OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Asia Pacific Law Review is 2. 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
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
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
Drunk driving criminalization and frontline enforcement realities in China	5
International organizations and corporate governance: the case of the AIIB	5
Tax, trade, and investment conundrum in Asia-Pacific regionalism	5
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
What is so special about CAI?	4
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
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
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
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