By analyzing influential cases, exploring basic knowledge and examining major issues of law and public finance and private finance in China, this seminar will cover topics from the background of China's financial system, the framework of China's legal system, and issues of banking, securities exchange, insurance, financial regulation and grass-root finance in China. Students will be exposed to up-to-date information and fundamental issues of the transition law and finance experience of China; they will also carry out an international comparison between the socialist market and law system with Chinese characteristics and other counterparts (especially the global capitalist market and law system) from a legal, economic and political perspective.

In order to receive credits, each participant will be required to produce a paper on any topic in consultation with the instructor from a comparative law and finance perspective.

Covered topics will be: an introduction to China and Chinese Culture, with a view to traditional Chinese (herbal) medicine, Chinese language and characters, local religion (Confucianism etc.); legal system in China, main existing system and historic evolution of the institutions; finance system of China, main existing system and historic evolution of the institutions; main issues of law and finance in China, public finance, banking, securities exchange, insurance, bonds, financial regulation, supervision and audit, grass-root finance, private funds and sovereign wealth funds; China and the World in the Context of Global Capitalism.

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Randall Peerenboom, China's Long March toward Rule of Law, University of California, Los Angeles, September 2002.
Stanley B. Lubman, Bird in A Cage—Legal Reform in China after Mao, Stanford University Press.
David Smith & ZHU Guobin, China and the WTO: Going West, Thomson Sweet & Maxwell Press, Ocotober 2001.
Nicholas R. Lardy, Integrating China into the Global Economy, Brookings Institution, 2002.