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Beijing’S “Congo” Interpretation: Commercial Implications, Chin Leng Lim Dec 2011

Beijing’S “Congo” Interpretation: Commercial Implications, Chin Leng Lim

Chin Leng Lim

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Exit, Voice And International Jurisdictional Competition: A Case Study Of The Evolution Of Taiwan’S Regulatory Regime For Outward Investment In Mainland China, 1997-2008, Chang-Hsien Tsai Dec 2011

Exit, Voice And International Jurisdictional Competition: A Case Study Of The Evolution Of Taiwan’S Regulatory Regime For Outward Investment In Mainland China, 1997-2008, Chang-Hsien Tsai

Chang-hsien (Robert) TSAI

This Article explores the interplay of demand and supply forces in the market for law through international jurisdictional competition led by offshore financial centers. To do so it uses the example of the evolution of a regulatory regime imposed by an onshore jurisdiction, Taiwan, to control outward investment into mainland China (“China-investment”). The argument is that jurisdictional competition brought about by capital mobility or exit will provoke legal changes to prevent the departure of capital when laws reduce the value of remaining within the jurisdiction. The case study is used to examine the extent to which jurisdictional competition fuelled by …


Private Securities Litigation In China: Quasi-U.S. Style Class Action, Tao Liang Dec 2011

Private Securities Litigation In China: Quasi-U.S. Style Class Action, Tao Liang

Tao LIANG

We are under attack, Jason Jiang said during a midnight conference call held on November 22, 2011. It was a hard day for Jason Jiang, Chairman and CEO of Focus Media, a Nasdaq-listed Chinese company. Shares of his company tumbled as much as 66% at one point during that Monday, after short seller Muddy Waters Research accused his company of fraud on November 21, 2011. Based on the allegations in Muddy Waters report and the consequent free-falling stock price of Focus Media, on December 13, 2011, Rigrodsky & Long, a US law firm, filed securities fraud class action against Focus …


'You Don't Miss Your Water 'Til Your River Runs Dry': Regulating Industrial Supply Shortages After 'China-Raw Materials', Chin Leng Lim, J. H. Senduk Dec 2011

'You Don't Miss Your Water 'Til Your River Runs Dry': Regulating Industrial Supply Shortages After 'China-Raw Materials', Chin Leng Lim, J. H. Senduk

Chin Leng Lim

Global industrial production depends on stable access to raw inputs. Food price volatility has emerged as a major concern for Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (G20), while we are hearing new calls for bringing global disciplines to resource cartels like the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Supply chains that make up globalized production recently demonstrated their potential fragility when Chinese sovereign intervention threatened to bring Japan’s high-tech manufacturing to its knees by cutting off its supplies. These wide-ranging issues are now being addressed under the umbrella of trade regulation. As a result, we are …