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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The limits of liberal justice: on authoritarianism and instrumental theories of law	19
Marriage unbound: state law, power, and inequality in contemporary China	16
Avoid opening up the Pandora’s box: treaty parallelism, termination and survival in the reform of the China–EU investment regime	15
Constitutional transition and the travail of judges: the courts of South Korea	11
RCEP rules on cross-border data flows: Asian characteristics and implications for developing countries	10
ITLOS’ jurisdictional decision in the climate change advisory opinion: observations and implications	9
Varieties of authoritarian legality	9
Asian regionalism and the shaping of state-owned enterprises rules in trade agreements	9
Issues and challenges with applying investment agreements to tax matters in the context of India’s experience	5
The Financial Action Task Force entrapped within hypocrisy and rhetoric: using India as a case study	5
Effective or symbolic? A retrospective look at the performance of the China International Commercial Court	5
Tax, trade, and investment conundrum in Asia-Pacific regionalism	4
Constitutional foundings in Northeast Asia	4
Drunk driving criminalization and frontline enforcement realities in China	4
International organizations and corporate governance: the case of the AIIB	4
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
Mission impossible? An empirical study on bail likelihood and court considerations in Hong Kong under the National Security Law	3
From Marx to Market: a legal and empirical analysis of the maritime labour convention in China	3
Who are my parents? Determining parenthood of surrogate children under Chinese law	3
What is so special about CAI?	3
Public international law, international taxation and tax dispute resolution	3
International trade and investment dispute settlement in the Asia-Pacific region: inspiring the new Asian regionalism	3
Central bank digital currencies as a potential response to some particularly Pacific problems	3
The relevance of purpose in constitutional equal protection challenges to executive action	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
Fabricating insurance subject matter and defrauding insurance money: a civil wrong or a criminal offence?	3
China’s legal efforts to facilitate cross-border data transfers: a comprehensive reality check	3
Correction	2
China-made national security law applied in Hong Kong’s common law courts: choice of interpretative approaches	2
Authoritarian legality with Chinese characteristics	2
Exploring energy resilience in China’s energy law in the carbon neutrality era	2
Understanding policy diffusion mechanism of financial regulatory innovation: the experience of Taiwan	2
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership: intellectual property and trade in the Asia-Pacific	2