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Prof. CHAISSE Julien 夏竹立副教授
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Professor Chaisse is an award-winning specialist in international economic law with particular expertise in the regulation and economics of foreign investment. He has frequently been invited by various universities or institutions around the world to present his research results and has written well-regarded and widely cited articles on topics ranging from the rise of sovereign wealth funds, the new trend of the EU investment law to the challenges of the WTO decision-making. He is also the author or editor of books and book chapters published by leading publishers, such as Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Routledge. In addition, he has published in the top refereed journals of international economic law, such as Journal of International Economic Law, Journal of World Trade, European Law Journal and Journal of World Investment and Trade, as well as in international law journals published by US universities such as Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Colorado. In recognition of his outstanding scholarly achievements to date, Prof. Chaisse received the CUHK Research Excellence Award in 2012. Apart from his academic activities, Prof. Chaisse regularly provides consulting service to international organizations, governments, private investors and multinational law firms on cutting-edge issues of international economic law.
Among his other projects, Prof. Chaisse, along with economist Dr. Christian Bellak, has created the BITsel Index, an innovative international research website focused on the impact of investment treaties on FDI flows. The BITsel Index allows a better analysis of the effects of investment treaties on capital flows and a finer appreciation of to what extent such agreements have driven investors’ strategies. Through the development of this Index, he has investigated the evolution of the international law of foreign investment across relevant agreements and aims to discern patterns of congruence and divergence across substantive disciplines and practices among regions, countries and major stakeholders, such as sovereign wealth funds.
Meanwhile, he is currently active in the following renowned organizations as Member, Expert Member or Associate Member: the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), the UNCTAD World Investment Network, the Association for International Arbitration (AIA), the European China Law Studies Association (ECLS), the Asian Society of International Law (ASIL), the European Society of International Law (ESIL) Interest Group ‘EU as a Global Actor’, and the Asian WTO Research Network (AWRN).
Prof. Chaisse teaches mainly in the fields of international trade and investment law. He has also taught a variety of other courses ranging from constitutional law and legal research to world politics, international law and international economics. He has held visiting Professorships at the Institute of International Law in Wuhan University (China), Yokohama National University (Japan), George Mason University American College Programe (Switzerland), Vienna University of Business and Economics (Austria), Riga University (Latvia), IEP d’Aix-en-Provence (France), and Antwerp University (Belgium). He has also frequently been invited to give legal training courses for mid- and high-level officers in a number of Asian and European countries (such as the Malaysia Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations, the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations ESCAP, the European Commission, and the Verwaltungsakademie des Bundes (Austria).
Education
- Ph.D. in Law (doctorat d’Etat en droit), University of Aix-Marseille, France
- Postgraduate Diploma in International Trade Law, Academy of International Trade Law
- LL.M. European Law (master de droit), University of Rennes I, France
- M. Phil. International Law, University of Tübingen, Germany
- LL.B. (licence de droit), University of Aix-Marseille, France
Awards
- Chinese University of Hong Kong ‘Research Excellence Award 2012’ for outstanding research
- University of Aix-Marseille European Award 2009’ for the Best Law PhD Thesis
Appointments
- Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law (since 2009)
- World Trade Institute, Switzerland, Senior Research Fellow (2006-2009)
- Sciences-Po Aix, France, Lecturer (2004-2006)
- French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Embassy of France in India (CSH) (2002-2004)
Research Interests
- Transnational Law
- International law of foreign investment
- Multinational Enterprises and the law
- Law of the World Trade Organisation
Research Projects
- ‘Do bilateral investment treaties increase foreign direct investment flows - Revisiting the role of legal parameters in economic empirical research’ as co-investigator with Prof. Christian Bellak (Forschungsprojekt ‘Vielfalt von Bilateralen Investitionsverträgen‘), supported by the Vienna University of Business and Economics (WU), Arbeitskammer Vienna (Austria), the CUHK Cheng Foundation Fund (No.I12076) and New Asia College CUHK
- ‘Hong Kong Foreign Direct Investment Profile’, supported by CUHK New Asia College and by the the Chiap Hua Cheng’s Foundation Fund in cooperation with Columbia University, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
- ‘United States of America and China Trade Litigation in the WTO’ (我国入世以来利用WTO争端解决机制解决中美贸易争端的实践与经验研究) Chinese Ministry of Education (No. 12JJD790022) with Prof. LUAN Xinjie
Representative Publications
Books
- Expansion of Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in Asia – Strategic and Policy Challenges (London: Routledge, 2011) 308 p.
Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
- Competitiveness of ASEAN Economies – Corporate and Regulatory Drivers (Northampton: Edward Elgar, Peter J. Buckley’s series on New Horizons in International Business, 2010) 336 p. (co-edited)
Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
- Essays on the Future of the World Trade Organisation I - Policies and Legal Issues (Geneva: Edis, 2008) 384 p. (co-edited with Tiziano Balmelli)
Full text: EDIS Publisher (Purchase)
- Essays on the Future of the World Trade Organisation II - WTO Judicial System (Geneva: Edis, 2008) 480p. (co-edited with Tiziano Balmelli)
Full text: EDIS Publisher (Purchase)
- Ensuring the Conformity of Domestic with the Law of the World Trade Organisation – India as a case study (New Delhi: Rajdhani Press/CSH, 2005) 188p.
Full text: Publisher (Free)
Book Chapters
- ‘The Regionalization of Investment Treaty Arrangements in Asia-Pacific – The TPP as a NAFTA-related ‘codification’ and beyond’’ in Jansen Calamita (ed) Current Issues in Investment Treaty Law V, (London: British Institute of International and Comparative Law , forthcoming 2014)
- ‘Greek Bonds, Collective Action Clauses and Investment Treaty Commitments’ in Chin Leng Lim and Bryan Mercurio (eds) International Economic Law after the Crisis: a tale of fragmented disciplines, (London: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2014)
- ‘The Regulation of Sovereign Wealth Funds in the European Union’ in Karl P. Sauvant and Lisa Sachs (eds) Sovereign Investment: Concerns and Policy Reactions, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012) 462-495
- ‘Foreign Investment in the Trans-Pacific Partnership – Towards Innovations in Investment Rule-Making?’ in Chin Leng Lim, Deborah Elms, Patrick Low (eds) The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – A Quest for Twenty-first Century Trade Agreement, (London: Cambridge University Press, 2012) 147-170
- ‘国际投资协定与中国境外投资’ (International Investment Treaties and China Outbound Investments) in Lutz-Christian Wolff (ed) 中国境外投资实务指南- 第八部分(China Outbound Investments – A Guide to Law and Practice) (Beijing/Hong Kong: Kluwer CCH, 2012) 147-164
- ‘The Regulatory Framework of International Investment: The Challenge of Fragmentation in a Changing World Economy’ in Thomas Cottier and Panagiotis Delimatsis (eds) The Prospects of International Trade Regulation – From Fragmentation to Coherence (London: Cambridge University Press 2011) 417-451
- ‘Non-economic Norms in the World Trade Organisation Litigation’ in Yves Schemeil & Wolf-Dieter Eberwein (eds) Normer le Monde: L’énonciation des normes internationales (Paris: L’Harmattan – Logiques Juridiques, 2009) 225-248
Journal Articles
- ‘Maintaining the WTO's Supremacy in the International Trade Order - A Proposal to Refine and Revise the Role of the Trade Policy Review Mechanism’ (2013) 16(1) Journal of International Economic Law
- ‘Investment or Health? Can exception clauses play a role in balancing foreign investment protection and domestic tobacco control?’ (2013) 39(2/3) American Journal of Law & Medicine
- ‘Deconstructing Services and Investment Negotiations’ (2013) 14(1) Journal of World Investment and Trade 44-78
- ‘The Evolving and Multilayered European Union-India Investment Relations - Regulatory Issues and Policy Conjectures’ (2012) 19(2) European Law Journal 302-345
- ‘Promises and Pitfalls of the European Union Policy on Foreign Investment’ (2012) 15(1) Journal of International Economic Law 51-84
- Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Making - Assessing the Economic Feasibility and Regulatory Strategies’ (2011) 45(4) Journal of World Trade 837-876
- ‘WTO Negotiations on Subsidy and Countervailing Measures – Potential Implications on Trade Flows in Fishery Sector’ (2011) 6(1) Asian Journal of WTO Law and Policy (AJWH) 201-234
- ‘A Contribution to the Study of Modern Economic Treaties - The Three-pronged Strategy of India’s Preferential Trade Policy’ (2010) 26(1) Connecticut Journal of International Law 415-456
- ‘Why Will China Establish a Government-Sponsored Response Mechanism in Countervailing Games?’ (2009) 10(2) Journal of World Investment and Trade 227-240
- ‘Implementing World Trade Organization Rules through Negotiation and Sanction’ (2007) 28(1) University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 153-186
- ‘Present Stakes around Patent Political Economy’ (2007) 2(1) Asian Journal of WTO Law and Policy (AJWH) 65-98
- ‘EC and WTO: Adapting the European Community Legal Structure to the International Trade’ (2006) 17(6) European Business Law Review 1615-1635
Book Reviews
- ‘The EU, the WTO and China – book review’ (2013) 2(3) Asian Journal of International Law (forthcoming)
- ‘China, India and the International Economic Order’ (2011) 12(1) Melbourne Journal of International Law 237-244
- ‘Lessons of China's gradualism in corporate governance and financial reform’ (2010) 40(1) Hong Kong Law Journal 239-243
Working Papers
- ‘EU- India Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement: Opportunities and Challenges’ Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) Working Paper No. 16, New Delhi, November 2012 (35 p.)
