Law-lauding ideology and rhetoric has been increasingly evident in China since the end of the Cultural Revolution. In conjunction with decades of rapid and prolific legal institution-building, this has provided rich data for scholarship on the trajectory of China's legal system, and the nature...

On 10 April, 2007, the United States requested consultations with China through DSB of WTO concerning certain measures pertaining to the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights in China. The focus of this thesis is on the first argument of USTR about the thresholds for...

China's mercantilist approach towards international business and trade uses a two pronged strategy to promote China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) at the expense of multinational companies (MNCs) doing business in China and other foreign countries. Within its borders, China uses the...

U.S. multinational companies (MNCs) that do business in China are exposed to major risks under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), a federal statute that prohibits the giving of bribes or anything of value to foreign officials for the purpose of obtaining business. Three key statutory...

China’s recent crackdown on several high profile cases involving bribes made by multinational companies doing business in China raises the issue China’s larger motives in targeting corporate bribery. Other corruption campaigns periodically launched by China throughout its history focused on...

Many MNCs now consider trade secrets to be the most important intellectual property right in China, ahead of patents, trademarks, and copyrights. While trade secrets have become more valuable than ever as a business asset in China, many MNCs also find that protecting their trade secrets in China...

One of the most pressing and novel legal issues that has arisen in contemporary Sino-American relations is the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law (the “Law”) passed by the People’s Republic of China in June 2021. This article presents the first analysis which places the Law in the larger...