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Ryan Mart\u00ednez Mitchell<\/strong>‘s research focuses on public international law, comparative law, legal history, Chinese law, and Asian legal systems. His work has been published in leading academic journals, including the Harvard International Law Journal<\/em>, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law<\/em>, the Asian Journal of International Law<\/em>, International & Comparative Law Quarterly<\/em>, and the Georgetown Journal of International Law<\/em>, among others. His analysis of these topics has also appeared in Foreign<\/em> Affairs<\/em>, The New York Times<\/em>, The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, Financial Times<\/em>, The National Interest<\/em>, NPR<\/em>, Bloomberg<\/em>, Nikkei Asia<\/em>, Al Jazeera<\/em>, Foreign Policy<\/em>, and other major media outlets.<\/p>

In much of his work, Professor Mitchell explores understandings of state sovereignty in both international legal and domestic constitutional contexts. He has particularly focused on the historical and comparative study of ideas and practices of state authority and responsibility. His monograph Recentering the World: China and the Transformation of International Law<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2022), is a detailed account of Chinese discourses regarding and impacts upon international law based on extensive work with diplomatic and other archival sources in several languages. His current projects involve the comparative study of Global South experiences and agendas in international law, including those related to customary norms regarding the enforcement of international law, economic statecraft, and sustainable development.<\/p>

Alongside his training as a legal scholar, Mitchell conducted extensive coursework and research training on the history and society of modern China. He holds a B.A. in Social and Historical Inquiry from The New School’s Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was also a Cravath International Fellow and an Irving R. Kaufman Public Interest Fellow, and a Ph.D. in Law from Yale University, where he was also an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Fellow and obtained the Archaia <\/em>interdisciplinary qualification in the study of premodern societies. He is a member of the State Bar of California and has experience in litigation related to international human rights law within the United States federal court system. He is currently a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    • Chinese law \/ Asian legal systems<\/li>
    • Legal history<\/li>
    • Comparative Constitutional law<\/li>
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      Monographs<\/p>

      • Recentering the World: China and the Transformation of International Law <\/em>(Cambridge University Press, 2022)<\/li><\/ul>

        Academic Journal Articles<\/p>

        • \u201cSino-American Sanctions Convergence?,\u201d 7 Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review<\/em> 741 (2024)<\/li>
        • \u201cCarl Schmitt and Ossip Flechtheim at Nuremberg: A Crossroads for International Justice and Intellectual History,\u201d German Law Journal<\/em> (2024) (with Gregory Gordon)<\/li>
        • \u201cNeutral Rights and Collective Countermeasures for Erga Omnes Violations,\u201d 72 International & Comparative Law Quarterly<\/em> 361 (2023) (with Chin Leng Lim)<\/li>
        • \u201cThe Emerging Chinese Model of Statist Human Rights,\u201d 37 American University International Law Review<\/em> 617 (2023)<\/li>
        • \u201cThe Human Community of Fate: A Conceptual History of China\u2019s Ordoglobal Idea,\u201d 13 Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development<\/em> 175 (Summer 2022)<\/li>
        • \u201cMonroe\u2019s Shadow: League of Nations Covenant Article 21 and the Space of Asia in International Legal Order,\u201d 2 TWAIL Review<\/em> 200 (2021)<\/li>
        • \u201cChina\u2019s Participation in the Second Hague Conference and the Concept of Equal Sovereignty in International Law,\u201d 11 Asian Journal of International Law<\/em> 351 (2021)<\/li>
        • \u201cChinese Receptions of Carl Schmitt Since 1929,\u201d 8 Penn State Journal of Law and International Affairs<\/em> 181 (2020)<\/li>
        • \u201cA \u2018Guardian Controversy\u2019 Over Hong Kong\u2019s Basic Law?,\u201d 50 Hong Kong Law Journal<\/em> 463 (2020)<\/li>
        • \u201cInternational Law as Project or System?,\u201d 51 Georgetown International Law<\/em> Journal<\/em> 623 (2020)<\/li>
        • \u201cJean Bodin\u2019s Law of Nations,\u201d 21 Political Theology<\/em> 550 (2020)<\/li>
        • \u201cHegemony in a Multipolar World Order: Global Constitutionalism and the\u00a0Gro\u00dfraum<\/em>,\u201d 1 Jus Cogens<\/em> 129 (2019)<\/li>
        • \u201cChina and the Political Myth of \u2018Brainwashing,\u2019\u201d 4 Made in China Journal<\/em>, 48 (2019)<\/li>
        • \u201cInternational Law as a Coercive Order: Hans Kelsen and the Transformations of Sanction,\u201d 29 Indiana International & Comparative Law Review<\/em> 245 (2019)<\/li>
        • \u201cSovereignty and Normative Conflict: Reframing International Legal Realism as a Theory of Uncertainty,\u201d 58 Harvard International Law Journal<\/em> 421 (2018)<\/li>
        • \u201cManchukuo\u2019s Contested Sovereignty: Legal Activism, Rights Consciousness, and Civil Resistance in a \u2018Puppet State,\u2019\u201d 3 Asian Journal of Law and Society<\/em> 351 (2016)<\/li>
        • \u201cAn International Commission of Inquiry for the South China Sea?: Defining the Law of Sovereignty to Determine the Chance for Peace,\u201d 49 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law <\/em>749 (2016)<\/li>
        • \u201cRedefining Pragmatic Engagement: The \u2018New Model\u2019 of U.S.-China Relations and the Opportunity of Shared Consequences,\u201d 23 International Affairs Review<\/em> 105 (2015)<\/li>
        • \u201cSurveillance State 2.0: Beta-Tested in China, Coming Soon to\u2026?,\u201d Yale Journal of Law & Technology Online<\/em> (2013) (with Can Sun)<\/li><\/ul>

