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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Judges of the Supreme Court of India 1950–89	14
Korea’s experimentation in legal services market liberalization: lessons learned and options for reform	13
Cross-border data flow supervision in China’s free trade zones: security and compliance rules	12
Human Rights in Eastern Civilisations: Some Reflections of a Former UN Special Rapporteur	9
Avoid opening up the Pandora’s box: treaty parallelism, termination and survival in the reform of the China–EU investment regime	8
The limits of liberal justice: on authoritarianism and instrumental theories of law	7
Divorce in China: institutional constraints and gendered outcomes	7
The expanding universe of international tax disputes: a principled analysis of the OECD international tax dispute settlement proposals	6
Proportionality and the fight against international tax abuse: comparative analysis of judicial review in EU, international investment and WTO law	6
Towards a three-tiered ombuds system for investment dispute prevention: principles and challenges	5
Science, technology, and innovation: the next frontier in Asia-Pacific’s legal framework	3
European foreign investment policy towards China: Is there an EU net contribution?	3
Market access for investment and services under the EU–China comprehensive agreement on investment: an appraisal	3
Innovating corporate share listing frameworks: a comparative study of SPAC regulatory regimes in the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Hong Kong	3
Navigating the new approach and evolving theory: a study of injunctive relief for SEPs in China	3
Dispute resolution in the People’s Republic of China: the evolving institutions and mechanisms	2
Navigating the New Era: the emergence of China’s international commercial courts	2
Unjustified enrichment in the Chinese Civil Code: questions from the common law	2
Asia-Pacific trusts law Volume 1 theory and practice in context	2
Constitutional transition and the travail of judges: the courts of South Korea	2
Digital Economy Partnership Agreement and the quest for the global digital trade rule-making: Indian perspective	2
The relevance of purpose in constitutional equal protection challenges to executive action	2
Crime and control in China: the myth of harmony	2
Competition law and policy of the ASEAN member states for the digital economy: a proposal for greater harmonization	2
China’s contestation of international norms on state-owned enterprises and government procurement through the Belt and Road Initiative	2

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
Labour and trade in Asia Pacific: origin, development, and prospects	1
International trade and investment dispute settlement in the Asia-Pacific region: inspiring the new Asian regionalism	1
Digital currencies and great power rivalry: China as a disseminator in the digital age	1
Unpacking the legal status of platform workers in China: an empirical analysis of judicial attitudes and challenges in the food delivery sector	1
Commercial arbitration in Asia: legal developments and regional dynamics from an ASEAN perspective*	1
RCEP rules on cross-border data flows: Asian characteristics and implications for developing countries	1
Lawyer, scholar, teacher and activist: a Liber Amicorum in honour of Derek Roebuck	1
Jumping from mother monkey to bored ape: the value of NFTs from an artist’s and intellectual property perspective	1
The formulation and determination of expropriation clauses in BITs of Sri Lanka: gaps and prospects	1
From Marx to Market: a legal and empirical analysis of the maritime labour convention in China	1
Restrictive ISDS clauses under Chinese BITs: interpretations and implications for China	1
Sword of damocles? Assessing the compulsory sharing of essential data under the Chinese competition law	1
Central bank digital currencies as a potential response to some particularly Pacific problems	1
Fabricating insurance subject matter and defrauding insurance money: a civil wrong or a criminal offence?	1
Public international law, international taxation and tax dispute resolution	1
Consumer protection in Asia	0
The Chinese-style securities class action mechanism for investor protection: context, content, comparison and consequence	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
Digital services and digital trade in the Asia pacific: an alternative model for digital integration?	0
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership: intellectual property and trade in the Asia-Pacific	0
Constitutional democracy in Indonesia	0
The concept of proportionality in public law	0
The impacts of third-party funding on cost decisions in investment arbitration	0
Deciphering RCEP: a deep dive into financial services treaty language in the Asia-Pacific	0
Investment screening put to the test of the Covid-19 Pandemic: typology, legality and externality	0
Religious offences in Common Law Asia: colonial legacies, constitutional rights and contemporary practice Religious offences in Common Law Asia: colonial legacies, constitutional rights	0
The complexification of disputes in the digital age	0
Issues and challenges with applying investment agreements to tax matters in the context of India’s experience	0
Constitutional foundings in Northeast Asia	0
The Financial Action Task Force entrapped within hypocrisy and rhetoric: using India as a case study	0
Rethinking Asia-Pacific regionalism and new economic agreements	0
