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Westlaw China

Westlaw China helps legal professionals in law firms, corporations and academic institutions quickly get to the information they need.

Westlaw® China is a powerful legal research tool customized for legal professionals who specialize in Chinese laws. Our editorial team comprises lawyers and experts with years of experience in legal work. The team has been carefully reviewing and organizing laws and regulations, as well as court cases of mainland China, to provide users with well-processed legal information and value-added data services.

Containing both a Chinese database and an English database, Westlaw China is designed not only to provide users with accurate and bilingual legal information, but also to satisfy customized needs of both Chinese-speaking and English-speaking users. The content on Westlaw China is updated on daily basis, ensuring the currency and accuracy of the information for resarchers.

Westlaw China is a product of Thomson Reuters Legal, one of the world's leading providers of legal information services.

With Westlaw China, you can:

  • Acquire the most comprehensive laws, regulations and cases of China.
  • Easily retrieve accurate information and understand the law in an unfamiliar area.
  • Receive the latest legal and business news with Current Awareness Alert several times every day.
  • Search across databases on the homepage and find relevant legal information quickly.
  • Get precise English content.

Why choose Westlaw China?

  • Most Comprehensive Coverage: Westlaw China provides more than 400,000 laws and regulations promulgated by Chinese government agencies at both the central and provincial levels, and directly under the Central Government and autonomous region since 1949. The database also contains more than 100,000 cases sourced from the Supreme People’s Court and local courts in 31 provinces, municipalities directly under the Central Government and autonomous regions, as well as special courts, such as maritime courts.
  • Legal Topics and Legal Issues, Practice Oriented: Westlaw China covers more than 34 legal topics and 28,000 legal issues. These legal topics focus on the most important practice areas such as FDI and M&A. Each legal issue comprises law excerpt, case headnote, relevant document, and cross reference. Users can easily retrieve accurate information and understand the law in an unfamiliar area.
  • Quality English Translation: Our English translations are prepared by professional and experienced legal translators and proofread by native English speakers with legal backgrounds. We make every effort to ensure the precision, readability and correct use of legal terms in our translation, and are dedicated to provide users with accurate English content for their reference and use in their work. Our English content covers more than 4,000 major laws and regulations in 10 legal topics.
  • Market Leading Current Awareness: Our Current Awareness comprises four categories: Adopted Legislation, Courts and Cases, Proposed Legislation, Government Policies, and News. Users may subscribe to content based on their interest and view their news either online or via email. Both can be viewed in Chinese and English.

  • The most comprehensive Chinese laws, regulations and cases
  • Practice-oriented legal topics and legal issues
  • Market leading current awareness
  • Quality English translation
  • Intuitive and relevant research tools

Contact Us

Beijing

Unit 03-06, 7/F, Tower 1, China Central Place
81 Jianguolu, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100025, P. R. China
Tel: +86 10 5969 5100    
Fax: +86 10 5969 5069

Shanghai

Rm. 5609, Plaza 66, 1266 Nanjing Road (W), Shanghai 200040, P. R. China
Tel: +86 21 6288 5222
Fax: +86 21 6288 2082

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