What is it about?
The legal recognition and protection of immaterial personality rights (eg reputation, privacy and dignity) has historically been ad hoc and uneven across different legal systems, but the trend has undoubtedly been towards greater recognition and protection. Book 4 of the Chinese Civil Code attempts to provide the first sustained, comprehensive and systematic set of legal principles on the topic. This chapter highlights key features and analyses them in comparison with the law in other countries.
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Why is it important?
This chapter provides the first external analysis of the Book on Personality Rights in the Chinese Civil Code of 2020, highlighting key features and comparing them with the legal approaches in other countries.
Perspectives
Having previously edited a book for Brill entitled The Legal Protection of Personality Rights: Chinese and European Perspectives (jointly with Zhang Pinghua and Chen Lei) it was fascinating to how the law has developed in China since that publication, culminating with the new Book on Personality Rights in the Chinese Civil Code of 2020.
Ken Oliphant
University of Bristol
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This page is a summary of: Comparative Perspectives on the Book on Personality Rights, July 2024, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004704428_012.
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