Columbia Journal of Asian Law
Volume 29, Number 2

Spring 2o16

CONTENTS

ARTICLES

Explaining the Failure of Environmental Law in China
Guangdong Xu, Michael Faure

Legal and Political Rights Advocacy in Wrongful Conviction Death
Penalty Cases in China: A Study of the Leping Case of Injustice
Jue Jiang 96

Criminalization of Drug Trafficking in Vietnam: Developments and
Challenges
Hoa Phuong T. Nguyen, Gregory L. Rose 146

Is There a Way in the Labyrinth of Treaty Norms Leading to the
Applicable Rule?: Investor-State Investment Settlement under the
China-Korea FTA, China-Japan-Korea BIT and China-Korea BIT
Qingjiang Kong 178

NOTES

The Return of Private Banks? Grass-Root Lending Institutions
in China
Wei Liu 245

The Philippines v. China Jurisdictional Award and its Implications
for the Republic of Korea
Henri Fron -8



Columbia Journal of Asian Law
Editorial Board, 2015-2016

Editors-in-Chief
Karman Lucero

Managing Editors
Hyun Jee Ellie Cho

Submissions Editor
David S. Hong
Kelsey K. Wong

Business Editor
Elisa Zheng

Articles Editors
Mara Tara Amoco Lianchen Liu Wei Liu

Mercado

Staff Editors
Shaya Afshar

Apinop Atipiboonsin
Surya Bala

Daniel Crandall
Jui-Ping Chiang

Haili Ding
Henri Feron

Alexandra Kim
Jing Li

Mary Prager
Guatam Rao
Kumarjit Ray
Randolf Salas

Yi Wang
Jessica Yoon

Board of Directions
Benjamin Liebman Curtis Milhaupt Jeong-Ho Roh

Director Emeritus
R. Randle Edwards