CLD newsletter #3

May 2023

 

China, Law and Development: Studying the Role of Law in China's Global Development
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Welcome
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In the fifth and final year of the “China, Law and Development” (CLD) project, we are engaged in a variety of activities to foster international and inclusive thinking on the role of Chinese law in global development. As part of our data collection efforts, we continue to pursue fieldwork opportunities, but we are also transitioning to more workshop and publication stages of our project. First, we are holding two major conferences this year, one in Asia and the other in North America:

  • May 29 & 30, “Chinese Law and Development: Views from Asia and Beyond,” co-hosted with the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore.
  • September 21 & 22, “US, China, and the Global South,” co-hosted with the Centre for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania.

Both will provide occasions to convene scholars from throughout the world to assess the state of the field. Second, we are working on a number of collaborative publications. We are excited to announce that, among these, A Casebook on Chinese Outbound Investment: Law, Policy, and Business, one of the first-ever sets of case studies of Chinese overseas investment and designed for teaching in law schools, business schools, and policy schools, will be published with Cambridge University Press next year. As part of our mandate to produce knowledge that is accessible to broad publics, the casebook will be published open access. Third, we are working on a number of initiatives to continue to grow the CLD network, and look forward to staying in touch with you on these developments.

Matthew S. Erie, J.D., PhD
Principal Investigator, "China, Law and Development"
Associate Professor, Member of Law Faculty
University of Oxford
May 2023

 

Recent and Forthcoming Publications
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Miriam Driessen, Trials of Trustworthiness Between Ethiopian lawyers and Chinese Clients, 45(2) Political and Legal Anthropology Review, (2022) 274. Available here.

Matthew S. Erie, Legal Systems Inside Out: American Legal Exceptionalism and China's Dream of Legal Cosmopolitanism, 44(3) U. Penn J. Int'l L. (2023) 731. Available here.

Matthew S. Erie, The Soft Power of Chinese Law, 61 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. (2023). Available here.

Matthew S. Erie, The Problem of Method in the Study of Transnational Dispute Resolution in 'Comparative and Transnational Dispute Resolution' 2023 (Shahla Ali, ed., Routledge). Available here.

Matthew S. Erie,  China and Islamic Finance: Past, Present, and Future, 6 Transnat'l Disp. Mgmt. (2022). Available here.

Matthew S. Erie, Mapping the Cosmopolitan Legal Imaginary: Recent Chinese Scholarship on Dispute Resolution, Am. J. Comp. L. (2022) 1-12. Available here.  

Matthew S. Erie & Jingjing Zhang, A Comparison of Inbound and Outbound Investment Regulatory Regimes in China: Focus on Environmental Protection in 'China and the WTO: 20 Years On' (Henry Gao, Damian Ross & Ka Zeng, eds., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). Available on SSRN here.

 

China's Global Capital and the Coronavirus: Views from Comparative Law and Regulation
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Asian Journal of Comparative Law Special Issue

This Special Issue from the CLD project explores the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on Chinese overseas direct investment and the concomitant forms of capital (symbolic, social, and political). It features collaborative research and writing by early career experts from around the world and examines how China, its trade partners, and transnational orders have responded to the pandemic through law and regulation across an array of fields: dispute resolution, legal services, immigration law and policy, digital surveillance, global health governance, and democratic fragility.

  • Matthew S. Erie, Civilisation on Pause – Introduction to special issue ‘China's Global Capital and the Coronavirus: Views from Comparative Law and Regulation, Asian J. Comp. L. (2023). First View available here.
  • Jingyuan Zhou, Yuan Wang, Ngozi Nwoko & Saeed Qadir, China's New Global Health Governance, Asian J. Comp. L. (2023). First View available here. 
  • Vivien Chen & Weitseng Chen, W. Chinese Investment in Malaysia: COVID-19, Democracy and Beyond, Asian J. Comp. L. (2023). First View available here. 
  • Michael Yip, Amasara Gajadeera, Justin Monsenepwo & Nuraiym Syrgak kyzy, The ‘Two Faces’ of Cross-border, Transactional Legal Practice During Covid-19: How and From Where Have Lawyers Mobilised China's Capital Flows Under Lockdown? Asian J. Comp. L. (2023). First View available here.
  • Ying Wu, Leigha Crout & Aleksandar Matković, All Roads Lead to Beijing? Shifts in Chinese Labour and Capital During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Asian J. Comp. L. (2023). First view available here.
  • Kai-Shen Huang, Enhui Shen, Monika Prusinowska, Ji Ma & Magdalena Łągiewska, COVID-19 and Dispute Resolution in China: Trends in Arbitration and Litigation, Asian J. Comp. L. (2023). First view available here. 
  • Marco Germanò, Ava Liu, Jacob Skebba & Bulelani Jili, Digital Surveillance Trends and Chinese Influence in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Asian J. Comp. L. (2023). First view available here.

 

CLD Research Briefs
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Research Briefs are written by CLD Research Associates and other members of the research team  and  provide snapshots of either preliminary or on-going research projects conducted on CLD-related issues. All CLD Research Briefs are available here.

November 2022:

  • Sovereign Debt Restructuring: The Potential Role of China in the Belt and Road Initiative in the Post COVID-19 Era, Charles Ho Wang Mak, University of Glasgow. Available here.
  • Access to Information on Chinese Investments Contracts in Zimbabwe: The Law vs Practice, Obert Bore, Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association. Available here.
  • A Legal Study of the Future of Chinese Infrastructure Development in the Western Balkans in the Light of the EU Rebuilding of Ukraine , Stanislav Gubenko, University of Luxembourg. Available here.
  • China-Africa “Legal Cooperation” on Investment Dispute Settlement: Current Practice and the Role of Europ e, Thembi Madalane, University of Szeged, Hungary. Available here.

Opinions expressed therein represent the personal views of the authors.

 

In the Media
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Jevans Nyabiage, Planned Hong Kong Mediation Centre to Bolster China’s Influence in Africa, South China Post (Nov. 20, 2022). Available here.