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Beijing Law Review (BLR) is an international refereed journal dedicated to the latest advancements in law. The goal of this journal is to keep a record of the state-of-the-art research and promote the research work in law and related disciplines. All the manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rig…
Charis Papacharalambous
Collective agency is resurfacing within International Criminal Law (ICL) discourse; its genealogical traces can be found in socio-legal contexts like in systemic theories of liability, victimization-centered approaches and criminal policy models transforming…
James B. Jacobs
The jury trial, which is a hallmark of the Anglo-American adversary system, requires close attention to the evidence that it is permissible for the lay jurors to hear. No evidentiary issue has proved more contentious than the admissibility of witnesses’, espe…
Yao Huang, Mingming Huang
The Beibu Gulf (Gulf of Tonkin) is one of the main fishing grounds for both China and Vietnam. The Sino-Vietnamese Agreement on Fishery Cooperation in the Beibu Gulf is an important legal instrument to effectively manage and conserve fishery resources in the…
Yang Yang
The environmental crisis is one of three major crises to human’s development. But there are a series of issues in present for environmental law education of college students, such as this course, which are low offered and lack of sustainability, colleges and…
Christopher J. Clugston
This article analyses the principle of international exhaustion —the doctrine that sales in a foreign country extinguish intellectual property rights. Many developed countries have pushed the international community not to recognize international exhaustion,…
Peter Emerson
The court of law is often adversarial; the more usual question, after all, is binary: guilty or not guilty? The parliament which makes the law, however, need not subject complex questions to dichotomous judgements, or a series of dichotomies: indeed, the corr…
Verica Trstenjak
The principle of primacy of the EU law has been in force for almost 50 years and belongs to the fundamental principles of EU law. It signifies that in case of a conflict between EU law and the law of the Member States, the EU law prevails. Its fundamental goa…
Olga Kucher
Looking at the People ’ s Republic of China (PRC) reforms it is necessary to mention that they were not resulted from foreign experts or from other countries experience they were a result of a long term Chinese strategy. This strategy includes such aspects as…
Emily Lou
New Zealand capital markets currently do not serve retail investors well, creating investor skepticism regarding participation. A recent Reader’s Digest survey rated financial advisers among the least trustworthy of professions. This article maps the legal im…
Adrian Sgarbi
When normative authorities (that is to say, “Legislators”) assume the task of assigning the meaning of normative texts, they use, fundamentally, two techniques: these are called “interpretative laws” and “legislative definitions”. In this study, relating to t…
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Beijing Law Review (BLR) is an international refereed journal dedicated to the latest advancements in law. The goal of this journal is to keep a record of the state-of-the-art research and promote the research work in law and related disciplines. All the manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rig… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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