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 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
The Financial Action Task Force entrapped within hypocrisy and rhetoric: using India as a case study	8
Varieties of authoritarian legality	8
Asian regionalism and the shaping of state-owned enterprises rules in trade agreements	6
Gender, alterity, and human rights: freedom in a fishbowl	5
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
Between sovereignty and complexity: the settlement of tax disputes by the world trade organization	4
Investor-state dispute settlement and tax matters: limitations on state’s sovereign right to tax	4
Market access for investment and services under the EU–China comprehensive agreement on investment: an appraisal	3
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
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
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership: intellectual property and trade in the Asia-Pacific	1
Assessing the outward foreign investment regulatory regime in China: a unified outward foreign investment law on the horizon?	1
Competition law and policy of the ASEAN member states for the digital economy: a proposal for greater harmonization	1
Under double shadows: how U.S.–China trade relations and path dependence shape China's IP preliminary injunction system	1
Cross-border insolvency between Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong: the past, the present, and the future	1
Judicial attitudes towards foreign domestic helpers in the Hong Kong criminal courts	1
China-made national security law applied in Hong Kong’s common law courts: choice of interpretative approaches	1
The concept of proportionality in public law	1
The complexification of disputes in the digital age	1
Jumping from mother monkey to bored ape: the value of NFTs from an artist’s and intellectual property perspective	1
A tale of two immunities: the ongoing transition from absolute to restrictive sovereign immunity in China	1
Norm entrepreneurship and legal frameworks against corruption: human rights perspectives in international law	1
Science, technology, and innovation: the next frontier in Asia-Pacific’s legal framework	1
Exploring energy resilience in China’s energy law in the carbon neutrality era	1
Determinants of prosecuting cases about driving while intoxicated in China: an empirical case law analysis	1
The expanding universe of international tax disputes: a principled analysis of the OECD international tax dispute settlement proposals	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
The annotated constitution of Japan: a handbook	1
Correction	1
The enforcement of mandatory rules against illegal contracts	0
Non-monetary relief for breach of contract: a European perspective on Chinese contract law	0
Continuity and change: some reflections on the Chinese Civil Code	0
Unpacking the legal status of platform workers in China: an empirical analysis of judicial attitudes and challenges in the food delivery sector	0
The Chinese-style securities class action mechanism for investor protection: context, content, comparison and consequence	0
Shaping trade in goods relevant to renewable energy generation: the RCEP’s potential and limitation	0
Punitive damages under the new Chinese Civil Code – a critical and comparative analysis	0
Judges of the Supreme Court of India 1950–89	0
Bad faith litigation of intellectual property as a violation of China’s anti-monopoly law: How should the current approach be improved?	0
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
The fairness and efficiency of the right of recourse between security providers: a comparative and economic analysis	0
Rethinking Chinese Politics	0
Are you avoiding me? A reflection on voidness and voidability	0
Finding equity without the law of equity: asset management, fiduciary duty and financial consumer protection in China	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 small island states in the Indo-Pacific: sovereignty lost?	0
China’s contestation of international norms on state-owned enterprises and government procurement through the Belt and Road Initiative	0
Innovating corporate share listing frameworks: a comparative study of SPAC regulatory regimes in the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Hong Kong	0
The kite on a string: state power and the Chinese IPO mechanism on the path to liberalization	0
Labour and trade in Asia Pacific: origin, development, and prospects	0
Constitutional democracy in Indonesia	0
Deciphering RCEP: a deep dive into financial services treaty language in the Asia-Pacific	0

Rethinking Asia-Pacific regionalism and new economic agreements	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
Whose data is it anyway? An empirical analysis of online contracting for personal information in China	0
International investment law regionalism in Asia: the tale of South Asia	0
Emerging powers and the world trading system: The past and future of international economic law	0
Industrial policy in Asia-Pacific integration: localization measures and subsidies in ASEAN countries	0
Building responsible and sustainable supply chain frameworks: limits of international investment law and the CSR initiatives taken by the EU and China	0
Sustainability and corporate mechanisms in Asia	0
Divorce in China: institutional constraints and gendered outcomes	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
Eliminating zombie companies through insolvency law in China: striking a balance between market-oriented policies and government intervention	0
The reform of deposit insurance in China: how China evolves from implicit deposit insurance to explicit deposit insurance	0
Lawyer, scholar, teacher and activist: a Liber Amicorum in honour of Derek Roebuck	0
Subduing Leviathan: examining Central Bank Digital Currency’s privacy protection regime from the Chinese and European Perspectives	0
Access to Justice for the Chinese Consumer: Handling Consumer Disputes in Contemporary China	0
The comprehensive implementation of the registration-based system of IPO regulation in China: practice, progress, problems and prospects	0
Navigating the new approach and evolving theory: a study of injunctive relief for SEPs in China	0
Digital services and digital trade in the Asia pacific: an alternative model for digital integration?	0
Consumer protection in Asia	0
Towards a three-tiered ombuds system for investment dispute prevention: principles and challenges	0
Digital Economy Partnership Agreement and the quest for the global digital trade rule-making: Indian perspective	0
New Asian regionalism in international economic law	0
Dispute resolution in the People’s Republic of China: the evolving institutions and mechanisms	0
Human Rights in Eastern Civilisations: Some Reflections of a Former UN Special Rapporteur	0
Copyright reformed: the narrative of flexibility and its pitfalls in policy and legislative initiatives (2011–2021)	0
The Indian legal system: an enquiry	0
The formulation and determination of expropriation clauses in BITs of Sri Lanka: gaps and prospects	0
Authoritarianism and legality	0
Law, society and corruption: lessons from the Central Asian context	0
The impacts of third-party funding on cost decisions in investment arbitration	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
Scoping the impact of the Comprehensive Agreement on investment: liberalization, protection, and dispute resolution in the next era of EU–China relations	0
Standard-essential patent legal protection in China’s telecommunication industry: an international trade and economy perspective	0
Commercial arbitration in Asia: legal developments and regional dynamics from an ASEAN perspective*	0
Extraterritoriality in East Asia – extraterritorial criminal jurisdiction in China, Japan, and South Korea	0
Asia-Pacific trusts law Volume 1 theory and practice in context	0
How to utilize notice-and-takedown procedures in IP enforcement on e-commerce platforms – a lesson from China	0
Digital currencies and great power rivalry: China as a disseminator in the digital age	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
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
Cross-border data flow supervision in China’s free trade zones: security and compliance rules	0
Navigating the New Era: the emergence of China’s international commercial courts	0
Crime and control in China: the myth of harmony	0
Proportionality and the fight against international tax abuse: comparative analysis of judicial review in EU, international investment and WTO law	0
Cooperative federalism with Chinese characteristics	0
Restrictive ISDS clauses under Chinese BITs: interpretations and implications for China	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