Shanahly Wan

Shanahly Wan, a New York-licensed attorney, specializes in Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (“TMT”) law and has been pursuing a legal career enriched by cross-border expertise.  Currently, she serves as data privacy compliance counsel for a U.S. tech startup at its office in Beijing, adeptly navigating the complex landscape of data privacy and compliance.  Previously, Ms. Wan worked at a European TMT law firm in Estonia, focusing on satellite technologies and cross-border technological projects.

Ms. Wan’s work reflects her deep interest in the convergence of legal systems within the context of globalization.  This interest also motivated her to join the China Guiding Cases Project at Stanford Law School to serve as an editor.  She finds the development of the Guiding Cases system in China fascinating for its harmonious merger of continental and common law principles, providing guidance to both legal practitioners and laypeople.  Ms. Wan holds an LL.B. from Durham University in the United Kingdom and an LL.M. in Civil and Commercial law from Peking University in China.

For more information about this author’s analysis, please read:

Chinese Courts’ Inconsistent Applications of a Guiding Case on Food Safety: Problems & Solutions
Chinese Courts’ Inconsistent Applications of a Guiding Case on Food Safety: Problems & Solutions

The Supreme People’s Court has established an impressive framework to facilitate the use of Guiding Cases but has not given clear guidance on how to handle inconsistent applications of a Guiding Case by Chinese courts. In this article, the authors analyze the inconsistent applications of Guiding Case No. 60 by several important courts in China, discuss potential problems associated with such inconsistency, and propose solutions to these problems.

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