Legal Teahouse

Mercy Xie, a Doctor of Juridical Science candidate at Syracuse University, shares her life story as a person with disability and her views on disability rights.  Learn more about her on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeaOESuN7J7i8SA0F2MdkWQ), WeChat (ID: smog_official) or search her name 谢仁慈 Mercy.

John Tan, an Arnold & Porter partner based in Shanghai, discusses his FCPA investigation practice in China. John talks about the FCPA enforcement mechanism, China's national security law's implications on investigation, and China's corporate social credit system. 

Chinese law professor Guo Bing sued Hangzhou wildlife park for its compulsive use of facial recognition.  The court ruled for Prof Guo based on the contract theory, but brushed off the "lawful, proper, and necessary" standard of personal information protection.

Professor Eugene Volokh from UCLA School of Law shared his expertise in discussing the WeChat users' First Amendment challenge to the US government's WeChat ban.

A White House executive order issued on August 6 seeks to ban transactions with TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance.  TikTok and ByteDance sued the government for misusing the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and violating the Fifth Amendment due process.

A Beijing appellate court held e-commerce company Dangdang can't fire its transgender employee for absence without official leave when she, with her direct supervisor's oral approval, took time off to undertake a sex reassignment surgery. 

UCLA APILSA leader Constance Chan talked about why the Asian Pacific Islander community should support the Black Lives Matter movement.  Constance highlighted that the conversation is not a substitute for learning about racism issues directly from Black authors, Black activists, or experts in Asian-Black relations, and she recommended the following resources as a starting point:

Articles

The real reasons the U.S. became less racist toward Asian Americans
Damaged Asian businesses show solidarity with Black Lives Matter protesters
How the killing of Latasha Harlins changed South L.A., long before Black Lives Matter
WeChat Warriors in the Trial of Peter Liang
Yes, We Literally Mean Abolish the Police: Because Reform Won’t Happen: 

Books and movie

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader by Jean Wu
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Just Mercy (movie)
Slavery by Another Name by Douglas Blackmon
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Strangers from a Different Shore by Ronald Takaki
The Color of Success by Ellen Wu

Other resources

UCLA APILSA: https://www.instagram.com/ucla_apilsa/?igshid=72vmx45d4x8a
UCLA BLSA: https://www.instagram.com/uclablsa/?igshid=3p76gsv39xyc
Letters for Black Lives: https://lettersforblacklives.com/
MPD150: https://www.mpd150.com/faq/?fbclid=IwAR2MOi34vAYzxPb7NyrGHuSyTEu1kESjLuEYkPSFIeV2Rs88YI-QFv0MGFA

Communication between Chinese American parents and children

Yale students’ letter to the Chinese American community: https://chineseamerican.org/p/31571
A Chinese American parent's response to the Yale students' letter: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/8VT8aUHDHcb-pmOIztwfFQ
A Harvard student's response to the Chinese American parent's letter: https://chineseamerican.org/p/31656

Steven Pinker, Tariq Ali, and Elif Sarican debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZItW8wPGiY

Trevor Noah's reflection on the riots and looting amongst the Black Lives Matter protests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4amCfVbA_c

Bail Funds sources (from copy and pasting):

The Bail Project: is now bailing out protestors in cities where they have offices. https://bailproject.org

The Colorado Freedom fund is now bailing out protestors in Denver. https://fundly.com/coloradofreedom

Columbus Freedom Fund is now bailing out protestors in Columbus, Ohio. https://www.paypal.me/columbusfreedomfund 

Bail Fund bailing out protestors in Los Vegas, NV: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/vegasfreedomfund

Los Angeles, CA Bail Fund organized by White People 4 Black Lives: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/wp4bl

Some Chinese citizens have been punished for using VPN to circumvent the Great Firewall, an activity that was believed to be legal.

China is ahead of America to move its courts online.  Is this the way to go in the post-pandemic world?