04.20
I found out an interesting fact today. The blogger behind A Modern Lei Feng is a lawyer. I would never have guessed it.1 By my count, that makes four China blogs on my blogroll authored by lawyers…In addition to AMLF there are the obvious China Law Blog; China Law Prof Blog; Chinese Law and Politics and of course there’s yours truly (although with a name like the black China hand, one also wouldn’t think I was a lawyer). Anyway, that got me thinking … how many China blogs out there are penned by lawyers (and more specifically why are we blogging)? Ten minutes of searching and I’ve found the following:
Update:
There is quite a diversity of styles and subjects on all these sites and it would be interesting to build a list of them all. So if anyone knows or runs into any other China blogs authored by lawyers please send me the link.
- …and I absolutely agree with his observation on interning at a Chinese law firm. I interned at East Associates in Beijing during the summer after 1L. It was interesting but absolutely useless in helping secure legal work in China after graduation. [↩]
Check out Boulder2Beijing. We’re both Colorado attorneys in Beijing for a year while we attend BeiDa’s LL.M. program.
How is the LLM program? Do you think it will help getting a China based or China related job?
in the interests of full disclosure: yes, I did go to (and graduate) law school, but I am actually a diplomat, not a lawyer.
It already has for my classmates and I. More importantly, I think, we now know many of the academic experts in the field, which to me is invaluable.
I am dismayed that my site didn’t come up during your 10 minute search (especially so close to Earth Day), but alas, I am forced to self-promote.
Sorry about that but thanks for the holla back … besides a little self-promotion is bad every now and then.
I would have hoped that my blog should have appeared in 10 minutes of searching. But alas, it only does when you google “China law business blog”.
I prefer to write on broader topics than just law–law is interesting, but it is only so interesting. Where the law intersects with society and business, that what’s I think is fascinating. Perhaps it was because I was a shehuisui (sociology) major, who almost got a PhD instead of a J.D.