          Chapters in Edited Volumes<\/p>

          • “The Republic of China and the League of Nations” in Cai Congyan, Ignacio de la Rasilla, and Wang Jiangyu, eds., Histories of International Law in China: All Under Heaven?<\/em> (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2025)<\/li>
          • “How China Came to Embrace International Institutions” in Raluca Grosescu and Ned Richardson-Little, eds., Socialisms and International Law<\/em> (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2025)<\/li>
          • “Marxist Legal Thought” in Albert Hung-yee Chen and Yu Xingzhong, eds., Research Handbook on Chinese Legal Thought<\/em> (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2025)<\/li>
          • “Confucian Legal Thought” in John Linarelli, ed., Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Theory and Philosophy<\/em> (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2025)<\/li>
          • \u201cConstitutional Amendments in the People’s Republic of China\u201d in Bui Ngoc Son and Mara Malagodi, eds., Asian Constitutional Law, Volume II: Constitution Making<\/em> (Hart Publishing, forthcoming 2024)<\/li>
          • “Domestic Law as Critique of International Law: The Case of China’s SDG Authoritarianism” in Helmut Philipp Aust, Heike Krieger, and Felix Lange, eds., Research Handbook on International Law and Domestic Legal Systems<\/em> (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2024)<\/li>
          • \u201cConstitutional Projects in Modern Chinese History\u201d in Bui Ngoc Son, Stuart Hargreaves, and Ryan Mitchell, eds., Handbook on the Constitutional Law of Greater China<\/em> (Routledge, 2022)<\/li>
          • \u201cTheories of Sovereignty in the Origins and Implementation of Hong Kong\u2019s National Security Law\u201d in Hualing Fu and Michael Hor, eds., The National Security Law of Hong Kong: Restoration and Transformation<\/em> (Hong Kong University Press, 2022)<\/li>
          • \u201c\u2018State Form\u2019 in the Theory and Practice of Constitutional Change in Modern China\u201d in Rehan Abeyratne and Bui Ngoc Son, eds., The Law and Politics of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in Asia<\/em> (Routledge, 2021)<\/li>
          • \u201cMyanmar and the Hegemonic Discourse of International Criminal Law\u201d in Morten Bergsmo and Wolfgang Kaleck, eds., Colonial Wrongs, Double Standards, and Access to International Law<\/em> (Brussels: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, 2020)<\/li>
          • \u201cThe Chinese Interpretation of Sovereignty and Its Human Rights Implications\u201d in David Ismangil, Karen van der Schaaf, and Stijn Deklerck, eds., Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy \u2013 China<\/em> (Amnesty International Netherlands, 2020)<\/li><\/ul>

