Research Grants

  • Hong Kong Insolvency and Restructuring Law and Policy in Times of COVID-19 and Beyond
    Prof WAN Wai Yee

    With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of insolvency filings by otherwise economically

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  • To Litigate or Not To Litigate at the World Trade Organization? A Comparative Investigation of the Determinants of Dispute Initiation at the WTO
    Prof CHAISSE Julien

    The dispute settlement mechanism (DSM) adopted by the World Trade Organization (WTO) is rarely an

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  • Does the Gender of Judges Matter? An Empirical Study of Chinese Divorce Lawsuits involving Domestic Violence
    Dr DING Chunyan

    Domestic violence is a pressing socio-legal problem in China although the government promulgated

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  • Incentivizing Private Antitrust Enforcement to Promote Leniency Applications: Experimental Evidence
    Dr LAI Sin Chit Martin

    In the field of antitrust, there are different kinds of anti-competitive behaviors. Among all these

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  • Impact of Sea-level Rise on Baselines and Islands: Theoretical and Practical Concerns for the South China Sea Dispute and Disputes in the Asia-Pacific Region
    Dr LANDO Massimo

    Rising sea levels threaten both the physical existence of several small island States and the legal

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  • Corporate Compliance and Big Data Governance: China’s Corporate Social Credit System
    Dr LIN Lauren Yu-Hsin

    China’s corporate social credit system (CSCS) is a big data project aimed at evaluating the

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  • Improving Hong Kong’s Maritime Services: A critical assessment and optimisation of Admiralty Enforcement including ship arrest and limitation of liability procedure
    Prof TSIMPLIS Michael

    Hong Kong is the 4th largest ship register in tonnage and the 8th largest container port in the

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  • Judicial Approach to Restricting Religious Freedom of Protestant House Churches in China
    Dr WANG Shucheng Peter

    This project seeks to explore the judicial approach to restricting the freedom of Protestant house

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  • The Decision Making on Corporate Guarantee Cases in Chinese Courts
    Dr LIN Lauren Yu-Hsin .....
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  • The Politics of Corporate Governance in Chinese Firms
    Dr LIN Lauren Yu-Hsin

    The Politics of Corporate Governance in Chinese Firms

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