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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5704-0308
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FvKZVlsAAAAJ
Dr. Yueming Yan is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She has been researching and teaching in areas of international trade law, international investment arbitration and policy, dispute resolution, sustainable development, China’s laws, comparative law, and empirical legal studies. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of International Economic Law, the Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy, and in the edited collections published by Routledge and Edward Elgar. Her PhD dissertation – Improving international investment law’s treatment of (anti-) corruption: Towards a more balanced approach – was awarded the 2022 Award on International Investment Arbitration Law in memory of Piero Bernardini. Yueming is also an Assistant Editor of the Asian Yearbook of International Economic Law (Springer).
Yueming has engaged in many training programs for government officials from around the world and instructed sessions on managing international investment treaty commitments and exploring innovative mechanisms for multi-party dispute resolution. Before joining CUHK Law, Yueming was a Visiting Assistant Professor and a Global PhD Fellow at Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law and Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., McGill University
- LL.M., Xiamen University
- LL.B., Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- A New Chapter in China’s Stance on Labour Protection? An Assessment of the China-EU CAI, Journal of International Economic Law, Vol.25, Issue 3, 464-483 (2022).
- The Inclusion of Anti-Corruption Clauses in International Investment Agreements and Its Possible Systemic Implications, Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy, Vol.17, Issue 1, 141-173 (2022).
- Anti-Corruption Provisions in International Investment Agreements: Investor Obligations, Sustainable Considerations, and Symmetric Balance, Journal of International Economic Law, Vol.23, Issue 4, 989-1013 (2020).
- “Investment and Sustainable Development in the Implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative” in Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger & Sean Stephenson eds., Research Handbook on Investment Law & Sustainable Development (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming) (with Manjiao Chi).
- “China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Opportunities and Challenges in the Dimension of International Investment Law”, in Frank Emmert ed., Textbook on International Investment Law (Council on International Law and Politics, forthcoming).
- “References to International Anti-Corruption Conventions in International Investment Arbitration and International Investment Agreements” in Régis Bismuth, Jan Dunin-Wasowicz & Philip M. Nichols, eds., The Transnationalization of Anti-Corruption Law (Routledge, 2021) 447-466.
- “A Comprehensive Chapter on Anti-Corruption in the China-EU CAI: A Progressive or an Unnecessary Step?” in Yuwen Li, Tong Qi & Cheng Bian, eds., China, the EU and International Investment Law: Reforming Investor-State Dispute Settlement (Routledge, 2019) 227-242.
- A Book Review on Petros C. Mavroidis “The WTO Dispute Settlement System: How, Why and Where?”, Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy, Vol.17, Issue 2, 555-563 (2022).
- Is the CETA Joint Committee about to Issue Its first Joint Interpretation of the Investment Chapter? Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 7 December 2022.