A Comparative Study of the Civil Code of China and Ukraine in Legislation of Personality Rights
Both Chinese and Ukrainian Civil Codes coincidentally include the volume of Personali-ty Rights,showing the humanistic development of the Civil Code in the 21st century for better protecting human dignity and personality rights.With their respective features,the legislation of personality rights in the two Civil Codes still has some deficiencies.A comparison shows that the two Codes have different names for personality rights,which are put in different positions of the Codes.Ukrainian Civil Codes put some rights belonging to the public law under the personality right.It is what our Civil Code must avoid:public rights and private rights must not be muddled up together.The two Codes can refer to each other in terms of the contents of personality rights.This comparative study can,on the one hand,reveal the shared features of the two Codes and,more importantly,help improve our legislation of personality rights by referring to the advantages of the counterpart laws.
Chinese Civil CodeUkrainian Civil Codepersonality rights legislationlegislative statuslegislative content