OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Asia Pacific Law Review is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Marriage unbound: state law, power, and inequality in contemporary China	30
Fraud and Risk in Commercial Law	28
The limits of liberal justice: on authoritarianism and instrumental theories of law	14
Independent directors in Malaysian corporate governance: out with the old?	10
RCEP rules on cross-border data flows: Asian characteristics and implications for developing countries	9
The tangram of justice: Assembling Law ( Fa ), Reason ( Li ₁	9
Asian regionalism and the shaping of state-owned enterprises rules in trade agreements	8
Varieties of authoritarian legality	8
The Financial Action Task Force entrapped within hypocrisy and rhetoric: using India as a case study	7
Issues and challenges with applying investment agreements to tax matters in the context of India’s experience	7
ITLOS’ jurisdictional decision in the climate change advisory opinion: observations and implications	7
Drunk driving criminalization and frontline enforcement realities in China	6
Between sovereignty and complexity: the settlement of tax disputes by the world trade organization	6
Social enterprise in Asia: A New Legal Form	6
Effective or symbolic? A retrospective look at the performance of the China International Commercial Court	5
Tax, trade, and investment conundrum in Asia-Pacific regionalism	5
China’s legal efforts to facilitate cross-border data transfers: a comprehensive reality check	4
Mission impossible? An empirical study on bail likelihood and court considerations in Hong Kong under the National Security Law	4
Autonomy via control: political embeddedness and judicial development in China’s courts	4
Evolving issues of the interplay between investor protection and sovereign taxation: the case of Tianqi Lithium and its implications	4
Establishing Democracy in Foreign Direct Investment: Opportunities and Limitations of Integrating the Principle of Public Participation in the CAI	4
Constitutional foundings in Northeast Asia	4
Compliance gaps in digital trade agreements: structural coordination failure and institutional remedies— evidence from Korea's Digital Partnership Agreement with Singapore	3
Market access for investment and services under the EU–China comprehensive agreement on investment: an appraisal	3
From Marx to Market: a legal and empirical analysis of the maritime labour convention in China	3

Sword of damocles? Assessing the compulsory sharing of essential data under the Chinese competition law	3
Lender of last resort in China: operating mechanism, legal foundation, and the financial stability implications	3
Public international law, international taxation and tax dispute resolution	2
Correction	2
Governance of a party-state: corruption, law and modus operandi of the Chinese communist party	2
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership: intellectual property and trade in the Asia-Pacific	2
Authoritarian legality with Chinese characteristics	2
Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand	2
Determinants of prosecuting cases about driving while intoxicated in China: an empirical case law analysis	2
International trade and investment dispute settlement in the Asia-Pacific region: inspiring the new Asian regionalism	2
China-made national security law applied in Hong Kong’s common law courts: choice of interpretative approaches	2
The concept of proportionality in public law	2
CBAM Litigation and the lawful design of border carbon adjustments: implications for Asia-Pacific trade	2
A tale of two immunities: the ongoing transition from absolute to restrictive sovereign immunity in China	1
Judicial attitudes towards foreign domestic helpers in the Hong Kong criminal courts	1
AI evidence in criminal proceedings in China: challenges and solutions	1
Assessing the outward foreign investment regulatory regime in China: a unified outward foreign investment law on the horizon?	1
Under double shadows: how U.S.–China trade relations and path dependence shape China's IP preliminary injunction system	1
To revive or not to revive: the common law on restrictive immunity in Hong Kong after the implementation of the foreign state immunity law	1
Strengthening Legal Standards for Workforce Rights in China’s Airline Industry	1
Territorial governance in Southeast Asia	1
Competition law and policy of the ASEAN member states for the digital economy: a proposal for greater harmonization	1
Environmental courts and tribunals in Asia-Pacific: best practices, challenges and the way forward	1
Legal tests for excessive pricing and their implementation under China's anti-monopoly law	1
Religious offences in Common Law Asia: colonial legacies, constitutional rights and contemporary practice Religious offences in Common Law Asia: colonial legacies, constitutional rights	1
Science, technology, and innovation: the next frontier in Asia-Pacific’s legal framework	1
Jumping from mother monkey to bored ape: the value of NFTs from an artist’s and intellectual property perspective	1
An Asian approach to data protection in the digital trade economy	1
China’s treaty policy and practice in international investment law and arbitration: a comprehensive and analytical study China’s treaty policy and practice in international investment l	0
Introducing Chinese depositary receipts to accommodate red-chips: context, functioning, barriers and implications	0
The annotated constitution of Japan: a handbook	0
Copyright reformed: the narrative of flexibility and its pitfalls in policy and legislative initiatives (2011–2021)	0
Does consent survive the border? – South Korea, the European Union, and the United States in cross-border data protection	0
Standard-essential patent legal protection in China’s telecommunication industry: an international trade and economy perspective	0
Using self-enforcing law to prevent misconduct from loan guarantees provided by companies listed in China	0
