Adversarial Comparativism: The Role of Emotion in U.S.-China Comparative Law Projects
29 April 2025
Matthew S. Erie
New Publication: A Casebook on Chinese Outbound Investment
05 March 2025
Edited by Matthew S. Erie
Inter-Asian Law: Introduction
11 December 2024
Matthew S. Erie and Ching-Fu Lin (eds)
Property as National Security
09 April 2024
Matthew S. Erie
Seeds of empire or seeds of friendship? The politics of the diffusion of Chinese cotton seeds in Tajikistan
26 March 2024
Irna Hofman
Chinese Law and Development: Implications for US Rule of Law Programs
31 October 2023
Matthew S. Erie
Foreign Policy Implications for China's "Foreign-Related 'Rule of Law'"
03 October 2023
Matthew S. Erie
A Comparison of Inbound and Outbound Investment Regulatory Regimes in China
15 September 2023
Matthew S. Erie and Jingjing Zhang
Legal Systems Inside Out: American Legal Exceptionalism and China's Dream of Legal Cosmopolitanism
03 May 2023
Matthew Erie
SI: 'China's Global Capital and the Coronavirus: Views from Comparative Law and Regulation'
21 April 2023
Papers from the CLD project
The Soft Power of Chinese Law
16 February 2023
Matthew Erie
China and Islamic Finance: Past, Present, and Future
22 December 2022
Matthew Erie
Trials of Trustworthiness Between Ethiopian lawyers and Chinese Clients
14 November 2022
Miriam Driessen
Mapping the Cosmopolitan Legal Imaginary: Recent Chinese Scholarship on Dispute Resolution
15 September 2022
The Problem of Method in the Study of Transnational Dispute Resolution
21 June 2022
Matthew Erie
The Normative Anthropologist
05 May 2022
Matthew Erie
The Beijing Effect: China's "Digital Silk Road" as Transnational Data Governance
10 February 2022
Matthew Erie & Thomas Streinz
Is there a Chinese "Code of Capital"?
19 January 2022
Matthew Erie
Joint Symposium Issues: "China and the International Legal Order"
21 July 2021
Yale J. Int'l L. / Harvard Int'l L. J. / Oxford Uni.
China and Comparative International Law: Between Social Science and Critique
08 July 2021
Matthew Erie
"Law and Development Minus Legal Transplants: The Example of China in Vietnam"
29 April 2021
Matthew Erie and Ha Hai Do
The Future of Foreign Arbitration in the People's Republic of China: Current Developments and Challenges Ahead
15 April 2021
Chinese Property Ownership as a National Security Problem
01 March 2024
Matthew S. Erie
The Emergence of Inter-Asian Law: Normative Origins, Trajectories, and Contours
04 December 2023
Matthew Erie & Ching-Fu Lin
Just working for wood: life inside Tajikistan's silk industry
11 August 2022
Irna Hofman
A Brief History of Pakistan-China Legal Relations
02 December 2021
Matthew Erie
In the Interstices of Patriarchal Order: Spaces of Female Agency in Chinese-Tajik Labor Encounters
01 December 2021
Irna Hofman
Archipelagos of Chinese Law - Blog
25 June 2021
Matthew Erie
China's Influence in Global Data Governance Explained: The Beijing Effect
21 May 2021
May 21, 2021
Understanding China's Growing Influence in Global Data Governance
01 April 2021
April 1, 2021
Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness: A Conversation with Miriam Driessen
25 November 2019
October 25, 2019
Introducing the CLD Project: Analyzing China's Impact on Cross-Border Legal and Regulatory Order
07 October 2019
Erie, Matthew Steven
China's Mediation Revolution? Opportunities and Challenges of the Singapore Mediation Convention
28 August 2019
Corne, Peter and Erie, Matthew Steven
Update on the China International Commercial Court
13 May 2019
Erie, Matthew Steven
The "Arrangement Concerning Mutual Assistance" as a window onto the New Legal Hubs
08 April 2019
Erie, Matthew Steven
The China International Commercial Court: Prospects for Dispute Resolution for the "Belt and Road Initiative"
31 August 2018
Erie, Matthew Steven
One of the aims of the CLD project is to create a platform for knowledge exchange between and among young practitioners and scholars in China and host states on the topics of the legal and regulatory issues of Chinese outbound capital. Research Briefs, written by Research Associates and other members of the research team, provide snapshots of either preliminary or on-going research projects conducted on such issues. As such, they represent the cutting edge of scholarship on these concerns.
Opinions expressed therein represent the personal views of the authors and are not attributable to either their respective institutions or the University of Oxford.
