The long awaited first Act of China Private International Law, Law of Application of Law for Foreign-related Civil Relations of People's Republic of China (LALFCR), was adopted on October 28 2010, and will come into force on April 1 2011. Unprecedented, the legislation of China expresses its...

China's rapid growth in the absence of autonomous legal institutions of the kind found in the west appears to pose a problem for theories which stress the importance of law for economic development. In this article we draw on interviews with lawyers, entrepreneurs and financial market actors to...

Using a dataset of Chinese judicial opinions arising in over fifty cases, this paper analyses the development and current implementation of shareholder derivative actions in the courts of the People's Republic of China (“PRC”), both before and after the derivative lawsuit was explicitly...

China's merger enforcement agency approved the Google/Motorola merger with conditions. This pattern of approval is not in full accordance with that in other jurisdictions, including the United States and the European Union, which made unconditional approvals. This contradiction attracted ample...

While technology is playing an increasingly important role in courtrooms around the world, Chinese courts are adopting and experimenting with deep technologies at a much faster pace and on a greater scale than their counterparts in most other countries. In recent years, Chinese courts have seen...

After its quot;revitalisationquot; after the Cultural Revolution, China's people's mediation system declined throughout the 1990s. However, a quot;second revitalisationquot; that began in 2002 has quite successfully reversed this trend. This article discusses this reform effort in four parts....

In recent years, financial economists have authored an influential series of articles that link strong minority shareholder protection — exemplified by private enforcement of securities regulations — to greater financial market development. Their findings, which suggest that transition...