China’s data export regime: an evolutionary trajectory and its practical challenges	0
Investment screening put to the test of the Covid-19 Pandemic: typology, legality and externality	0
The formulation and determination of expropriation clauses in BITs of Sri Lanka: gaps and prospects	0
Geography has little impact: a comparative study on the role of judges in Singapore and Indonesia in the taking of evidence in civil proceedings	0
Capital drug laws in Asia	0
Navigating the New Era: the emergence of China’s international commercial courts	0
Cross-border data flow supervision in China’s free trade zones: security and compliance rules	0
From market access to regulatory cooperation in the Greater Bay Area (GBA): an international economic law perspective	0
Extraterritoriality in East Asia – extraterritorial criminal jurisdiction in China, Japan, and South Korea	0
The small island states in the Indo-Pacific: sovereignty lost?	0
Shaping trade in goods relevant to renewable energy generation: the RCEP’s potential and limitation	0
Subduing Leviathan: examining Central Bank Digital Currency’s privacy protection regime from the Chinese and European Perspectives	0
Dissemination and development of global corporate governance standards: comparing approaches to ‘comply or explain’ in Philippines and Malaysia	0
Industrial policy in Asia-Pacific integration: localization measures and subsidies in ASEAN countries	0
Commercial arbitration in Asia: legal developments and regional dynamics from an ASEAN perspective	0

Use of personal information for artificial intelligence learning data under the Personal Information Protection Act: the case of Lee-Luda, an artificial-intelligence chatbot in South Korea	0
Asia-Pacific trusts law Volume 1 theory and practice in context	0
When lex specialis fails: the conditional return to general international law in China’s 2025 unilateral trade retaliation and countermeasures regime	0
Norm entrepreneurship and legal frameworks against corruption: human rights perspectives in international law	0
Constitutional democracy in Indonesia	0
Cooperative federalism with Chinese characteristics	0
Opportunities and challenges in constructing the China-ASEAN free trade area 3.0 under RCEP—a tripartite analysis of goods, services, and investment rules	0
Digital services and digital trade in the Asia pacific: an alternative model for digital integration?	0
Whose data is it anyway? An empirical analysis of online contracting for personal information in China	0
Labour and trade in Asia Pacific: origin, development, and prospects	0
Unpacking the legal status of platform workers in China: an empirical analysis of judicial attitudes and challenges in the food delivery sector	0
Transitional Clauses and Arbitration Gaps in Chinese Bilateral Investment Treaties	0
Harmonizing the unharmonized? Sustainable development provisions in ASEAN’s fragmented trade architecture	0
The kite on a string: state power and the Chinese IPO mechanism on the path to liberalization	0
Innovating corporate share listing frameworks: a comparative study of SPAC regulatory regimes in the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Hong Kong	0
Navigating the new approach and evolving theory: a study of injunctive relief for SEPs in China	0
Indian Private International Law Indian Private International Law , by Stellina Jolly and Saloni Khanderia, New York, NY, Hart Publishing, 2021, 392 pp., USD 252 (Hardba	0
Rethinking Asia-Pacific regionalism and new economic agreements	0
Consensual settlement of competition disputes in China: a call for conditional arbitrability	0
Comparative analysis of the impact of piracy on International Trade in Korea, Indonesia and Nigeria	0
Legal harmonization in the Greater Bay Area: a case study of Macau Trust Law	0
The impacts of third-party funding on cost decisions in investment arbitration	0
Plurilateral pathways to investment facilitation? China’s evolving investment agreement practice	0
Bad faith litigation of intellectual property as a violation of China’s anti-monopoly law: How should the current approach be improved?	0
Building responsible and sustainable supply chain frameworks: limits of international investment law and the CSR initiatives taken by the EU and China	0
Authoritarianism and legality	0
Comparative studies of available relief for defective aircraft and grounding losses under the legal regimes in China and the U.S.: product tort liability or contractual warranty liability?	0
Promoting the modernization of China’s commercial mediation regime in the context of the Singapore Convention on Mediation	0
Deciphering RCEP: a deep dive into financial services treaty language in the Asia-Pacific	0
Are you avoiding me? A reflection on voidness and voidability	0
Law, society and corruption: lessons from the Central Asian context	0
Asian Comparative Constitutional Law: Constitutional Amendments	0
Crime and control in China: the myth of harmony	0
Human Rights in Eastern Civilisations: Some Reflections of a Former UN Special Rapporteur	0
The rise and fall of a contractual legal capital regime – lessons from a decade of institutional experiments in China	0
Digital Economy Partnership Agreement and the quest for the global digital trade rule-making: Indian perspective	0
European foreign investment policy towards China: Is there an EU net contribution?	0
Article 2 of the Hong Kong National Security Law and the prohibition of abuse of fundamental rights	0
Trial by case: the unwritten rules of China’s securities compensation	0
Consumer protection in Asia	0
The comprehensive implementation of the registration-based system of IPO regulation in China: practice, progress, problems and prospects	0
The return of the states: constitutional dilemmas of state measures to defend national and state security	0
Rethinking Chinese Politics	0
International investment law regionalism in Asia: the tale of South Asia	0