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APDR Master Paper Inventory

 

APDR Conference Papers and Presentations

• Thoughts Concerning the Discrimination Component of the Human Rights Project
  William Black
  The Asia Pacific Program on Dispute Resolution Research
  A Conference Jointly Hosted by the Faculty of Law (Hong Kong University) and the Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  Hong Kong
  January 9-10, 2004
  
  
• Treatment of A Local Subsidiary under Dispute Settlement Procedures in the International Investment Agreements: Japan, China and Hong Kong
  Iwase Maomi
  Miyakonojo National College of Technology
  The Asia Pacific Program on Dispute Resolution Research
  A Conference Jointly Hosted by the Faculty of Law (Hong Kong University) and the Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  Hong Kong
  January 9-10, 2004
  
  
• Cross-Cultural Conflict Resolution and Selective Adaptation
  Pitman B. Potter
  University of British Columbia
  The Asia Pacific Program on Dispute Resolution Research
  A Conference Jointly Hosted by the Faculty of Law (Hong Kong University) and the Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  Hong Kong
  January 9-10, 2004
  
  
• Some thoughts on the utilization of the WTO trade dispute settlement mechanism in China
  Hou Fang
  Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
  The Asia Pacific Program on Dispute Resolution Research
  A Conference Jointly Hosted by the Faculty of Law (Hong Kong University) and the Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  Hong Kong
  January 9-10, 2004
  
  
• Eligibility for employment standards protection as a vehicle for testing the selective adaptation hypothesis in human rights
  Philip Bryden
  University of British Columbia
  The Asia Pacific Program on Dispute Resolution Research
  A Conference Jointly Hosted by the Faculty of Law (Hong Kong University) and the Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  Hong Kong
  January 9-10, 2004
  
  
• Brief Introduction to the International Trade Disputes Settlement in China
  Wang Shuliang
  Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
  The Asia Pacific Program on Dispute Resolution Research
  A Conference Jointly Hosted by the Faculty of Law (Hong Kong University) and the Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  Hong Kong
  January 9-10, 2004
  
  
• Ideas of Peace and Cross-cultural Dispute Resolution
  Bee Chen Goh
  Bond University, Queensland, Australia
  Exploring New Ideas in Dispute Resolution: International Trade, Human Rights and Selective Adaptation of Legal Cultures
  The Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  November 5-6, 2004
  
  
• Selective Adaptation of International Equality Norms Using Canada as a Test Case
  William Black
  University of British Columbia
  Exploring New Ideas in Dispute Resolution: International Trade, Human Rights and Selective Adaptation of Legal Cultures
  The Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  November 5-6, 2004
  
  
• Cultural Conflicts in Arbitration Affairs between China and Foreign Countries
  Gu Xiaorong & Liu Changqi
  Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
  Exploring New Ideas in Dispute Resolution: International Trade, Human Rights and Selective Adaptation of Legal Cultures
  The Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  November 5-6, 2004
  
  
• Selective Adaptation and Local Governance: Dynamics of Social and Economic Regulation
  Pitman B. Potter
  University of British Columbia
  Exploring New Ideas in Dispute Resolution: International Trade, Human Rights and Selective Adaptation of Legal Cultures
  The Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  November 5-6, 2004
  
  
• The Special Role in the Conflicts Between Chinese and Foreign Legal Cultures — The Implementer of Selective Adaptation
  Lin Yinmao
  Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
  Exploring New Ideas in Dispute Resolution: International Trade, Human Rights and Selective Adaptation of Legal Cultures
  The Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  November 5-6, 2004
  
  
• Some thoughts on the subsidy issues
  Hou Fang
  Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
  Exploring New Ideas in Dispute Resolution: International Trade, Human Rights and Selective Adaptation of Legal Cultures
  The Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  November 5-6, 2004
  
  
• Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Northeast China
  Jaeyoun Won
  Exploring New Ideas in Dispute Resolution: International Trade, Human Rights and Selective Adaptation of Legal Cultures
  The Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  November 5-6, 2004
  
  
• Globalization and Local Culture in Contracts: Japanese Companies in Thailand
  Yoshitaka Wada
  Waseda University
  Exploring New Ideas in Dispute Resolution: International Trade, Human Rights and Selective Adaptation of Legal Cultures
  The Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  November 5-6, 2004
  
