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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The limits of liberal justice: on authoritarianism and instrumental theories of law	28
Marriage unbound: state law, power, and inequality in contemporary China	27
Avoid opening up the Pandora’s box: treaty parallelism, termination and survival in the reform of the China–EU investment regime	19
Fraud and Risk in Commercial Law	14
RCEP rules on cross-border data flows: Asian characteristics and implications for developing countries	11
The tangram of justice: Assembling Law ( Fa ), Reason ( Li ₁	9
Issues and challenges with applying investment agreements to tax matters in the context of India’s experience	7
Varieties of authoritarian legality	7
ITLOS’ jurisdictional decision in the climate change advisory opinion: observations and implications	7
Asian regionalism and the shaping of state-owned enterprises rules in trade agreements	7
Investor-state dispute settlement and tax matters: limitations on state’s sovereign right to tax	6
Effective or symbolic? A retrospective look at the performance of the China International Commercial Court	6
Drunk driving criminalization and frontline enforcement realities in China	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
Between sovereignty and complexity: the settlement of tax disputes by the world trade organization	5
Tax, trade, and investment conundrum in Asia-Pacific regionalism	5
Constitutional foundings in Northeast Asia	4
Mission impossible? An empirical study on bail likelihood and court considerations in Hong Kong under the National Security Law	4
International organizations and corporate governance: the case of the AIIB	4
Evolving issues of the interplay between investor protection and sovereign taxation: the case of Tianqi Lithium and its implications	4
China’s legal efforts to facilitate cross-border data transfers: a comprehensive reality check	3
Market access for investment and services under the EU–China comprehensive agreement on investment: an appraisal	3
Sword of damocles? Assessing the compulsory sharing of essential data under the Chinese competition law	3
What is so special about CAI?	3

Lender of last resort in China: operating mechanism, legal foundation, and the financial stability implications	3
Autonomy via control: political embeddedness and judicial development in China’s courts	3
Establishing Democracy in Foreign Direct Investment: Opportunities and Limitations of Integrating the Principle of Public Participation in the CAI	3
From Marx to Market: a legal and empirical analysis of the maritime labour convention in China	3
The concept of proportionality in public law	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
Governance of a party-state: corruption, law and modus operandi of the Chinese communist party	2
Science, technology, and innovation: the next frontier in Asia-Pacific’s legal framework	2
Determinants of prosecuting cases about driving while intoxicated in China: an empirical case law analysis	2
Public international law, international taxation and tax dispute resolution	2
Correction	2
Assessing the outward foreign investment regulatory regime in China: a unified outward foreign investment law on the horizon?	2
The expanding universe of international tax disputes: a principled analysis of the OECD international tax dispute settlement proposals	2
Authoritarian legality with Chinese characteristics	2
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership: intellectual property and trade in the Asia-Pacific	2
CBAM Litigation and the lawful design of border carbon adjustments: implications for Asia-Pacific trade	2
Competition law and policy of the ASEAN member states for the digital economy: a proposal for greater harmonization	1
Legal tests for excessive pricing and their implementation under China's anti-monopoly law	1
Environmental courts and tribunals in Asia-Pacific: best practices, challenges and the way forward	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
Norm entrepreneurship and legal frameworks against corruption: human rights perspectives in international law	1
AI evidence in criminal proceedings in China: challenges and solutions	1
Jumping from mother monkey to bored ape: the value of NFTs from an artist’s and intellectual property perspective	1
Under double shadows: how U.S.–China trade relations and path dependence shape China's IP preliminary injunction system	1
Judicial attitudes towards foreign domestic helpers in the Hong Kong criminal courts	1
Asia-Pacific trusts law Volume 1 theory and practice in context	1
The annotated constitution of Japan: a handbook	1
A tale of two immunities: the ongoing transition from absolute to restrictive sovereign immunity in China	1
Strengthening Legal Standards for Workforce Rights in China’s Airline Industry	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
Plurilateral pathways to investment facilitation? China’s evolving investment agreement practice	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
Building responsible and sustainable supply chain frameworks: limits of international investment law and the CSR initiatives taken by the EU and China	1
Consensual settlement of competition disputes in China: a call for conditional arbitrability	0
Innovating corporate share listing frameworks: a comparative study of SPAC regulatory regimes in the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Hong Kong	0
