Legislative learning and compilation of the Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China. Theoretical issues relating to the general Part of Civil Law. Contractual liability. Indirect liability for tort by ISP. Tort liability of third-party in breach of contract. Compensation of spiritual damages. Theories and legislation on real right. Legal issues on classified norms of state-owned assets. Issues relating to marriage agreement. Legislative issues on the system of husband-wife property. Legal issues of acting mother. Conflict in systems of adoption. Amendments to company law and investment to create business, legal issues relating to the law of group corporations. Civil law issues relating to enterprise merger and split. Property insurance. Insurance abandonment. Comparison of regulations on falsified commercial paper. Amendments to the law of intellectual property in China. Protection of patent for gene. Protection of copyright on the internet and so on.

CILO-1: From the perspective of comparative law, the students will acquire a general vision of numerous topics of private law in China and will be able to reflect the evolution, features and future development trend of Chinese private law. CILO-2: Based on the broad coverage of the teaching content, the students will be able to select and explore more specific questions in thesis writing and future studies.