Chinese law neither generally prohibits nor expressly permits surrogacy. As there has been a massive underground surrogacy market in the country, surrogacy lawsuits have occurred from time to time. Chinese courts are called to decide a number of disputed issues regarding validity of surrogacy...

The Interim Provisions on Administration of Clinical Application of Human Organ Transplant Technology were promulgated by the Ministry of Health in March 2006 as China's first piece of national legislation in the field of organ transplants. This article firstly reviews the legislative background...

This article examines the lack of information transparency on the part of the Chinese government as revealed in the COVID-19 outbreak. Based on the evidence of the lack of information transparency in the initial stage of this public health emergency, the article reviews how the Chinese public...

This article presents the first empirical evidence on the Chinese judicial assessment of pain and suffering damages for wrongful death. Drawing upon 1,225 Chinese judicial decisions of medical negligence resulting in a patient’s wrongful death, it investigates the empirical effects of various...