Full text: IIFT website (Free)
- ‘Maintaining the WTO's Supremacy in the International Trade Order - A Proposal to Refine and Revise the Role of the Trade Policy Review Mechanism’, CUHK Faculty of Law, CeFRED Working Paper No. 13, April 2012 (with Matsuo Matsushita) (26 p.)
Full text: CeFRED website (Free)
- ‘Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations on Investment - Issues and Challenges’, Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), 3rd Biennial Global Conference Online Proceedings, Working Paper No. 41, February 2012 (14 p.)
Full text: SIEL WP website (Free)
- ‘Analyzing the WTO Disputes on Subsidy and Countervailing Measures - Implications for the Current Negotiations’, Groupe d’Economie Mondiale (GEM), Sciences Po Paris, GEM Policy Brief, January 2011 (49 p.)
Full text: GEM website (Free)
Research websites
- BePress (published and unpublished writings)
- Google Scholar Citations
- Research Gate Network
- Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Conference and seminar’s Presentations in 2013
- ‘Lessons from the practice and WTO litigation on Safeguards’ presented at the Asian SIL Fourth Biennial Conference of the Asian Society of International Law, New Delhi (India) 13 November 2013
- ‘Sovereign debt restructuring in the context of international investment law – litigation and innovation in rule-making’ presented at the Asian International Economic Law Network (AIELN) Annual Conference, Seoul (Korea) 18-19 July 2013
- ‘China and International Investment law’, presented at the Annual Conference of the Asian Law Institute (Asli), Bangalore (India), 23-24 May 2013
- ‘The Regionalization of Investment Treaty Arrangements in Asia-Pacific – The TPP as a NAFTA-Related ‘Codification’ presented at the Asia WTO Research Network Annual Conference & ACWH at 10 on ‘Asia’s Plurilateral Trade Agreements: TPP, ASEAN and Beyond’, Taipei, 15 & 16 June 2013
- ‘The law of exception in investment treaties’ presented at the CUHK-NCTU Join Symposium, Taipei, 14 June 2013
- ‘New Directions & Emerging Challenges in International Investment Law and Policy’ Research Seminar organised by the Vienna University of Business & Economics, Vienna (Austria), 22 May 2013
- ‘The impact of International Investment Agreements on the sovereign debt restructuring’, presented at the International Law Association (ILA) 2013 Research Forum, Taipei (Taiwan), 15-16 May 2013
- ‘International Law of Foreign Investment at a crossroads – Emerging issues’, presented at the seminar organized by the European Commission, Bandar Seri Begawan (Brunei Darussalam), 1-3 May 2013
- ‘Negotiating a comprehensive EU-India free trade agreement’, presented at the conference on ‘The EU and Emerging Powers’ organized by the College of Europe, Leuven University, European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), 29-30 April 2013
- ‘Transforming Investment in ASEAN through ACIA’ presented at the Forum on the ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement (ACIA) organized by the Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA), World Trade Institute and ASEAN-Australia Development Cooperation Program Phase II, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) 21 March 2013
- ‘Investment or Health? Can exception clauses play a role in balancing foreign investment protection and domestic tobacco control?’ presented at the Annual Law Symposium organized by Boston University School of Law (USA), 24-25 January 2013
- ‘Measuring the impact of investment treaties on FDI flows’ (Paper 1) and ‘Mastering a two-edged sword - Practice and litigation on safeguards (Paper 2) presented at the 3rd Annual Conference organized by Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Kolkata (India), 10-11 January 2013
- ‘Analyzing the effects of investment treaties on capital flows – the BITsel Index’ presented at the research seminar organized by Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata (India), 7 January 2013
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