Determining the proper class of plaintiffs that might be allowed to sue an insider trader for damages has been a very difficult task. The article will first discuss the development of three main approaches to the issue, namely the privity approach, the contemporaneous trader approach and the...

This is a book chapter in Stephen M. Bainbridge (ed), 'Research Handbook on Insider Trading' (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2013). It provides an up-to-date discussion of Chinese insider trading regulation, covering the recently issued 2012 judicial interpretation on the handling of criminal...

This article aims to provide an in-depth and updated analysis of insider trading regulation in China, looking at both “law in books” and “law in action.” Since the early 1990s, China has gradually set up a regulatory regime for insider trading in line with international experiences....

The purpose of this article is to critically examine China's insider trading regulation, and based upon the results of such examination, set out reform proposals for China. With the benefit of overseas experience, in a relatively short period of time, China has made a remarkable achievement in...

This paper conducts the first comprehensive and systematic empirical analysis of all relevant insider trading cases in China since the birth of Chinese securities markets in the early 1990s and till middle 2017, shedding important light on the way in which China's insider trading law has been...