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Shixue Hu is an Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Research Postgraduate Program at the Faculty of Law, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Hu’s research interests include international trade, investment, dispute resolution, and transnational business law. Her recent research examines international governance on state enterprises and sustainable development. Her works have appeared in prominent academic journals, such as ICSID Review, Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law, Yale Journal of International Law, Michigan Journal of International Law, Georgetown Journal of International Law, UC Davis Business Law Journal, Chinese Journal of Maritime Law (中國海商法研究), Law and Social Sciences (法律和社會科學).
Before joining the Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dr. Hu graduated from Yale Law School with an LL.M and a J.S. D. degree, where she was editor of Yale Journal of International Law and Yale Journal on Regulation. Prior to that, Dr. Hu graduated from Peking University (LL.B summa cum laude and Ph.D. in Law) where she had participated in legislative projects in the areas of international economic and finance law.
EDUCATION
- J.S.D., Yale Law School
- LL.M., Yale Law School
- Ph.D., Peking University
- LL.B., Peking University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- International Investment Law
- Trade Law
- Dispute Resolution
ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
- Member, Chinese Society of International Law
- Member, Asian Society of International Law
- Member, American Society of International Law
RESEARCH GRANTS
- Principal Investigator, Early Career Scheme, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, ‘SOE Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements’, HK$ 484,950.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles:
- China’s New Arbitration Law: Friendly to International Investment Arbitration?, ICSID Review-Foreign Investment Law Journal, Vol. 40, Issue 1, 42-72 (2025).
- China’s Instrumentalist Greenisation of the New-generation IIAs, Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law, Vol. 34, Issue 2, 550-565 (2025).
- Trade Rules of State Enterprises: A Lawmaking Perspective, Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 44 (2023).
- State Enterprises in International Investment Disputes: Focus on Actor or Action?, Georgetown Journal of International Law Vol. 51, Issue 2, 323-376 (2020).
- Clash of Identifications: ‘State Enterprises’ in International Law, UC Davis Business Law Journal, Vol.19, Issue 2, 171-206 (2019).
Book Chapters:
- “Ways of Control: Changes and Implications of China’s Current Reform of State-owned Enterprises”, in Regulation of State-Controlled Enterprises: An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Examination, edited by Julien Chaisse, Jędrzej Górski, and Dini Sejko. Springer-Verlag, 109-124 (2022).
Reviews:
- Mestizo International Law: A global Intellectual History 1842-1933, Vol. 41 Issue 1, Yale Journal of International Law (2016).
- Foreign Policy Breakthroughs: Cases in Successful Diplomacy, Vol. 41 Issue 2, Yale Journal of International Law (2016).