute resolution lawyers to a Canadian client’s in-house lawyer who had proposed writing a contract that would…
Chinese Gao Xiaoli and Sun Xiangzhuang Elected Judges of UN Appeals Tribunal and Dispute Tribunal
On 15 Nov. 2022, the election of judges of the UN Appeals Tribunal and Dispute Tribunal was held at the 77th UN General Assembly.
According to the recommendation from the UN Internal Justice Council(ICJ):
- Gao Xiaoli from China’s Supreme
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Christmas from the legal perspective
One of the main holidays for all Christians is Christmas. Christmas is a symbol of renewal and union with God. The Catholic Church celebrates this holiday on December 25 – 26, and the Orthodox Church on January 7.
In this…
Happy Holidays from Harris Bricken!
We wish all of our readers the very best this holiday season.
Whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, Festivus, or something else, we hope you can kick back and enjoy this wonderful time of the year.
Happy holidays!…
Law Pod UK latest episode: The most significant cases of 2022
In our final episode of the year, Rosalind English, Lucy McCann and Jonathan Metzer discuss some of the most important judgments that have been handed down in the last twelve months. The recording of this episode took place a…