  
• Basic situation of China’s human right on health and housing
  Weidong He
  Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
  Exploring New Ideas in Dispute Resolution: International Trade, Human Rights and Selective Adaptation of Legal Cultures
  The Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  November 5-6, 2004
  
  
• Patient Bills of Rights: Problems of Legal Consciousness and Informal Justice
  Les Jacobs
  York University
  Exploring New Ideas in Dispute Resolution: International Trade, Human Rights and Selective Adaptation of Legal Cultures
  The Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  November 5-6, 2004
  
  
• Recent Develops in Corporate Governance in Japan
  Masao Nakamura
  University of British Columbia
  The Joint SASS-UBC/IAR Exploratory Workshop on Corporate Governance
  Shanghai Academy of Social Science
  July 18, 2005
  
  
• DYAD and Network: Models of Manufacturer-Supplier Collaboration in the Japanese TV Manufacturing Industry
  Didier Guillot
  INSEAD Singapore
  James R. Lincoln
  Berkeley
  The Joint SASS-UBC/IAR Exploratory Workshop on Corporate Governance
  Shanghai Academy of Social Science
  July 18, 2005
  
  
• Modelling an effective corporate governance system for China’s Listed State-Owned Enterprises: Issues and Challenges in a Transitional Economy
  Lay-Hong Tan
  Nanyang Business School
  Jiangyu Wang
  National University of Singapore
  The Joint SASS-UBC/IAR Exploratory Workshop on Corporate Governance
  Shanghai Academy of Social Science
  July 18, 2005
  
  
• The impact of two models of labour relations on the industrial system reform in China/Influences the two labour relations models have on China’s industrial system reform
  Yang Pengfei
  Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
  The Joint SASS-UBC/IAR Exploratory Workshop on Corporate Governance
  Shanghai Academy of Social Science
  July 18, 2005
  
  
• Grabbing Hand and Corporate Governance in China
  Wei Chi
  Kansas State University
  Yijiang Wang
  University of Minnesota
  The Joint SASS-UBC/IAR Exploratory Workshop on Corporate Governance
  Shanghai Academy of Social Science
  July 18, 2005
  
  
• Global Competition Governance — A step towards constitutionalisation of the WTO
  Ljiljana Biukovic
  University of British Columbia
  Exploring New Ideas in Dispute Resolution: International Trade, Human Rights and Selective Adaptation of Legal Cultures
  The Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  November 5-6, 2004
  
  
• Research on Social Conditions of Radification of International Labor Standards in China
  Yang Pengfei
  Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
  Exploring New Ideas in Dispute Resolution: International Trade, Human Rights and Selective Adaptation of Legal Cultures
  The Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  November 5-6, 2004
  
  
• Comparative Researches on Judicial Hierarchy
  Fu Yulin
  Peking University School of Law
  Exploring New Ideas in Dispute Resolution: International Trade, Human Rights and Selective Adaptation of Legal Cultures
  The Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  November 5-6, 2004
  
  
• Study on the Protection of Minority Shareholders’ Interests in Chinese Law
  Wang Shuliang
  Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
  Exploring New Ideas in Dispute Resolution: International Trade, Human Rights and Selective Adaptation of Legal Cultures
  The Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  November 5-6, 2004
  
  
• The National Treatment Enjoyed by a Foreign Trader in China’s Court
  Wang Shuliang
  Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
  
  
• Law, Legal Culture and Conflicts
  Lin Yinmao
  Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
  Exploring New Ideas in Dispute Resolution: International Trade, Human Rights and Selective Adaptation of Legal Cultures
  The Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  November 5-6, 2004
  
  
• Property Law: Principles of Implementation of Damage and Compensation Awards
  Lin Yinmao
  Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
  
  
• ‘Hope for Protection and Hopeless Choices’ Labor Legal Aid in the PRC
  Mary E. Gallagher
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbour
  Exploring New Ideas in Dispute Resolution: International Trade, Human Rights and Selective Adaptation of Legal Cultures
  The Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  November 5-6, 2004
  