            Books Edited<\/p>

            • Handbook on the Constitutional Law of Greater China<\/em>\u00a0(co-editor with Bui Ngoc Son and Stuart Hargreaves) (Routledge, 2022)<\/li><\/ul>

              Book Reviews<\/p>

              • “A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination,” The China Journal<\/em> (2024)<\/li>
              • “Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism,” 54 Asian Affairs<\/em> 4 (2023)<\/li>
              • \u201cJust Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World,\u201d The Review of Politics<\/em> (2021)<\/li>
              • \u201cIs International Law International?<\/em>,\u201d 81 Modern Law Review 3 (2018)<\/li>
              • \u201cThe China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy,\u201d The Marx & Philosophy Review of Books (November 2015)<\/li>
              • \u201cBloody Harvest,\u201d 24 Harvard Human Rights Journal 246 (2011)<\/li><\/ul>

                Academic Blogs and Popular Publications<\/p>

                • \u201cRecentering the World: An Interview with Ryan Martinez Mitchell: Part II,\u201d Journal of the History of Ideas Blog<\/em>, April 9, 2023<\/li>
                • \u201cRecentering the World: An Interview with Ryan Martinez Mitchell: Part I,\u201d Journal of the History of Ideas Blog<\/em>, April 5, 2023<\/li>
                • \u201cWhat the US and its allies get wrong about Chinese neutrality,\u201d Responsible Statecraft<\/em>, April 4, 2023<\/li>
                • \u201cWhy pressuring neutral states to sanction Russia could backfire,\u201d Responsible Statecraft<\/em>, April 9, 2022<\/li>
                • \u201cHow Global Capitalism Became Humanity\u2019s \u2018Fate\u2019 in Xi Jinping\u2019s New Era,\u201d Global China Pulse<\/em>, Volume 1, Issue 1 (2022)<\/li>
                • \u201cGlobal Capitalism, International Law, and Chinese Sovereignty,\u201d Legal Form<\/em>, January 31, 2022<\/li>
                • \u201cSchmitt in Beijing,\u201d Critical Legal Thinking<\/em>, October 18, 2021<\/li>
                • \u201cTowards an \u2018Asian Faction\u2019 in International Law?: On Third Worldism and Contingent Eurocentrism Since the Second Hague Conference of 1907,\u201d Harvard International Law Journal Online<\/em> (2021)<\/li>
                • \u201cThe Korean War and the Ontology of Intervention: Chen Tiqiang\u2019s\u00a0Who Is Undermining International Law<\/em>?,\u201d Legal Form<\/em>, March 5, 2019<\/li>
                • \u201cWith China on the Moon,\u201d ChinaFile Conversation<\/em>, January 11, 2019<\/li>
                • \u201cA Hegelian Logic Underlying Contemporary Conservative Populisms?,\u201d Critical Legal Thinking<\/em>, January 2, 2019<\/li>
                • \u201cWas the UN Human Rights Council Wrong to Back China\u2019s \u2018Shared Future\u2019 Resolution?,\u201d EJIL: Talk!<\/em>, April 10, 2018<\/li>
                • \u201cChina\u2019s Crown Theorist,\u201d Foreign Affairs<\/em>, December 4, 2017<\/li>
                • \u201cWhy Taiwan and China Agree on South China Sea Sovereignty,\u201d The Diplomat<\/em>, March 29, 2016<\/li>
                • \u201cIs There a China Model?\u201d, ChinaFile Conversation<\/em>, October 19, 2015<\/li>
                • \u201cShould the U.S. Extradite Chinese Wanted by Beijing?\u201d, ChinaFile Conversation<\/em>, August 5, 2015<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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                  • “Reassessing the Role of Economic Sanctions in the Enforcement of International Law.\u201d September 2024-March 2027. Hong Kong Research Grants Council. Sole Investigator (PI)<\/li>
                  • Invited visit to The University of Sydney, Australia, October 2024, Chinese University of Hong Kong Internationalisation Faculty Mobility Scheme<\/li>
                  • Principal Investigator, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law Direct Grant 2023, \u201cChina in the Realist Imagination,\u201d May 2023 – April 2024<\/li>
                  • Principal Investigator, General Research Fund 2019\/20, \u201cThe Development and Influence of Chinese Theories of Sovereignty,\u201d January 2020 – June 2023<\/li>
                  • Principal Investigator, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law Direct Grant 2019, \u201cPost-Imperial Dialogues: Evaluating Connections Between Early 20th Century German Public Law Theory and Chinese Legal Discourse,\u201d June 2019 – June 2020<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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                    • Research Excellence Award 2022-2023, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2023<\/li>