The enforcement of mandatory rules against illegal contracts	0
Access to Justice for the Chinese Consumer: Handling Consumer Disputes in Contemporary China	0
Industrial policy in Asia-Pacific integration: localization measures and subsidies in ASEAN countries	0
Extraterritoriality in East Asia – extraterritorial criminal jurisdiction in China, Japan, and South Korea	0
Legal tests for excessive pricing and their implementation under China's anti-monopoly law	0
International investment law regionalism in Asia: the tale of South Asia	0
Finding equity without the law of equity: asset management, fiduciary duty and financial consumer protection in China	0
Understanding policy diffusion mechanism of financial regulatory innovation: the experience of Taiwan	0
Sustainability and corporate mechanisms in Asia	0
The Chinese Civil Code’s impact on the protection of Virtual Reputation in China	0
How to utilize notice-and-takedown procedures in IP enforcement on e-commerce platforms – a lesson from China	0
Norm entrepreneurship and legal frameworks against corruption: human rights perspectives in international law	0
Whose data is it anyway? An empirical analysis of online contracting for personal information in China	0
What is so special about CAI?	0
Judicial attitudes towards foreign domestic helpers in the Hong Kong criminal courts	0
Under double shadows: how U.S.–China trade relations and path dependence shape China's IP preliminary injunction system	0
International organizations and corporate governance: the case of the AIIB	0

New Asian regionalism in international economic law	0
Determinants of prosecuting cases about driving while intoxicated in China: an empirical case law analysis	0
Investor-state dispute settlement and tax matters: limitations on state’s sovereign right to tax	0
Cooperative federalism with Chinese characteristics	0
Comparative analysis of the impact of piracy on International Trade in Korea, Indonesia and Nigeria	0
Emerging powers and the world trading system: The past and future of international economic law	0
Assessing the outward foreign investment regulatory regime in China: a unified outward foreign investment law on the horizon?	0
Continuity and change: some reflections on the Chinese Civil Code	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 comprehensive implementation of the registration-based system of IPO regulation in China: practice, progress, problems and prospects	0
Effective or symbolic? A retrospective look at the performance of the China International Commercial Court	0
Authoritarian legality with Chinese characteristics	0
Tax, trade, and investment conundrum in Asia-Pacific regionalism	0
China-made national security law applied in Hong Kong’s common law courts: choice of interpretative approaches	0
Varieties of authoritarian legality	0
Gender, alterity, and human rights: freedom in a fishbowl	0
Correction	0
Rethinking Chinese Politics	0
Shaping trade in goods relevant to renewable energy generation: the RCEP’s potential and limitation	0
Copyright reformed: the narrative of flexibility and its pitfalls in policy and legislative initiatives (2011–2021)	0
Between sovereignty and complexity: the settlement of tax disputes by the world trade organization	0
Building responsible and sustainable supply chain frameworks: limits of international investment law and the CSR initiatives taken by the EU and China	0
Non-monetary relief for breach of contract: a European perspective on Chinese contract law	0
Are you avoiding me? A reflection on voidness and voidability	0
Consensual settlement of competition disputes in China: a call for conditional arbitrability	0
Who are my parents? Determining parenthood of surrogate children under Chinese law	0
A tale of two immunities: the ongoing transition from absolute to restrictive sovereign immunity in China	0
Punitive damages under the new Chinese Civil Code – a critical and comparative analysis	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
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 regionalism and the shaping of state-owned enterprises rules in trade agreements	0
Scoping the impact of the Comprehensive Agreement on investment: liberalization, protection, and dispute resolution in the next era of EU–China relations	0
Exploring energy resilience in China’s energy law in the carbon neutrality era	0
China’s legal efforts to facilitate cross-border data transfers: a comprehensive reality check	0
Cross-border insolvency between Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong: the past, the present, and the future	0
Eliminating zombie companies through insolvency law in China: striking a balance between market-oriented policies and government intervention	0
Bad faith litigation of intellectual property as a violation of China’s anti-monopoly law: How should the current approach be improved?	0
The fairness and efficiency of the right of recourse between security providers: a comparative and economic analysis	0
Authoritarianism and legality	0
The kite on a string: state power and the Chinese IPO mechanism on the path to liberalization	0
Dissemination and development of global corporate governance standards: comparing approaches to ‘comply or explain’ in Philippines and Malaysia	0
Standard-essential patent legal protection in China’s telecommunication industry: an international trade and economy perspective	0
The reform of deposit insurance in China: how China evolves from implicit deposit insurance to explicit deposit insurance	0
The Indian legal system: an enquiry	0