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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Marriage unbound: state law, power, and inequality in contemporary China	28
The limits of liberal justice: on authoritarianism and instrumental theories of law	26
Avoid opening up the Pandora’s box: treaty parallelism, termination and survival in the reform of the China–EU investment regime	19
RCEP rules on cross-border data flows: Asian characteristics and implications for developing countries	14
Fraud and Risk in Commercial Law	14
The tangram of justice: Assembling Law ( Fa ), Reason ( Li ₁	11
Asian regionalism and the shaping of state-owned enterprises rules in trade agreements	7
Varieties of authoritarian legality	7
Investor-state dispute settlement and tax matters: limitations on state’s sovereign right to tax	6
Issues and challenges with applying investment agreements to tax matters in the context of India’s experience	6
Between sovereignty and complexity: the settlement of tax disputes by the world trade organization	6
The Financial Action Task Force entrapped within hypocrisy and rhetoric: using India as a case study	6
Social enterprise in Asia: A New Legal Form	6
ITLOS’ jurisdictional decision in the climate change advisory opinion: observations and implications	6
Effective or symbolic? A retrospective look at the performance of the China International Commercial Court	6
Tax, trade, and investment conundrum in Asia-Pacific regionalism	5
Drunk driving criminalization and frontline enforcement realities in China	5
International organizations and corporate governance: the case of the AIIB	5
What is so special about CAI?	4
Mission impossible? An empirical study on bail likelihood and court considerations in Hong Kong under the National Security Law	4
Constitutional foundings in Northeast Asia	4
Evolving issues of the interplay between investor protection and sovereign taxation: the case of Tianqi Lithium and its implications	4
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
Lender of last resort in China: operating mechanism, legal foundation, and the financial stability implications	3

China’s legal efforts to facilitate cross-border data transfers: a comprehensive reality check	3
The relevance of purpose in constitutional equal protection challenges to executive action	3
International trade and investment dispute settlement in the Asia-Pacific region: inspiring the new Asian regionalism	3
Establishing Democracy in Foreign Direct Investment: Opportunities and Limitations of Integrating the Principle of Public Participation in the CAI	3
Sword of damocles? Assessing the compulsory sharing of essential data under the Chinese competition law	3
Public international law, international taxation and tax dispute resolution	3
Correction	2
Assessing the outward foreign investment regulatory regime in China: a unified outward foreign investment law on the horizon?	2
AI evidence in criminal proceedings in China: challenges and solutions	2
Determinants of prosecuting cases about driving while intoxicated in China: an empirical case law analysis	2
Authoritarian legality with Chinese characteristics	2
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership: intellectual property and trade in the Asia-Pacific	2
Competition law and policy of the ASEAN member states for the digital economy: a proposal for greater harmonization	2
Science, technology, and innovation: the next frontier in Asia-Pacific’s legal framework	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
The expanding universe of international tax disputes: a principled analysis of the OECD international tax dispute settlement proposals	2
Strengthening Legal Standards for Workforce Rights in China’s Airline Industry	2
Norm entrepreneurship and legal frameworks against corruption: human rights perspectives in international law	1
Under double shadows: how U.S.–China trade relations and path dependence shape China's IP preliminary injunction system	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
Legal tests for excessive pricing and their implementation under China's anti-monopoly law	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	1
The small island states in the Indo-Pacific: sovereignty lost?	1
Environmental courts and tribunals in Asia-Pacific: best practices, challenges and the way forward	1
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
Divorce in China: institutional constraints and gendered outcomes	1
Commercial arbitration in Asia: legal developments and regional dynamics from an ASEAN perspective	1
Rethinking Chinese Politics	1
Jumping from mother monkey to bored ape: the value of NFTs from an artist’s and intellectual property perspective	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
Building responsible and sustainable supply chain frameworks: limits of international investment law and the CSR initiatives taken by the EU and China	1
Asia-Pacific trusts law Volume 1 theory and practice in context	1
Plurilateral pathways to investment facilitation? China’s evolving investment agreement practice	1
The annotated constitution of Japan: a handbook	1
Harmonizing the unharmonized? Sustainable development provisions in ASEAN’s fragmented trade architecture	0
Are you avoiding me? A reflection on voidness and voidability	0
Asian Comparative Constitutional Law: Constitutional Amendments	0
European foreign investment policy towards China: Is there an EU net contribution?	0
Investment screening put to the test of the Covid-19 Pandemic: typology, legality and externality	0
