May 31, 2023
Presented by UNSW Law & Justice’s China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre and Singapore Management University’s Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy (SIDRA)
Event recording is available here.
China is promoting a new model of transnational economic governance through the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a high-level policy framework shaping China’s outward economic activities. China’s modes of governance under the BRI reflect some extent of complexity and internal inconsistency. China is both taking an increasingly strong position in existing international governance institutions, as well as finding new ways of governing and influencing through informal mechanisms. In dispute resolution, China also aims to play a more important role. Through its pragmatic and flexible approach, and the use of law as soft power and informalism as a form of ordering, China is developing a model that offers an alternative to the US-led model. On the other hand, China also appears to be taking a more legalized approach, not only by furthering its participation in established dispute resolution mechanisms but also by building its own dispute settlement institutions. This panel will explore the features of China’s dispute resolution approach in the BRI from different perspectives and discuss the implications of the China-led international economic order.
Speakers:
- Assistant Professor Mark Mclaughlin, Singapore Management University and SIDRA: "Investor-state mediation and China’s foreign investment complaints system"
- Professor Mark Feldman, Peking University School of Transnational Law, "Development of a Beijing-based international investment dispute resolution hub"
- Associate Professor Matthew Erie, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, "Soft power of Chinese Law"
- Professor Won Kidane, Seattle University School of Law, "China-Africa dispute settlement"
- Associate Professor Kun Fan, China International Business and Economic Law Centre, UNSW Law and Justice, "China’s informalism in dispute resolution of the BRI"