Research Briefs, 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
Access to Information on Chinese Investments Contracts in Zimbabwe: The Law vs Practice
Obert Bore
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
China-Africa “Legal Cooperation” on Investment Dispute Settlement: Current practice and the role of Europe
Thembi Madalane
The Diplomatic and Legal Arrangements under which China Cooperates with European Trade Partners on BRI Deals and Financing
Joseph Cash (guest contributor)
National Champions as ‘Learning Institutions’: CSR Norm Acquisition by Chinese SOEs during the Belt and Road Initiative
Yuan Wang
China-Nigeria Oil-for-Infrastructure Deal: Addressing Opacity and Exclusion in the Award of Oil Drilling Rights
Ngozi S. Nwoko
Linglong and the Case of 750 Workers from Vietnam in Serbia
Aleksandar Matković
Current Developments in the Area of Recognition and Enforcement of Court Judgements in Civil and Commercial Matters between China and Other States
Monika Prusinowska
Research Briefs, 2021
Chi Zhang (guest contributor)
Sustainable Finance and Green BRI Practice in Africa and South Asia: A Response to the Changing International Political Order
Chi Zhang (guest contributor)
Chinese Disguised Investment in Vietnam
Do Hai Ha
City of London Law Firms Advising China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Study of Six Years of Engagement
Michael Yip
The Impact of Regime Changes and Culture on Foreign Investment: The Case of Chinese Investors in the Goldmines of Kyrgyzstan
Nuraiym Syrgak kyzy
Unraveling the Role of Local Lawyers and Law Firms in Chinese Investments in Brazil
Marco André Germanò
Legal Development Along the Belt and Road: How Extra-Legal Institutions Shape Foreign Investment and Development Prospects in Cambodia
Molly Bodurtha & Sokphea Young
Vaccine Equity: Mapping the Challenges
Kai-Shen Huang
Chinese Cotton Diplomacy in Tajikistan: Greasing the Ties by Reviving the Cotton Economy
Irna Hofman
Labour Law Compliance among Chinese Enterprises in Ethiopia
Miriam Driessen
China and the Global Economic Architecture: Approaching the Challenges of the 2020s
Uzma Ashraf Barton & Douglas Arner (guest contributors)
New Trends in Solving BRI-Related Disputes
Magdalena Łągiewska
The BRI Legal Frameworks and Caucasian Non-Recognition Obligations
Otari Kakhidze
Navigating Investments in Central Asia as Chinese Investors: A Case Study of Kyrgyzstan
Boguang Yang
Chinese Mining Companies and their Social License to Operate in Zambia
Jacqueline Muna Musiitwa
Economic Migration of African Migrants to China in the Era of COVID-19: Tensions and Transitions
Leigha Crout
Research Briefs, 2020
Environmental Litigation in BRI Host Countries
Lawrence J. Liu
Technology Transfer in China–Africa Trade Relations
Justin Monsenepwo Joost
The Digital Silk Road and China’s Role in the UN Ad Hoc Cybercrime Committee
Jacob Skebba
Hainan Free Trade Port: Concept, Challenges and Legislation
Zhang Mujun
Chinese Globalism at 20
Saeed Qadir
International Arbitration in China and its Prospects –How it is Promoted at the Local Level
Kai-Shen Huang
Left Behind: The Impact of China’s Mega-projects on Malaysia’s Marginalised
Vivien Chen
New Developments in the Hainan Free Trade Zone/Port and their Implications
Jingyuan Zhou
Chinese Surveillance Tools in Africa
Bulelani Jili
The Fate of Chinese Mega Projects in Myanmar in Light of Growing Sentiment Against Chinese Investors
Joel Liew Sze Kiong
The Questionable Legality and Prospects of Chinese Hydropower Dam Investments in Cambodia
Michael Leong Wen Wei
BRI vs. COVID-19
Matthew Erie
Gender Equality through the Belt and Road Initiative: Addressing Women’s Rights in Development
Ying Wu
Corporate Social Responsibility along the Chinese Financed Railway Mega-Project in East Africa
Maria Adele Carrai
Competing for Policy Enforcement: The Marketization of Commercial Arbitration in China
Kai-Shen Huang
Labor Protections for Overseas Chinese Workers: a Role for Chinese Courts?
Aaron Halegua
Research Briefs, 2019
A Glimpse into Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s Financing Practices
Jingyuan Zhou
Patronage and Clientelism of Chinese Investment in Cambodia
Sokphea Young
Resetting Multilateralism: China’s Globalism and Competition Policy
Saeed Qadir
Influence through Infrastructure: Contesting the Chinese-Built Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya
Ying Xia
The Context and Implications of AIIB Policy Conditionality Practices
Jacob Skebba
The Role of PRC Lawyers and Law Firms in Chinese Outbound Initiatives
Lawrence J. Liu
Chinese Weaponized Investments and the Rise of Screening Mechanisms in Europe
Maria Adele Carrai
BRITACOM: A New Multilateral Tax Administration Cooperation Mechanism under the Belt and Road Initiative
Zhang Mujun
Facilitating Migration of "Talented Human Resources" (Rencai) along the Belt and Road Initiative
Eva Lena Richter
Is the AIIB a Challenger or Harmonizer?
Steven Wang
Investment Arbitration Under OHADA Law: Advantages for Chinese Investments in Africa
Justin Monsenepwo
Update on the China International Commercial Court
Matthew S. Erie
Image credits:
Chinese propaganda posters (Research Briefs 2020): all images are part of the IISH / Stefan R. Landsberger / Private Collection; see chineseposters.net.
Risk maps (中国国际商事) [China International Chamber of Commerce], （做外贸的注意了！这份风险图请收好）[Those Engaged in Foreign Trade, Pay Attention! Please Consider This Risk Map] (Oct. 15, 2018), see here.