Shaping trade in goods relevant to renewable energy generation: the RCEP’s potential and limitation	0
Digital Economy Partnership Agreement and the quest for the global digital trade rule-making: Indian perspective	0
The comprehensive implementation of the registration-based system of IPO regulation in China: practice, progress, problems and prospects	0
New Asian regionalism in international economic law	0
Subduing Leviathan: examining Central Bank Digital Currency’s privacy protection regime from the Chinese and European Perspectives	0
Digital currencies and great power rivalry: China as a disseminator in the digital age	0
Emerging powers and the world trading system: The past and future of international economic law	0
Comparative analysis of the impact of piracy on International Trade in Korea, Indonesia and Nigeria	0
The Chinese-style securities class action mechanism for investor protection: context, content, comparison and consequence	0

Deciphering RCEP: a deep dive into financial services treaty language in the Asia-Pacific	0
International investment law regionalism in Asia: the tale of South Asia	0
The formulation and determination of expropriation clauses in BITs of Sri Lanka: gaps and prospects	0
Introducing Chinese depositary receipts to accommodate red-chips: context, functioning, barriers and implications	0
Crime and control in China: the myth of harmony	0
Constitutional democracy in Indonesia	0
Rethinking Asia-Pacific regionalism and new economic agreements	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
Copyright reformed: the narrative of flexibility and its pitfalls in policy and legislative initiatives (2011–2021)	0
Cross-border data flow supervision in China’s free trade zones: security and compliance rules	0
Human Rights in Eastern Civilisations: Some Reflections of a Former UN Special Rapporteur	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
Proportionality and the fight against international tax abuse: comparative analysis of judicial review in EU, international investment and WTO law	0
Consensual settlement of competition disputes in China: a call for conditional arbitrability	0
Labour and trade in Asia Pacific: origin, development, and prospects	0
Dissemination and development of global corporate governance standards: comparing approaches to ‘comply or explain’ in Philippines and Malaysia	0
China’s contestation of international norms on state-owned enterprises and government procurement through the Belt and Road Initiative	0
Promoting the modernization of China’s commercial mediation regime in the context of the Singapore Convention on Mediation	0
Using self-enforcing law to prevent misconduct from loan guarantees provided by companies listed in China	0
Extraterritoriality in East Asia – extraterritorial criminal jurisdiction in China, Japan, and South Korea	0
The return of the states: constitutional dilemmas of state measures to defend national and state security	0
Whose data is it anyway? An empirical analysis of online contracting for personal information in China	0
Sustainability and corporate mechanisms in Asia	0
Unpacking the legal status of platform workers in China: an empirical analysis of judicial attitudes and challenges in the food delivery sector	0
Standard-essential patent legal protection in China’s telecommunication industry: an international trade and economy perspective	0
Capital drug laws in Asia	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
Towards a three-tiered ombuds system for investment dispute prevention: principles and challenges	0
Digital services and digital trade in the Asia pacific: an alternative model for digital integration?	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
Navigating the new approach and evolving theory: a study of injunctive relief for SEPs in China	0
Navigating the New Era: the emergence of China’s international commercial courts	0
The kite on a string: state power and the Chinese IPO mechanism on the path to liberalization	0
From market access to regulatory cooperation in the Greater Bay Area (GBA): an international economic law perspective	0
Finding equity without the law of equity: asset management, fiduciary duty and financial consumer protection in China	0
Innovating corporate share listing frameworks: a comparative study of SPAC regulatory regimes in the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Hong Kong	0
Legal harmonization in the Greater Bay Area: a case study of Macau Trust Law	0
Article 2 of the Hong Kong National Security Law and the prohibition of abuse of fundamental rights	0
Consumer protection in Asia	0
The reform of deposit insurance in China: how China evolves from implicit deposit insurance to explicit deposit insurance	0
Industrial policy in Asia-Pacific integration: localization measures and subsidies in ASEAN countries	0
Cooperative federalism with Chinese characteristics	0
The impacts of third-party funding on cost decisions in investment arbitration	0
Law, society and corruption: lessons from the Central Asian context	0
Bad faith litigation of intellectual property as a violation of China’s anti-monopoly law: How should the current approach be improved?	0
Restrictive ISDS clauses under Chinese BITs: interpretations and implications for China	0
Authoritarianism and legality	0
The rise and fall of a contractual legal capital regime – lessons from a decade of institutional experiments in China	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