Publications

Our original research on Chinese law and policy issues is of contemporary significance and research results are disseminated via leading publishers. 

Books

• Liang, Jieying (2018). Party Autonomy in Contractual Choice of Law in China. Cambridge University Press.
• Chen, Ge (2017). Copyright and International Negotiations: An Engine of Free Expression in China?. New York: Cambridge University Press. Book synopsis (2018). Recent Publications March 2018. Harvard Law Review 131(5): 1522. Book presented at Yale Law School’s 2017 Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference.

Journal articles & book chapters

• M Du & QJ Kong (2020), The Limits of the WTO in Shaping the Rule of Law in China, Journal of International Economic Law 23 (4). 
• M Du (2015), Explaining China's Tripartite Strategy Towards the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, Journal of International Economic Law 18 (2): 407-432. 
• M Du (2014), China's State Capitalism and World Trade Law, International and Comparative Law Quarterly 63 (2): 409-448. 
• M Du (2014). When China's National Champions Go Global: Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself, Journal of World Trade 48 (6): 1127- 1166.
• Chen, Benjamin Minhao & Li, Zhiyu (2019). Judicial Legitimation in China. Cornell International Law Journal.
• Li, Zhiyu (2018). Innovation Through Interpretation: How Judges Make Policy in China. Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law 26(2): 327-380.
• Chen, Benjamin Minhao & Li, Zhiyu (2017). The Foundations of Judicial Diffusion in China: Evidence from an Experiment. Review of Law & Economics 14(3): 1-27.
• Chen, Benjamin Minhao & Li, Zhiyu (2016). Explaining Comparative Administrative Law: The Standing of Positive Political Theory. Washington International Law Journal 25(1): 87-131.
• Chen, Ge (2014). Piercing the Veil of State Sovereignty: how China’s Censorship Regime into Fragmented International Law can Lead to a Butterfly Effect. Global Constitutionalism: Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law 3(1): 31-70.
• Liang, Jieying (2012). Statutory Restrictions on Party Autonomy in China's Private International Law of Contract: How Far does the 2010 Codification Go?. Journal of Private International Law 8(1): 77-112.

Newspaper op. ed. and media articles

• Chen, Ge (2018). How intellectual property and censorship have haunted a century of China-US trade talks. South China Morning Post (07 December).
• Chen, Ge (2018). US Free Speech vs China’s Censorship. YaleGlobal Online (04 December).
• Chen, Ge (2017). China’s Anti-Corruption Bill Exposes the Achilles’ Heel of Xi’s Legal Reforms. YaleGlobal Online (19 December).
• Chen, George G. & Stepan, Matthias (2017). Ruling the Country by Red-letterhead Documents?. China Policy Institute: Analysis (19 September).
• Chen, George G. & Shi-Kupfer, Kristin (2017). Massenhaft Nutzer – mangelhafter Datenschutz. Zeit Online (20 August).
• Chen, George G. & Wong, Tiffany G. (2017). Waiting for China’s Data Protection Law. The Diplomat (12 August).
• Chen, George Ge (2017). Le Droit, C’est Moi: Xi Jinping’s New Rule-By-Law Approach. Oxford Human Rights Hub (26 July).
• Chen, George G. (2017). Eine Metropole vom Reißbrett. Der Tagesspiegel (10 July).
• Chen, George G. (2017). Xiongan: A New City for the Xi Jinping Era. The Diplomat (30 May).
• Chen, George G. (2017). How Big a Deal is the New U.S.-China Trade Deal?, ChinaFile, A ChinaFile Conversation (16 May).
• Chen, Ge (2017). A chip of controlling free expression: why China wants to “trade” its copyright protection?. Cambridge Core Blog (6 April).
• Chen, George G. (2017). China’s New Circuit Tribunals Allow Tighter Control of Judiciary. Oxford Human Rights Hub (06 March).
• Chen, Ge (2017). Interview: The Annual Plenary Sessions of the State in the Eyes of a Chinese Scholar Living in Germany<专访：旅德华人学者眼中的两会>. Deutsche Welle (04 March).
• Chen, George G. (2017). TPP is Dead, Now What?. ChinaFile, A ChinaFile Conversation (31 January).
• Chen, George G. (2017). A national supervision system: the CCP’s new permanent anti-corruption campaign. MERICS Blog (12 January).
• Chen, George G. (2016). Why China relies on outsiders to get the inside story. MERICS Blog (02 November).
• Chen, George G. (2016). A Whitened White Paper on Human Rights. Oxford Human Rights Hub (19 September).
• Chen, George G. (2016). Is censorship bad for business? How trade laws could break through China’s Great Firewall. Asia Times (23 April).

Reports

• Chen, George G. & Shi-Kupfer, Kristin (2018). Wie China mit Personenbezogenen Daten Umgeht. Deutsch-Chinesische Plattform Innovation, Policy Briefs 2017 der deutschen Expertengruppe. Report for the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. 
• Chen, George G. & Stepan, Matthias (2017). Activating The National People’s Congress: Law-making on Behalf of the Party Center. MERICS China Monitor No. 37. 
• Chen, George G. & Shi-Kupfer, Kristin (2016). The Function of Judicial Reforms in Xi Jinping’s Agenda: Rectifying local governance through reforms of the judicial system. Heilmann, S & Stepan, Matthias. MERICS Paper on China No 1. China’s Core Executive: Leadership Styles, Structures and Processes under Xi Jinping. 64-69. 
• Chen, Ge (2015). Intellectual Property Law and Freedom: between the national and the international. CiGREF: Réseau de grandes entreprises.