CGCP Celebrates 5th Anniversary

The CGCP celebrates its 5th anniversary by launching a video and welcoming ten new Advisers and Honorary Advisers.

The CGCP is delighted to celebrate its fifth anniversary by unveiling a brand-new CGCP Video outlining the CGCP’s great work and achievements, available in English and Chinese through the CGCP website.

In further recognition of the CGCP’s incredible growth over the last five years, the CGCP proudly welcomes ten new Advisers and Honorary Advisers, including the Hon. Lady Justice Njoki Ndungu of the Supreme Court of Kenya, Ko-Yung Tung, former Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank, and Judge Toshiaki Iimura, former Chief Judge of the Intellectual Property High Court of Japan.

Join the CGCP at the 20th U.S.-China Legal Exchange Conference at Stanford University TODAY.
CGCP Founder and Director Dr. Mei Gechlik and CGCP Adviser James McManis will present at the 20th U.S.-China Legal Exchange Conference, which is led by the U.S. Department of Commerce and China’s Ministry of Commerce, and hosted by Stanford Law School’s Program in Law, Science and Technology.  Their panel is entitled Judicial Reform, Including Establishment of Specialized IP Courts and Use of Case Law as Precedent; Judicial Explanation on Patent Law, featuring both speakers, WANG Chuang, Deputy Chief Judge of the IPR Tribunal, Supreme People’s Court of China, and SLS professor Lisa Larrimore Ouellette.

New commentaries and Guiding Case Surveys™ are now available on the CGCP website.
Three new commentaries are now available on the CGCP website, including:

  • The Role of Precedent in the United States: How do Precedents Lose Their Binding Effect? The Hon. John M. Walker, Jr., Senior Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (EN|CH)
  • Review of Taiwan’s Precedent System and Brief Discussion of Mainland China’s Case Guidance System, LÜ Tailang, President, Judges Academy (Taiwan) (CH) (English coming soon)
  • Case Law in a Legal System Without Binding Precedent: The French Example, Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, Founder and Managing Partner, Laurent Cohen-Tanugi Avocats; Visiting Scholar, Stanford Law School (EN) (Chinese coming soon)

In addition, Issue No. 2 of the Guiding Cases Surveys—featuring the first-ever published analyses of subsequent cases that explicitly refer to Guiding Cases—is now available on the CGCP website in English and Chinese.

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