In this dissertation, I aim to explore the Corporate Governance (CG) regimes of India and China using CG parameters such as board size and composition, board busyness, board committees, board independence and ownership structure. The reason for undertaking this comparative analysis is that in...

The paper begins with a comparative analysis of the evolutionary legal path adopted by United States, People's Republic of China and European Union with reference to the F/Rand commitments on Standard Essential Patents. In the light of the wide differences which characterize the above-mentioned...

Edited by Yun-chien Chang, Wei Shen and Wen-yeu Wang, the book Private Law in China and Taiwan: Legal and Economic Analyses is set to be a leading comprehensive and authoritative law book that provides an economic and comparative framework for analysing private law in China and Taiwan. This book...

Competing theories of default rules and menus in contract law and corporate law provide different accounts of their effects. However, empirical studies are scant, and all focus on American law. Given that corporate ownership outside of the U.S. is usually concentrated, and institutional settings...

Is Chinese commercial law simply a copy of German and other Western commercial laws, a “mystery” that Westerns cannot understand, or an “irrelevance” given the role of culture and politics in China? This article critically discusses these three modes of understanding. It is found that,...

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...

The document contains the Introduction chapter to "Private Law in China and Taiwan: Economic and Legal Anaylses", Cambridge University Press, 2016. Editors: Yun-chien Chang, Wei Shen, Wen-yeu Wang. The book covers contract, torts, property, and business organization laws in China and Taiwan. The...

COVID-19 pandemic has multiple consequences and knocked multiple disciplines after its occurrence throughout the globe. Among the disciplines touched by the pandemic is the role of law presented as an excuse for the responsibility of non-performance of owing to the pandemic. The COVID-19...

A nation’s economic development requires a significant investment in infrastructure. Infrastructure investment, however, is costly and risky: it is capital intensive, is potentially unprofitable, and requires high levels of technical expertise in many disciplines. To solve this challenge, most...