Research

Recent Publications by CALS Faculty

Pitman B. Potter

• Pitman B. Potter, Exporting Virtue? China’s International Human Rights Activism in the Age of Xi Jinping (UBC Press, forthcoming 2020).
• Pitman B. Potter, “Human Rights and the Rule of Law: Implications for Canada-China Relations,” Philip Calvert and John Gruetzner, ed., An Assessment of 50 Years of Canada-China Relations, Canadian International Council, 2020, https://thecic.org/research/an-assessment-of-50-years-of-canada-china-relations/.
• Pitman B. Potter, " Labour Relations and Trade  Policy in China; Opportunities for Coordinated Compliance," invited chapter for Daniel Drache and Lesley Jacobs, ed., Grey Zones of International Economic Law: Global Governance and Policy Space (Vancouver: UBC Press, Forthcoming 2018)
• Pitman B. Potter, “Law and Art in China: Domination and Resistance” (2017) 58:1 Les Cahiers de droit.
• Pitman B. Potter, “China and the International Human Rights Regime: Orthodoxy, Resistance and Legitimacy” in Avery Goldstein and Jacques DeLisle, eds, China’s Global Engagement: Cooperation, Competition, and Influence in the 21st Century (Washington: Brookings, 2017) 291-324.
• Pitman B. Potter, “Coordinating human rights and trade policy in China: the case of environmental protection” in Potter and Ljiljana Biukovic, eds, Local Engagement with International Economic Law and Human Rights (London: Edward Elgar, May 2017).
• Pitman B. Potter and Ljiljana Biukovic, eds, Local Engagement with International Economic Law and Human Rights (London: Edward Elgar, May 2017).

Shigenori Matsui

• Shigenori Matsui, Nihonkoko Kenpo, "Japanese Constitutional Law" 4th Edition, (Tokyo: Yuhikaku 2022) 
• Shigenori Matsui, Pandemic: COVID-19 and the Public Health Emergency, (2021) 38:2 Arizona J. Int’l & Comp. L. 142-200
• Shigenori Matsui, "Hyougen no jiyuu ni mamoru kachi wa aruka [Freedom of Expression: Is It Still Worth Protecting?]" (Yuhikaku 2020), pp387. (examination of hate speech, terrorist facilitation speech, revenge porn, fake news, right to be forgotten and other contemporary topics)
• Shigenori Matsui, "Judicial Review of Restrictions on Constitutional Rights in Japan: Highly Ad Hoc, Contextualized and Deferential, in Po Jen Yap ed, Proportionality in Asia" (Cambridge 2020), at 140
• Shigenori Matsui, "Law and Disaster: Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Meltdown in Japan" (Routledge 2019)
• Shigenori Matsui, "Is Law Killing the Development of New Technologies?: Uber and Airbnb in Japan", 25 Boston U. J. Science & Technology L 100 (2019)
• Shigenori Matsui, "Amerika kenpo nyumon [Introduction to American Constitution] (8^th ed. Yuhikaku 2018)
• Shigenori Matsui, "Hanzai kagaisha to hyougen no jiyu: Son of Sam ho wo kangaeru [Criminal Offenders and Freedom of Expression: ”Son of Sam Law” and the Crime Victims "(Iwanami 2018)
• Shigenori Matsui et al., Hajimeteno houritsugaku [Introduction to Law], 5^th ed (Tokyo: Yuhikaku 2017).
• Shigenori Matsui, Kanada no songenshi/anrakushiho ni tsuite [On Assisted Dying Law in Canada], (2016) 88:9 Horitsujiho 82-91.
• Shigenori Matsui, “Kanada kara mita France kenpo—Quebec shu toiu dokuji no shakai” [French Constitution from Canadian Perspective: Quebec as a Distinct Society] in Miyoko Tusjimura, ed, Seiji hendo to rikkenshugi no tenkai [Political Change and Development of Constitutionalism] (Tokyo: Shinzansha 2017) 183-213.
• Shignori Matsui, "T-Rex, Jurassic Park and Nuclear Power: Nuclear Power Plants and the Courts after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident", 42 William & Mary Environmental L & Policy Rev 145 (2017)
• Shigenori Matsui, “Does It Have to Be a Copyright Infringement?: Live Game Streaming and Copyright” (2016) 24 Texas Intellectual Property L J 215-44.
• Shigenori Matsui, “The Challenge to Multiculturalism: Hate Speech Ban in Japan” (2016) 49 UBC L Rev 427-84.
• Shigenori Matsui, “Never Had a Choice and Have no Power to Alter”: Illegitimate Children and the Supreme Court of Japan, Ga J Intern’l and Comp L 577 (2016)

