Private law in the People's Republic of China has recently gone through a period of major renewal, culminating in the enactment of the new Chinese Civil Code. In contrast, private law in Hong Kong continues to be developed mostly incrementally by the courts, following the common law tradition of only occasional statutory reform. As civil law jurisdictions, Macao and Taiwan also each have their distinctive approach to private law reform.
With a focus on the law of obligations, the Obligations Lab Asia of CUHK LAW's Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law (CCTL) is organising a Conference on Private Law in Greater China: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow to be held on 10 May 2024 (hybrid mode). The conference aims to identify how private law scholarship can support and promote the modernisation of law in Greater China. It also seeks to explore to what extent cross-pollination between the private law systems of the four Chinese jurisdictions is possible, necessary and desirable.
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