This article reveals evidence-based details of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) arbitral proceedings (1990-2000), allowing unprecedented insights into Chinese international business arbitration. It begins by confirming the prominence of Chinese foreign...

With China a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Congress faces the challenge of determining what can take the place of its former "annual Most Favored Nation (MFN)" review. This review opened Congress as a forum for the American debate regarding its treatment of China, giving Congress...

The Chinese version of this paper can be found at "http://ssrn.com/abstract=2008149" http://ssrn.com/abstract=2008149.As could be expected, the global financial crisis is on everybody's mind and causing a lot of worries. The current crisis has reached the consumers globally and intensified...

Increasing cross-border commercial exchanges and foreign investments have caused arbitration to become more frequently selected as a dispute resolution option in China. In response to this growing demand, China has taken significant steps to improve its arbitration system. Nevertheless,...

China has in the last decade and especially since its entry into the WTO made considerable efforts to improve its judicial system, perfectly aware of the necessity to provide a stable framework for foreign investment and economic growth. An important part of this reform is the development of...

This paper explores whether the patent law and intellectual property rights (IPR) system have resulted in innovation in China during the reform period. It appears that the patent laws have produced a stock of patents, where the success rates of patent applications are fairly uniform across the...

There is little empirical evidence showing how innovation by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is impacted by tax policies, especially SMEs from developing countries. We explore how targeted policies of corporate tax (firm-specific) and value-added tax (product-specific) in China impact their...

China’s massive law reform program was originally driven by its “open door” policies and has been sustained by WTO accession and internationalisation. These reforms, in combination with franchise specific laws, have both legitimised and facilitated the development of a franchise sector in...

In the context of harmonisation of arbitration law and practice worldwide, to what extent do local legal traditions still infuence local arbitration practices, especially at a time when non-Western countries are playing an increasingly important role in international commercial and financial...