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Trade Law’S Responses To The Rise Of China, Wentong Zheng
Trade Law’S Responses To The Rise Of China, Wentong Zheng
UF Law Faculty Publications
This Article offers a systematic examination of trade law’s responses to the emergence of China as a major player in world trade. As an intricate set of rules written largely prior to the advent of the China era, trade law had to readjust to the powerful newcomer in ways that eventually changed trade law itself. This Article investigates these changes in four major areas of trade law: antidumping, countervailing duties, safeguards, and managed trade. In almost all of those areas, trade law witnessed a protectionist shift against Chinese products at the expense of sound, consistent principles. But, at the same …
Chinese Reception And Transplantation Of Western Contract Law, Wang Jingen, Larry A. Dimatteo
Chinese Reception And Transplantation Of Western Contract Law, Wang Jingen, Larry A. Dimatteo
UF Law Faculty Publications
The transformation of the People's Republic of China (China) into a market economy and its ascendancy into a global economic power increases the importance of studying its private laws (contract, torts, property, and unjust enrichment). The twin pillars of a market economy are private property and contract law. This Article will focus on the latter of the two pillars. The evolution of Chinese contract law provides an opportunity to study the influences of foreign laws and the formal transplantation of foreign and international law into a different cultural and legal tradition. China's formation of private contract law, beginning in the …