This report confines its examination to a limited number of leading ‘sample’ comparative law articles published in Chinese journals in 2012. Comparative law is widely used as a research method by academics in almost all subject areas. One may argue that most, if not all, legal research is ‘comparative’ as all of it employs to some degree a comparative law method. However, it would be impossible for this report to examine all such publications. Instead, this report focuses mainly on the scholarship about comparative law rather than on work that merely uses comparative law as a research method. This report focuses on comparative legal studies in China and uses sample articles published in Chinese journals from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012. However, a general search of the Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) Database returned 143 articles that investigated ‘comparative law’ in 2012 and 154 articles...