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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The limits of liberal justice: on authoritarianism and instrumental theories of law	18
Korea’s experimentation in legal services market liberalization: lessons learned and options for reform	15
Marriage unbound: state law, power, and inequality in contemporary China	14
RCEP rules on cross-border data flows: Asian characteristics and implications for developing countries	9
Avoid opening up the Pandora’s box: treaty parallelism, termination and survival in the reform of the China–EU investment regime	9
Constitutional transition and the travail of judges: the courts of South Korea	9
Varieties of authoritarian legality	8
The Financial Action Task Force entrapped within hypocrisy and rhetoric: using India as a case study	8
Asian regionalism and the shaping of state-owned enterprises rules in trade agreements	6
Issues and challenges with applying investment agreements to tax matters in the context of India’s experience	5
Effective or symbolic? A retrospective look at the performance of the China International Commercial Court	5
Gender, alterity, and human rights: freedom in a fishbowl	5
Investor-state dispute settlement and tax matters: limitations on state’s sovereign right to tax	4
Between sovereignty and complexity: the settlement of tax disputes by the world trade organization	4
Constitutional foundings in Northeast Asia	3
China’s legal efforts to facilitate cross-border data transfers: a comprehensive reality check	3
Sword of damocles? Assessing the compulsory sharing of essential data under the Chinese competition law	3
International organizations and corporate governance: the case of the AIIB	3
Unjustified enrichment in the Chinese Civil Code: questions from the common law	3
What is so special about CAI?	3
Tax, trade, and investment conundrum in Asia-Pacific regionalism	3
Market access for investment and services under the EU–China comprehensive agreement on investment: an appraisal	3
The relevance of purpose in constitutional equal protection challenges to executive action	2
From Marx to Market: a legal and empirical analysis of the maritime labour convention in China	2
Who are my parents? Determining parenthood of surrogate children under Chinese law	2

Central bank digital currencies as a potential response to some particularly Pacific problems	2
Understanding policy diffusion mechanism of financial regulatory innovation: the experience of Taiwan	2
Authoritarian legality with Chinese characteristics	2
International trade and investment dispute settlement in the Asia-Pacific region: inspiring the new Asian regionalism	2
Public international law, international taxation and tax dispute resolution	2
The Chinese Civil Code’s impact on the protection of Virtual Reputation in China	2
Fabricating insurance subject matter and defrauding insurance money: a civil wrong or a criminal offence?	2