Jie Cheng

• Jie Cheng, “Paths of Justice” (Book Review), (2019) 27:2 Asia Pacific Law Review, DOI: 10.1080/10192557.2019.1691819
• Jie Cheng, “The Judiciary and Human Rights in India: A Comparative Study”, (Forthcoming, 2019/2020) Vol. Issue Tsinghua Journal of Rule of Law.
• Wei Cui, Jie Cheng & Dominika Wiesner, “Judicial Review of Government Actions in China” (2019) 1 China Perspectives 35-44. (English version. The French version has separate pages)
• Jie Cheng, “Hong Kong’s Constitutional Order under the Asymmetric Governance Structure” (2018) 5 China Law Review 179-186.  （《不对称治理格局下香港的宪制基础与宪法适用》，《中国法律评论》2018年第5期，第179-186页。）
• Jie Cheng, “A Preliminary Investigation of the Quasi-Constitutional Review System in China” (2018) 36:3 Tribune of Political Science and Law 3-13. （《中国的准违宪审查制度初探》，《政法论坛》2018年第3期。）
• Jie Cheng, “Executive-Led Government and Hong Kong’s Constitutional Development” in Guobin Zhu, ed, Hong Kong’s Political System Theory and Development (Hong Kong: Hong Kong City University Press, 2017).
• Jie Cheng, “Central Government and Hong Kong’s Constitutional Development: A Mid-Path Approach” in Guobin Zhu, ed, Hong Kong’s Political System Theory and Development (Hong Kong: Hong Kong City University Press, 2017).
• Jie Cheng, “Application of Balancing Test in Open Government Information Law” in Lingyun Yu, ed, Open Government Information Practice in China (Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2016) 161-174.
• Jie Cheng, “Qualification Restaint or Economic Control: An Institutional Framework for Abusive FOIA Application” (2017) 2 Tsinghua L J 126-138.
• Jie Cheng, “Part III Open Government Information Cases” in Beijing Municipal Government Legislative Affairs Office, ed, Beijing Municipal Administrative Reconsideration Cases Selection 2016 (Volume II) (2017) 1-111.

Wei Cui

• W. Cui，《行将实施的数字服务税》，《财政科学》，2020年第8期，139-151 页 (Chinese translation of “The Digital Services Tax on the Verge of Implementation,” 56(8) Fiscal Science 139-151, 2020).
• W. Cui and J. Wan, “Decentralizing Legislation in China’s Law on Legislation Amendment,” Hong Kong Law Journal 49(2), 665-696(2019)
• W. Cui, J. Cheng and D. Weisner, “Judicial Review of Government Actions” (Le contrôle juridictionnel des actions gouvernementales en Chine), China Perspectives/Perspectives chinoises 2019, Issue 1, 29-38 (2019) (symposium in English and French)
• 艾伦·申克、维克多·瑟仁伊、崔威合著，《增值税比较研究》，熊伟、任宛立译， 商务印书馆2018年 (Chinese translation of A. Schenk, V. Thuronyi and W. Cui, Value Added Tax: A Comparative Approach, published by Commercial Press, 2018)
• Wei Cui and Zhiyuan Wang, “The Selection of Litigation against Government Agencies: Evidence from a Civil Law System”, online: (2017) Review of Law and Economics.
• Wei Cui, “Does Judicial Independence Matter? A Study of the Determinants of Litigation Patterns in an Authoritarian Regime” (2017) 38:3 U Pa J Int’l L 941-998.
• Wei Cui, “The Legal Maladies of ‘Federalism, Chinese-Style’” in Weitseng Chen, ed, The Beijing Consensus? How China Has Changed the Western Ideas of Law and Economic Development and Global Legal Practices (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
• Wei Cui, “An Academic Viewpoint on Some Fundamental Aspects of the BEPS Project” in Sam Sim and Mei June Soo, eds, Asian Voices: BEPS and Beyond (IBFD, 2017)
• Wei Cui et al, “Profit shifting determinants of multinationals: evidence from a developing country”, Singapore Management University School of Accountancy Working Papers 2017
• Wei Cui,《提升江苏税收征管效能的国际借鉴研究》(Comparative Research for Enhancing the Tax Administrative Capacity of Jiangsu) (with G. Wei), Jiangsu Tax  Forum (《江苏税苑》) (2017)