                    • Award for \u201cBest Research in Progress on East Asian Law and Society,\u201d American Association of Law Schools, Section on East Asian Law and Society, January 2016<\/li>
                    • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Fellowship 2014-2017<\/li>
                    • Harvard Law School Kaufman Public Interest Fellowship 2012-13<\/li>
                    • Cravath International Fellowship 2011<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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                      • “The Domestic Legal Implications of Applying Humanitarian Principles to Economic Sanctions.” (May 2024). Presentation at annual works-in-progress meeting of the Interest Group on International Law in Domestic Courts of the American Society of International Law, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL<\/li>
                      • “Sanctions and Interdependence: Human Rights Implications.” (April 2024). Panel for Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington, DC<\/li>
                      • “Recentering the World: China and the Transformation of International Law.” (November 2023). Invited presentation at Karl-Franzens-Universit\u00e4t Graz, Graz, Austria<\/li>
                      • “The Republic of China and the League of Nations.” (October 2023). Presented at the workshop on Histories of International Law in China: All Under Heaven?, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong<\/li>
                      • “Contextualizing China’s Role in the Global Legal Order.” (October 2023). Presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History, Philadelphia, PA<\/li>
                      • “China Beyond its Borders and Global Governance.” (October 2023). Presented at International Law Weekend 2023, American Branch of the International Law Association, Fordham Law School, New York, NY<\/li>
                      • “Chinese Views on the Formation of the UN Charter.” (September 2023). Presented at 17th annual conference of the European China Law Studies Association, Helsinki, Finland<\/li>
                      • “International Law as a ‘Discourse Among Equals’: Changing Chinese Perceptions of the Fairness of Global Order and the Utility of Economic Coercion to Seek Redress.” (August 2023). Presented at the annual conference of the European Society for International Law, Interest Group on the History of International Law, Pre-Conference Workshop on Historical Perspectives on Fairness in International Law, Aix-en-Provence, Provence (hybrid event)<\/li>
                      • “Narrative Logics and the Problem of Authorship in International Legal History.” (June 2023). Presented at workshop on Historicization of International Law and its Limits. Friedrich-Schiller-Universit\u00e4t Jena and Sciences Po \u00c9cole de Droit, Jena and Dornburg, Germany<\/li>
                      • “Insights from Diplomatic Archival Research on China’s Role in International Legal History.” (May 2023). Invited presentation at Peking University School of Transnational Law, Shenzhen, China<\/li>
                      • “Constitutional Amendments in the People’s Republic of China.” (April 2023). Presented at Faculty of Law, Oxford University (hybrid event)<\/li>
                      • “Recentering the World: China and the Transformation of International Law.” (February 2023). Invited presentation at Hong Kong University (hybrid event)<\/li>
                      • “Recentering the World: China and the Transformation of International Law.” (December 2022). Invited presentation at Faculty of Law, Oxford University<\/li>
                      • \u201cThe Making of China\u2019s 1982 Constitution.\u201d (April 2022). Presented at Asian Comparative Constitutional Law Workshop. Oxford University and Chinese University of Hong Kong<\/li>
                      • \u201cDomestic Law as Critique of International Law.\u201d (March 2022). Presented at the workshop for the \u201cResearch Handbook on International Law and Domestic Legal Systems.\u201d Part of KFG project \u201cInternational Rule of Law: Rise or Decline?\u201d; Humboldt University and Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin<\/li>
                      • \u201cWhat is World History?\u201d (January 2022). Invited presentation at World History Roundtable, CUHK History Department. Chinese University of Hong Kong<\/li>