Finding equity without the law of equity: asset management, fiduciary duty and financial consumer protection in China	0
Human Rights in Eastern Civilisations: Some Reflections of a Former UN Special Rapporteur	0
The small island states in the Indo-Pacific: sovereignty lost?	0
Consumer protection in Asia	0
The return of the states: constitutional dilemmas of state measures to defend national and state security	0
Promoting the modernization of China’s commercial mediation regime in the context of the Singapore Convention on Mediation	0
International investment law regionalism in Asia: the tale of South Asia	0
Cooperative federalism with Chinese characteristics	0
Bad faith litigation of intellectual property as a violation of China’s anti-monopoly law: How should the current approach be improved?	0
Whose data is it anyway? An empirical analysis of online contracting for personal information in China	0
Constitutional democracy in Indonesia	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

Cross-border data flow supervision in China’s free trade zones: security and compliance rules	0
Digital services and digital trade in the Asia pacific: an alternative model for digital integration?	0
European foreign investment policy towards China: Is there an EU net contribution?	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
The kite on a string: state power and the Chinese IPO mechanism on the path to liberalization	0
Investment screening put to the test of the Covid-19 Pandemic: typology, legality and externality	0
Dissemination and development of global corporate governance standards: comparing approaches to ‘comply or explain’ in Philippines and Malaysia	0
Proportionality and the fight against international tax abuse: comparative analysis of judicial review in EU, international investment and WTO law	0
Digital currencies and great power rivalry: China as a disseminator in the digital age	0
Commercial arbitration in Asia: legal developments and regional dynamics from an ASEAN perspective	0
Comparative analysis of the impact of piracy on International Trade in Korea, Indonesia and Nigeria	0
Rethinking Chinese Politics	0
Industrial policy in Asia-Pacific integration: localization measures and subsidies in ASEAN countries	0
Does consent survive the border? – South Korea, the European Union, and the United States in cross-border data protection	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
China’s data export regime: an evolutionary trajectory and its practical challenges	0
Authoritarianism and legality	0
Law, society and corruption: lessons from the Central Asian context	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
Restrictive ISDS clauses under Chinese BITs: interpretations and implications for China	0
From market access to regulatory cooperation in the Greater Bay Area (GBA): an international economic law perspective	0
Harmonizing the unharmonized? Sustainable development provisions in ASEAN’s fragmented trade architecture	0
Article 2 of the Hong Kong National Security Law and the prohibition of abuse of fundamental rights	0
Are you avoiding me? A reflection on voidness and voidability	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
Asian Comparative Constitutional Law: Constitutional Amendments	0
Shaping trade in goods relevant to renewable energy generation: the RCEP’s potential and limitation	0
Navigating the New Era: the emergence of China’s international commercial courts	0
The comprehensive implementation of the registration-based system of IPO regulation in China: practice, progress, problems and prospects	0
Digital Economy Partnership Agreement and the quest for the global digital trade rule-making: Indian perspective	0
Legal harmonization in the Greater Bay Area: a case study of Macau Trust Law	0
Navigating the new approach and evolving theory: a study of injunctive relief for SEPs in China	0
Subduing Leviathan: examining Central Bank Digital Currency’s privacy protection regime from the Chinese and European Perspectives	0
Rethinking Asia-Pacific regionalism and new economic agreements	0
The impacts of third-party funding on cost decisions in investment arbitration	0
Extraterritoriality in East Asia – extraterritorial criminal jurisdiction in China, Japan, and South Korea	0
Introducing Chinese depositary receipts to accommodate red-chips: context, functioning, barriers and implications	0
Deciphering RCEP: a deep dive into financial services treaty language in the Asia-Pacific	0
Copyright reformed: the narrative of flexibility and its pitfalls in policy and legislative initiatives (2011–2021)	0
The formulation and determination of expropriation clauses in BITs of Sri Lanka: gaps and prospects	0
Labour and trade in Asia Pacific: origin, development, and prospects	0
Crime and control in China: the myth of harmony	0
The rise and fall of a contractual legal capital regime – lessons from a decade of institutional experiments in China	0
Using self-enforcing law to prevent misconduct from loan guarantees provided by companies listed in China	0
China’s contestation of international norms on state-owned enterprises and government procurement through the Belt and Road Initiative	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
Trial by case: the unwritten rules of China’s securities compensation	0
Transitional Clauses and Arbitration Gaps in Chinese Bilateral Investment Treaties	0