This paper investigates the impact of ESG disclosure on corporate risk-taking and how this impact is further affected by CEO power and incentives within US companies. We find that ESG disclosure decreases corporate risk-taking based on both accounting-based and market-based returns. Further, we...

This chapter explores the dynamic interactions between domestic social norms and international law over trade dispute resolution. Using empirical case studies involving China, EU, US, Korea and Japan, the paper investigates how the dyadic configuration of social norms regarding preferred dispute...

The rise of state-owned companies and sovereign wealth funds (together SOEs) poses many new questions for the regime of investor-state arbitration. Extant literature treats all SOEs the same and limits its focus to the doctrinal treatment of SOEs. This article, by studying Chinese SOEs,...

Managing U.S.-China relations is “the biggest geopolitical test of the 21st century. This Article explores a crucial, delicate part of that test: national security review of Chinese foreign investment. To address emerging threats from China, Congress passed the Foreign Investment Risk Review...