  
• Electronic Government Procurement — Regulations and Implementation Strategy
  Samuel Hu
  University of British Columbia
  International Convention of Asian Scholars
  Shanghai, China
  July 2005
  
  
• Investor Protection: a comparative framework between securities regulations in Hong Kong and Mainland China
  Matthew Au
  University of British Columbia
  International Convention of Asian Scholars
  Shanghai, China
  July 2005
  
  
• Dispute Resolution in Chinese Diaspora: Confucian Traditions and Canadian Challenges
  Karenjot Bhangoo
  George Mason University
  International Convention of Asian Scholars
  Shanghai, China
  July 2005
  
  
• Resolving Commercial Disputes through Arbitration in China
  Aiqin Zhang
  University of British Columbia
  Exploring New Ideas in Dispute Resolution: International Trade, Human Rights and Selective Adaptation of Legal Cultures
  The Institute of Asian Research (University of British Columbia)
  November 5-6, 2004
  
  
• Rights at Work During the SARS Crisis: Comparing Legal Consciousness in Toronto and Shanghai
  Lesley Jacobs
  York University
  International Convention of Asian Scholars
  Shanghai, China
  July 2005
  
  
• Where Do New Institutions Come From? The Emergence of Japanese Law Schools
  Mayumi Saegusa
  University of Illinois at Chicago
  International Convention of Asian Scholars
  Shanghai, China
  July 2005
  
  
• Compliance with International Treaties-Selective Adaptation Analysis
  Ljiljana Biukovic
  University of British Columbia
  APDR Second Annual Conference
  Tokyo, Japan
  November 25-26, 2005
  
  
• Mediation of Human Rights Disputes — Adaptation of Adjudicatory and Mediation Norms
  William W. Black
  University of British Columbia
  APDR Second Annual Conference
  Tokyo, Japan
  November 25-26, 2005
  
  
• Issues to do with International Treaties and Social Norms
  Anna Olsen
  University of Melbourne
  APDR Second Annual Conference
  Tokyo, Japan
  November 25-26, 2005
  
  
• Selective Adaptation and Competition Policy in Japan
  Richard Schwindt
  Simon Fraser University
  Devin McDaniels
  University of British Columbia
  APDR Second Annual Conference
  Tokyo, Japan
  November 25-26, 2005
  
  
• Theoretic analysis of the low success rate of collective contracts in China
  Yang Pengfei
  Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
  APDR Second Annual Conference
  Tokyo, Japan
  November 25-26, 2005
  
  
• State Enterprises and Government Subsidies
  (abstract – paper forthcoming)
  Hou Fang
  Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
  APDR Second Annual Conference
  Tokyo, Japan
  November 25-26, 2005
  
  
• Transparency and Local Autonomy
  Pitman B. Potter
  University of British Columbia
  APDR Second Annual Conference
  Tokyo, Japan
  November 25-26, 2005
  
  
• Free Trade Agreements and Japan
  (Summary – paper forthcoming)
  Nao Kashiwagi
  University of British Columbia
  International Conference of Asian Scholars
  Shanghai, China
  August 2005
  
  
• Issue Paper: On Housing: Prepared for the Human Rights Group, UBC Cross-Cultural Dispute Resolution Project
  Hiroo Sono
  Hokkaido University
  APDR Planning Meeting
  May 2004
  
  
• Limits to Cultural Relativism: Selective Adaptation and Treaty Compliance In Trade and Human Rights
  Pitman B. Potter
  University of British Columbia
  Canadian Council of International Law
  Ottawa, Ontario
  October 2005
  
  
• Selective Adaptation and Institutional Capacity: Perspectives on Human Rights in China
  Pitman B. Potter
  University of British Columbia
  Canadian Council of International Affairs
  Ottawa, Ontario
  October 2005
  
  
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canada and Japan: Sector-Specific Estimates and Managerial and Economic Implications
  Masao Nakamura
  University of British Columbia
  Hitoshi Hayami
  Keio University
  Annual conference of the Association of Japanese Business Studies and the Academy of International Business at the Guanghua School of Management
  Peking University
  June 22-25, 2006
  

 

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