The Journal Of Comparative Law

The Journal of Comparative Law (the JCL) is a scholarly resource for comparative legal studies in a broad sense of that term. It publishes material on all aspects of the field, in all types of legal traditions and in all geographical areas, be it theoretical, historical, modern, general, regional, or country-specific.

Analytical, rather than purely descriptive, work is encouraged. Contextual, theoretical, and interdisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome, as are analyses of the practical aspects of comparative legal studies in a globalized world.

 The JCL publishes a wide range of material. In addition to articles, notes, review articles, and book reviews, it also contains reports of cases, case-notes assessments, translations of documents (particularly those difficult to access and those in non-Western languages, or languages with relatively few speakers), annotated bibliographies and notes on recent material of interest.

The JCL is peer reviewed. It is published twice a year, in March and September.

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CORRESPONDENCE

Correspondence should be sent to one or both of the Editors, William E. Butler at web15@psu.edu, Michael Palmer at mp@soas.ac.uk.

FOUNDERS

William E. Butler, Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University; University College, University of London (UCL) (Emeritus)

Nicholas H.D. Foster, formerly SOAS, University of London

Michael Palmer, SOAS, University of London (Emeritus); Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London; Cheng Yu Tung Visiting Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong

HONORARY ADVISORS

William Twining, University College, University of London (UCL) (Emeritus)

Philip Wood, CBE, QC

EDITORS

William E. Butler, Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University; University College, University of London (UCL) (Emeritus)

Michael Palmer, SOAS, University of London (Emeritus); Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London; Cheng Yu Tung Visiting Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong

EDITORIAL BOARD

William E. Butler, Dickinson School of Law, Penn State University; University College, University of London (UCL) (Emeritus)

Michele Graziadei, Università di Torino

Oleksiy Kresin, V. M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law, National Academy of Science of Ukraine

Maria Federica Moscati, University of Sussex

Michael Palmer, SOAS, University of London (Emeritus); Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London; Cheng Yu Tung Visiting Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong

EDITORIAL COUNCIL

William Alford, Harvard University

Abdullahi An-Na’im, Emory University

William Ballantyne, Serle Court Chambers

Stathis Banakas, University of East Anglia

John Bell, University of Cambridge (Emeritus)

Albert Chen, University of Hong Kong

Donald Clarke, George Washington University

Alison Conner, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (Emerita)

Roger Cotterrell, Queen Mary University of London

Aleksei Egorov, Vitebsk State University

William Ewald, University of Pennsylvania

Fu Hualing, University of Hong Kong

Tania Groppi, Università degli Studi de Siena

Wael Hallaq, Columbia University

Yevhen Kharytonov, National University “Odessa Law Academy”

Pierre Legrand, L’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Peter Leyland, London Metropolitan University (Emeritus)

Dmytryi Lukianov, National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine

David Nelken, Università degli Studi di Macerata; University of Cardiff; King’s College London

Esin Örücü, University of Glasgow (Emerita); Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (Emerita)

Akmal Saidov, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan

Geoffrey Samuel, University of Kent

Martin Shapiro, University of California Berkeley

Ann Stewart, University of Warwick

Brian Tamanaha, Washington University in St. Louis

Oleksandr Tykhomyrov, National Academy of Internal Affairs of Ukraine

Chao Xi, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Maria Zakharova, Kutafin Moscow State Legal Academy

FORMER EDITORS

Nicholas H.D. Foster, formerly SOAS University of London, editor 2006–2007

Camilla Baasch Andersen, University of Western Australia, editor 2006-2007

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CONTENTS

VOLUME XVII, ISSUE 2 (2022)

Special Part:
Issues in Administrative Justice
Edited by Michael Palmer, Xi Chao & Ling Zhou

Introduction
Michael Palmer, Xi Chao & Ling Zhou

The Development of the Due Process Principle in post-2013 China
Björn Ahl

Judicial Review and EU Law Reviewed: The Independent Panel’s Report on Judicial Review (CP 407) and the Government’s Consultation Document on Judicial Review Reform (CP 408)
Patrick Birkinshaw

Mandarins v. Mandarins: Procuratorate-initiated Administrative Public Interest Litigation in China
Ding Chunyan

Supporting the Marginalized in Zoom Justice: Administrative Justice in an Australian Tribunal Context
Jill Hunter & Linda Pearson

Why Not American-Style Judicial Review? Judicial Power and the Constitutional Interpretation System in China’s Northern Warlords Government Era (1912–1928)
Xiankui Mou

Complaints and Reviews in Homelessness Cases in England
Patricia Ng

Judicial Review of Administrative Rules in China: Incremental Expansion of Judicial Power
Shiling Xiao & Yang Lin

Adjudication of Environmental Administrative Disputes in China
Yuhong Zhao

Administered Divorce in China: Reflecting on the 2020 Civil Code’s Restrictive Turn
Ling Zhou

ARTICLES
The Human Embryo as a ‘Special Property of Personality Implications’: A Study of Frozen Embryo Disputes under China’s Civil Code
Ding Chunyan

Liability for Accidents Revisited
Geoffrey Samuel

Resolving Online Content Disputes in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Legal and Technological Solutions in Comparative Perspective
Faye Fangfei Wang

Review Articles
Should Comparative Law be Reconstructed? Review Article on Valcke (2018) Comparing Law: Comparative Law as Reconstruction of Collective Commitments (Cambridge University Press)
Geoffrey Samuel

Interdisciplinarity and Legal Scholarship: Are Comparatists in a Lonely Place? Review Article on Husa (2022) Interdisciplinary Comparative Law: Rubbing Shoulders with the Neighbours or Standing Alone in a Crowd (Elgar)
Geoffrey Samuel

REVIEW
Ernest Lim (2020) Sustainability and Corporate Mechanisms in Asia (Cambridge University Press)
Xi Chao