This Week in Asian Law
Yuan Gao
This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law (April 28-May 4): China's Supreme People’s Court issues rules for determining whether to give prisoners a sentence reduction or parole release if they have failed to pay fines that were part of their sentence; Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal says courts have no jurisdiction over the city’s National Security Committee; Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announces that 49 countries have joined the effort to craft voluntary international rules for artificial intelligence; South Korea’s legislature orders an independent investigation of the fatal 2022 Halloween stampede in Seoul; a Taipei courts hears final arguments in the case of a transgender man trying to legally change his gender without undergoing surgery.

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law (April 28-May 4): China's Supreme People’s Court issues rules for determining whether to give prisoners a sentence reduction or parole release if they have failed to pay fines that were part of their sentence; Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal says courts have no jurisdiction over the city’s National Security Committee; Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announces that 49 countries have joined the effort to craft voluntary international rules for artificial intelligence; South Korea’s legislature orders an independent investigation of the fatal 2022 Halloween stampede in Seoul; a Taipei courts hears final arguments in the case of a transgender man trying to legally change his gender without undergoing surgery.