After all the editors’ hard and conscientious work, Peking University Transnational Law Review published its Volume 2, Issue 2. This issue covers a broad area of law, including five articles, a book review, a student’s note and the Law Review’s supplemental rule for Bluebook on Chinese sources. You may access the digital version of this issue by visiting our website, or through various databases like HeinOnline, Lexis China, and Chinalawinfo. In the near future, Peking University Transnational Law Review will be available and accessible on Westlaw, LexisNexis, CNKI and other databases.
Peking University Transnational Law Review is committed to providing an important academic forum for scholarly debate with its unique transnational and comparative perspectives. The new issue will make a positive contribution to the legal scholarship, both domestic and international.
The articles include Professor Francis Snyder’s writing on the WTO Trade Policy Review Mechanism on China’s food safety issues and its influence on the reform of Chinese food safety law and improvement of food safety in China; Professor Nansulhun Choi and Professor Sang Yop Kang’s analysis of a chaebol (large family corporate groups) controller’s incentive mechanism, private benefit extraction, and the controlling minority structure in Korea; Professor Seth Chertok’s paper on why the joint agencies shouldn’t apply the Volcker Rule to private equity real estate funds; Professor Zhu Daming’s discussion on the origin and current situation of the institution of corporate divestiture in China, pointing out its existing problem and the possible way to reform; and Patrick Jiang’s article introducing a few critical misunderstandings about the precautionary principle in the context of EU law, and developing a clear and uniform interpretation of this principle.
Professor Mark Feldman’s book review discusses Karl P. Sauvant and Federico Ortino’s report Improving the International Investment Law and Policy Regime: Options for the Future and foresees the development of international investment law.
The student’s note written by Zhou Yu reveals a blind spot of the latest judicial reform proposal in China – the judicial mandate of its review authority, especially the authority mandate for the local courts.
