China: Third Tort Law Draft Published for Comment

The National People's Congress has published and is now accepting public comments on the draft tort law - a chapter in China's Civil Code. This, the third official discussion draft, will soon be taken up by the NPC. It is a statement of basic parameters - not an operational statute like the State Compensation Law or the Product Quality Laws.

The new draft can be found HERE (in Chinese). Comments on Greenlawblog are HERE.

My translation, with Wang Zhu, of the second draft was prepared for the ALI-Renmin University conference in July 2009. It is available on SSRN: Tort Liability Law of the People's Republic of China (2d official discussion draft December 21, 2008), as is my translation of the first draft and introductory essay, which appeared in the Fordham International Law Journal:

A New Tort Code Emerges in China: An Introduction to the Discussion and a Translation of Chapter 8 - Tort Law of the Official Discussion Draft of the Proposed Revised Civil Code.