With Election Day right around the corner and candidates making their final push to voters, a very select group of people met recently to learn more about how the American political system works. The Peking University Alumni Association – Minnesota (PKUAA-MN) and Tsinghua University Alumni Association – Minnesota (TAA-MN) held a joint seminar on civic …
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China’s Legal System: 2015 Reviews and 2016 Predictions
According to the Lunar Calendar, 2016’s Spring Festival on February 8 marks the end of the Year of the Wooden Sheep and beginning the Year of the Fire Monkey. At this transitional time, Legal Current invited Chang Wang and Christopher Luehr, two Chinese law experts at Thomson Reuters, to review the major legal events and …
- February 10, 2016
- Alex Cook
Books for China: Thomson Reuters Donates Law Books to Chinese Legal Community
Western jurisprudence, particularly American law, has played a key role in China’s modernization and economic reform. American legal tradition and best practices have frequently been used as references in building China’s own legal system. Consequently, China is in need of opportunities to learn and understand American law. To that end, Thomson Reuters has donated many …
- November 4, 2015
- Alex Cook
Thomson Reuters Hosted Magna Carta: History, Law, and Legacy, a Continuing Legal Education Program
On Sept. 18, Thomson Reuters hosted Magna Carta: History, Law, and Legacy, a Continuing Legal Education program at its Eagan, Minn., campus. The program featured a presentation by Dr. Ryan Greenwood, Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of Minnesota Law School. As a leading expert on legal history, Roman and canon …
- September 28, 2015
- Alex Cook
Promoting the Rule of Law by Telling the Story of West Publishing and Thomson Reuters
The following post was written by Chang Wang, chief research and academic officer, Thomson Reuters. In 2000, Professor Hiroshi Narita, then a professor at Tohoku-Gakuin University in Japan, visited Thomson Reuters in Eagan, Minnesota. As a law professor and legal historian, he was very interested in the history of West Publishing. During the next 15 …
- September 10, 2015
- Alex Cook
China’s legal system: 2014 reviews and predictions for 2015
According to the Lunar Calendar, 2015’s Chinese Spring Festival is on February 19, ending the Year of Fire Horse and starting the Year of Wooden Sheep. At this transitional time, Legal Current invites Chang Wang and Nathan H. Madson to review the major legal events and developments in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over …
- February 18, 2015
- Susan Martin
Inside China’s Legal System: A new legal treatise on Chinese law
Thomson Reuters recently received international acknowledgement for a legal treatise on Chinese law authored by two employees. The 350-page volume — Inside China’s Legal System — is a comprehensive overview of the Chinese legal system. The book is co-authored by Chang Wang, chief research and academic officer, and Nathan Madson, who previously worked for Findlaw …
- January 7, 2015
- Susan Martin
First Chinese-language book about Minnesota published by Thomson Reuters
New Tales of the Twin Cities: The History, Law, and Culture of Minnesota, the first Chinese-language book about Minnesota, was just published by Thomson Reuters. The book was authored by Chang Wang, chief research and academic officer at Thomson Reuters and an attorney. Wang is a native of Beijing, a graduate of the University of …
- November 25, 2014
- Susan Martin
Thomson Reuters enduring partnership with the University of Minnesota
In the past few decades, Thomson Reuters has built a mutually beneficial and fruitful partnership with the University of Minnesota, both strategically and tactically. The University of Minnesota Law School is one of the best law schools in the nation and one of Thomson Reuters key customers of print and online Legal products. The Law …
- October 23, 2014
- Susan Martin
Finding ILTA: The “organic” growth of the International Legal Technology Association
By Monica Bay What is ILTA? Like IBM, not everyone knows what the acronym stands for. (IBM is the International Business Machines Corp., based in Armonk, N.Y.) You won’t find the answer if you assume you can find it at ilta.com. Or ilta.org. ILTA is easy to say and runs smoothly off the tongue—maybe that’s …
- August 30, 2016
- Alex Cook