                      • \u201cChina and the Law of War as a Post-Cold War Project.\u201d (July 2021). Presented at the Workshop on State Socialism and International Law, National School of Political and Administrative Studies, Bucharest, Romania, Erfurt University, and Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development, and Innovation Funding, European Union<\/li>
                      • \u201cConstitutional Projects in Modern Chinese History.\u201d (July 2021). Presented at the Conference on Asian Legal History, Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Hue University, Vietnam<\/li>
                      • \u201cTheories of Sovereignty in the Origins and Implementation of Hong Kong\u2019s National Security Law.\u201d (June 2021). Presented at Conference on Hong Kong Under China\u2019s National Security Law. University of Hong Kong<\/li>
                      • \u201cA Chinese Alternative to Sovereignty?: Revisiting the Qing Concept of \u2018Stateliness.\u2019\u201d (March 2021). Invited lecture presented at the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence, University of Sydney<\/li>
                      • \u201cThe Return of Reprisals?: The Fall and (Potential) Rise of Peacetime Coercion.\u201d (October 2020). Presented at the ASIL Research Forum: Structure of International Law, 2020 ASIL Midyear Meeting<\/li>
                      • \u201cCarl Schmitt and the Development of Conservative State Theory in China.\u201d (October 2020). Presented at Greater China Legal History Seminar, Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law<\/li>
                      • \u201cInternational Law as Project or System?\u201d Presented at the Law and Society Association Annual Conference 2020<\/li>
                      • \u201cInternational Law as Project or System?\u201d (April 2020). Presented at the 2020 Michigan Law Junior Scholars Conference<\/li>
                      • \u201cReceptions of Carl Schmitt in China Since 1929.\u201d (December 2019). Presented at the 8th<\/sup>\u00a0Asian Constitutional Law Forum. Vietnam National University, Hanoi<\/li>
                      • \u201cMyanmar and the Hegemonic Discourse of International Criminal Law.\u201d (November 2019). Presented at Conference on \u201cColonial Wrongs, Double Standards, and Access to International Law.\u201d Centre for International Law Research and Policy (CILRAP). Yangon, Myanmar<\/li>
                      • \u201c\u2018Absent Presence\u2019 and Informal Hegemony: The League of Nations as a Project of Spatial Administration.\u201d (July 2019). Paper presented at the conference on the League of Nations Decentred, University of Melbourne<\/li>
                      • \u201cChina\u2019s \u2018Community of Common Destiny\u2019: A New World Order?\u201d (May 2019). Paper Presented at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Cologne<\/li>
                      • \u201cThe Origins and Influence of China\u2019s Developmentalist Conception of Human Rights.\u201d (January 2019). Paper presented at the conference on Redistributive Human Rights?, University of New South Wales<\/li>
                      • \u201cDe-Universalized Hegemony in Carl Schmitt\u2019s\u00a0Gro\u00dfraumlehre<\/em>: The Power to Characterize Spaces and Determine Norms,\u201d (June, 2018). Paper presented at the conference on Hegemony in the International Order, University of Rome, Tor Vergata and the European Society of International Law (ESIL)<\/li>
                      • \u201cConcrete Order Thinking for the Socialist Rechtsstaat: The Role of German Juristic Thought in China\u2019s \u2018New Era\u2019 Constitutionalism,\u201d (May, 2018).\u00a0\u00a0Paper presented at the conference on Germany and the World, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology<\/li>
                      • \u201cInternational Criminal Law Categories in China,\u201d (November, 2016). Paper presented at the conference on State Socialism, Legal Experts and the Genesis of International Criminal and Humanitarian Law after 1945, Humboldt University of Berlin<\/li>
                      • \u201cSovereignty and Uncertainty in Han Fei, Hobbes, and Schmitt,\u201d (May, 2016). Paper presented at the East-West Philosopher\u2019s Conference, University of Hawaii<\/li>
                      • \u201cLegal Activism and Rights Consciousness in a \u2018Puppet State\u2019: Law in Manchukuo\u2019s Civil Resistance, 1931-1945,\u201d (January, 2016). Paper presented at the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) \u201cResearch in Progress on East Asian Law & Society\u201d 2016 Session, New York<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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