China has embarked on major economic liberalization reform with the ascension of former President Deng Xiaoping since the late 1970s, which reestablished its national securities markets during the early 1990s. Today, China ...

In this dissertation, through four separately published articles, I address several contentious questions with regard to offensive cyberspace capabilities and the role of international law in the digital era. Offensive ...

This thesis aims to deconstruct the notion of policy space in international trade law. It presents the idea of “unpacking policy space” to suggest that policy space is not merely a concept relating to what room for policy ...

This thesis examines responses at the international, national and local levels to severe natural hazards that produce large-scale displacement. Its focus is on east and southeast Asia, a region that is particularly exposed ...

Over the last two decades, the state-owned or state invested enterprises (SOEs) of emerging economies like China and India have significantly increased their participation in cross border trade and investment activities. ...

In this dissertation I explain civil procedure in the age of the administrative state as a congressional delegation to private enforcers and the judiciary that happens often at the ‘cost of’ or ‘as an alternative to’ ...

Reports of how some bystanders interact with victims on the scene of an emergency are shocking: instead of assisting or calling for help they take pictures of the victims on their cell phones. In the common law of torts ...

This dissertation seeks to develop an account of genocidal intent from a collectivist perspective. Drawing upon the two-layered structure of the crime of genocide composed of the ‘conduct level’ and ‘context level,’ this ...