The central aim of this work is to examine the applicable trust law in the People's Republic of China. This examination takes place against the backdrop of Anglo-Saxon trust regulations. In addition, the fiduciary administrative trust under German law is included as the basis of the examination. The core of this work is the Chinese solution to factual issues and conflicts of interest arising from the fiduciary granting of legal rights.

The creation of a civil code in the Peoples' Republic of China has been underway for quite some time. Debates have arisen within this process, one of which relates to the manner in which personality rights should be included in the codification. The issue of whether a general personality right for legal entities should be included in the civil code has proven especially controversial.
This work on the personality right under private law in the People's Republic of China focuses on the current and possible future scope of the protection offered under the personality right. On the one...

In 2008 the Supreme People's Court (SPC) has promulgated the "Regulations on the Cause of Civil Action." The promulgation of the Regulations has significance in various regards. It clearly signals a new approach of the SPC to systemize and compile the status quo of the Chinese civil law system. The research compiled in this book is therefore going to the roots of the notion of law in China and to the relationship between claims arising from substantive law and the procedural arrangement to enforce these claims in civil procedure law.

The following article provides a comprehensive analysis of the Tort Law of the Peoples Republic of China. For many years, Chinese Tort Law has been a controversial issue among Chinese legal scholars. This article examines the status quo of the discourse in the literature and provides specific illustrations of how general Tort principles such as causation, negligence and damages are applied in Chinese courts. Since the availability of Chinese case law is limited and many opinions lack reasoning, the article analyses representative cases to provide a basic understanding of how Tort Law...

Die Europaische Union rangiert mit einem Investitionsvolumen von uber 5 Milliarden USD unter den wichtigsten Handelspartnern Chinas. Mit zunehmender Verflechtung Chinas im Weltmarktgefuge und der Internationalisierung der Markte steigt derweil das Potential an Wirtschaftsstreitigkeiten stetig an. In der Vergangenheit bevorzugten auslandische Investoren zur Beilegung von Streitigkeiten uberwiegend chinesische und internationale Schiedsgerichte, die im Vergleich zu chinesischen Volksgerichten als besonders neutrale Instanzen geschatzt wurden.

Die Arbeit leistet einen Beitrag zur...