AbstractJoe Zhixiong Zhou v SAIF Partners II L.P. is a recent judgment of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal which concerns a dispute between a private equity fund and its

former partner. This judgment, written by Lord Hoffmann NPJ and substantially shorter than those handed down by the lower courts, has several important implications. [...]

AbstractThis article seeks to explain the current doctrine of administrative unworkability as it applies to discretionary trusts in the context of English trust law with a

view to identifying some of its problems and suggesting a reframing of the doctrine in terms of economic viability in the light of modern information technology. [...]

AbstractThis article looks at a recent judgment of the Royal Court of Jersey in which two of the five executors sought relief from the Court aimed at breaking the deadlock

which had plagued the administration of the estate for much of its 19 years. The Court agreed to a request to delegate the final stages of the administration (which [...]

AbstractSupporting institutions and policies play a key role in facilitating upgrades to product quality among manufacturing firms. However, the emergence of quality-supporting

institutions has not been well studied. Based on qualitative and quantitative evidence in Chinese clusters, this paper shows that quality-enhancing institutions and [...]

AbstractThe decision of the Court of Appeal in the recent case of O’Neill v Holland was, on the one hand, a useful reminder that detrimental reliance is always part of the

necessary ingredients to establish a constructive trust of the family home.The Court of Appeal agreed that the District Judge, at trial, had misdirected herself on [...]

AbstractIn Mackay v Wesley the High Court, on appeal, ordered that a claimant’s acceptance of her appointment as trustee of an offshore trust should be rescinded and set

aside on the ground of undue influence. The claimant (Mrs Mackay), for whom the authors acted at first instance and on appeal, brought a claim on the grounds of undue [...]

AbstractThis article provides a critical analysis of the ‘good man’ theory of equity which suggests that equity requires defendants to act as good men by performing primary

obligations rather than providing compensation for breach. It examines the practical consequences of applying the theory in the contexts of disgorgement of bribes [...]

AbstractUsing new data at the police department level, I propose an identification strategy for estimating the causal effect that police militarization has on reducing violent

crime. I show that previous estimates are likely to be contaminated by unobserved factors that simultaneously determine militarization and violent crime. [...]

AbstractPrevious literature has explored the effects of economic conditions on voting behavior. In this article, I analyze how the economy affects legislative polarization.

Using recently available state legislator ideal point estimates, I find a strong negative relationship between state economic activity and political polarization. [...]

AbstractA low-quality patent system threatens to slow the pace of technological progress. Concerns about low patent quality are supported by estimates from litigation studies

suggesting that most US patents granted should not have been issued. We propose a new model for measuring patent quality, based on equivalent patent applications [...]