New Book “Legal Dimensions of China’s Belt and Road Initiative” with Nine Chapters Authored by CUHK Faculty of Law Members Is Released
The Belt and Road (B&R) initiative was announced by China’s President Xi Jinping in 2013 and has been a topic of broad discussion at all levels since then. Despite the fact that its tremendous significance for local, regional and global developments is widely acknowledged the precise scope, aims and even the participating countries of the initiative are not yet clearly defined. This book discusses many of the open questions from the legal point of view with the goal to establish a framework for related policy initiatives and legislative projects, to serve as the basis for future research, but also to offer practical up-to-date guidance on the current status of the B&R initiative.
Together with other leading experts in their respective fields the following members from the Faculty of Law have contributed chapters to the book: Prof. Jyh-An Lee, Prof. Michelle Miao, Prof. Gonzalo Villalta Puig, Prof. Lutz-Christian Wolff, Prof. Chao Xi, Prof. Yan Xu and Prof. Mimi Zou.
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New Book “International Economic Law and Governance” Co-edited by CUHK’s Prof. Julien Chaisse Has Been Released by Oxford University Press
The book “International Economic Law and Governance” (Oxford University Press, 2016, 624 p.) addresses a broad spectrum of themes in contemporary international economic regulations and focuses specifically on the significant areas of Prof. Matsushita’s scholarship, including the rise of the soft-law mechanism in international economic regulation, the role of the WTO and dispute settlement, and specific areas such as competition, subsidies, anti-dumping, intellectual property, and natural resources. Part one of the volume provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of the rule-based international dispute settlement mechanisms; Part two investigates the normative influences to and from WTO law; and Part three focuses on policy and law-making issues.
Details of the book can be found here.
Prof. Samuli Seppänen Publishes a Book on the Rule of Law in China
Prof. Samuli Seppänen has published a new book entitled “Ideological Conflict and the Rule of Law in Contemporary China: Useful Paradoxes” (CUP 2016). The book studies ideological divisions within Chinese legal academia and their relationship to arguments about the rule of law.
The book describes argumentative strategies used by Chinese legal scholars to legitimize and subvert China’s state-sanctioned ideology. The book also examines Chinese efforts to invent new, alternative rule of law conceptions. In addition to this descriptive project, the book advances a more general argument about the rule of law phenomenon, insisting that many arguments about the rule of law are better understood in terms of their intended and actual effects rather than as analytic propositions or descriptive statements. To illustrate this argument, the book demonstrates that various paradoxical, contradictory and otherwise implausible arguments about the rule of law play an important role in Chinese debates about the rule of law.
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New Book “The Regulation of the Global Water Services Market” edited by CUHK’s Prof. Julien Chaisse Has Been Released by Cambridge University Press
As drinking water and wastewater services must be provided to many sectors of a nation’s economy, including its industrial, commercial, and residential sectors. This forms the scope of the water industry’s activities and it explains why the privatisation of water sanitation and water services has become a huge market and a much-debated issue in several jurisdictions. Historically the water industry has been run as a public service which is owned by the local or national government, recent trends suggest that the role of the private sector is increasing. The growing economic interests concerning water and wastewater services are generating a tension with the recent recognition of the human right to water and sanitation. This tension between human right and economic rules is the focus of this book, which reviews all the international rules that form the regulation of global water services.
“The Regulation of the Global Water Services Market” proposes a holistic legal analysis of the water services regulation, provides a comprehensive critical review of investment tribunals awards dealing with water services issues, and offers a detailed analysis of the hard law and soft law that apply to water services.
Details of the book can be found here.