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The Future Of China's U.S.-Listed Firms: Legal And Political Perspectives On Possible Decoupling, Rebecca Parry, Qingxiu Bu
The Future Of China's U.S.-Listed Firms: Legal And Political Perspectives On Possible Decoupling, Rebecca Parry, Qingxiu Bu
William & Mary Business Law Review
There is a long history of Chinese firms raising capital on leading U.S. exchanges. These shares have proved attractive and are estimated at $1 trillion value, in spite of deep mismatches between Chinese internal approaches to corporate governance and those taken under U.S. securities regulations. Chinese listings of nonstate firms, particularly in the technology sector, had depended on a largely laissez-faire initial approach to the expansion through foreign listings, including tolerance of the opaque Variable Interest Entity (VIE) structures adopted as a means to bypass Chinese restrictions on foreign ownership. Concerns regarding data security had, however, prevented compliance by Chinese …
Smart Cities And Sustainability: A New Challenge To Accountability?, Iria Giuffrida
Smart Cities And Sustainability: A New Challenge To Accountability?, Iria Giuffrida
William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review
From 1800 to today, the global population has shifted from only three percent living in an urban environment to well over fifty percent in 2020. As a result of urbanization, cities around the world struggle to manage traffic and waste, efficiently distribute utilities, and lower pollution to slow the progression of global warming. Smart city technologies have emerged as a tool to process cities’ various forms of data collected through networks of precisely placed sensors and map solutions to many of the environmental and social issues created by urbanization. For swelling metropolitan areas in the United States, China, and Europe …
Protecting The States From Electoral Invasions, Drew Marvel
Protecting The States From Electoral Invasions, Drew Marvel
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the threat of foreign interference in U.S. elections has loomed large in the minds of the American public. During the 2016 campaign season, Russian government-backed hackers infiltrated the networks and computers of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), and various campaign officials, harvesting private information and installing spyware and malware for ongoing intelligence purposes. U.S. intelligence officials have indicated that, using similar tactics, the Russian hackers also targeted election systems and officials in all fifty states, successfully breaching at least two of those states’ election systems, Illinois and Florida. …