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Professor Chao Wang

Senior Associate Research Fellow and Coordinator of the China Common Law Programme

PhD (Law, UBC), LLM (UBC), MA (Asia Pacific Policy Studies, UBC), LL.B. (International Economic Law, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics)

Chao.Wang@sas.ac.uk

Research Interests

Trade and Human Rights, International Economic Law, Constitutional Law, Public International Law.

Additional Professional Information

  • Professor & Assistant Dean (Teaching and External Affairs), Faculty of Law, University of Macau
  • Executive Committee Member, Chinese Society of International Law
  • Arbitrator, Shanghai International Arbitration Center (SHIAC)
  • Arbitrator, Shenzhen Court of Arbitration (SCIA)
  • Sessional Lecturer, Allard School of Law, The University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada, 2008-2009
     

Other Information

Profile link:  https://fll.um.edu.mo/chao-wang/

Publications

Book Chapters

Chao Wang, “International Law in Macau”, in Sarah Biddulph & Kathryn Taylor eds, Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Asian Law, Edward Elgar, 2024 (Forthcoming).

Chao Wang, “Chinese Historical Portraits in International Law: Qiu Shaoheng (aka. Henry Chiu) (1913-2009)”, Chapter 32, in Ignacio de la Rasilla & Congyan Cai eds, All under Heaven: Histories of International Law in China, Oxford University Press, 2023 (Forthcoming).

Chao Wang & Xin Xiang, “International Considerations in the Chinese Constitution: From Selective Adaptation to Normative Consensus”, Chapter 4, in Ignacio de la Rasilla & Congyan Cai eds., The Cambridge Handbook of China and International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2023. 

Chao Wang, “Coordinated Compliance and Private Approach of International Engagement in China’s Human Rights”, ch.6, in Titus Chen eds., International Engagement in China’s Human Rights, (Routledge China Policy Series), Routledge, 2015.

Chao Wang, “Selective Adaptation as a Paradigm in Comparative Law: An illiberal Model of Rule of Law in Postwar Japan”, in Tong Io Cheng & Salvatore Mancuso eds., New Frontiers of Comparative Law, Lexis Nexis, 2013.

Zhe Li & Chao Wang, “The Canadian Criminal Procedure”, in Song Yinghui eds., The Foreign Criminal procedure Law, (Beijing: Peking University Press, 2010) 

Chao Wang, “Dispute Resolution in China’s Government Procurement: Administrative Review or Judicial Review?” in Potter, Pitman B. and Xiaorong Gu, eds, The Hypothesis of Selective Adaptation and the Practice of Rule by Law in China (Shanghai: SASS Press, 2009).

Journal Articles

In English (peer reviewed journals indexed in Web of Science Core Collection & Scopus).

Chao Wang, Xin Xiang, Book Review of Yuji Iwasawa, Domestic Application of International Law: Focusing on Direct Applicability (review essay), Chinese Journal of International Law, Volume 22, Issue 3, 2023; (Oxford University Press). https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmad032

Chao Wang, Xin Xiang, “The Application of International Treaties in Macao: An Historical and Comparative Study”, Journal of International and Comparative Law; Vol. 10:1, (June 2023) (Sweet & Maxwell). https://www.jicl.org.uk/journal/june-2023/the-application-of-international-treaties-in-macao-an-historical-and-comparative-study

Chao Wang, Zhuoxin Lin, “An Overview of Macao’s New Arbitration Law: Provisional Measures and Recognition of Arbitral Awards”, China-EU Law Journal, Volume 9, Issue 1, April 2023, (Springer Nature). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12689-023-00098-0

Chao Wang, “Hong Kong in the Age of PRC’s Alienation from the International System: In Search of Normative Consensus”, Global Constitutionalism, Volume 12, Issue 2, published online in April 2023, (Cambridge University Press). https://doi.org/10.1017/S2045381723000035

Chao Wang, Zhuoxin Lin, “Coordinating International Trade and Human Rights as an Innovative Approach to Cross-Cultural Dispute Resolution”, China and WTO Review, Volume 9, Issue 1, March 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.14330/cwr.2023.9.1.08

Chao Wang, Taixia Shen, “China’s New Legislation on Personal Information Protection in Light of the Covid-19 Pandemic”, Journal of International and Comparative Law; Vol. 9:2, (Fall 2022) (Sweet & Maxwell). https://www.jicl.org.uk/journal/december-2022/china-s-new-legislation-on-personal-information-protection-in-light-of-the-covid-19-pandemic 

Chao Wang, “A ‘Community of Shared Future for Mankind’ in the Era of Global Pandemic: Towards a Normative Consensus or Authoritarian International Law?”, Journal of East Asia and International Law, Volume 15, Issue 2, Fall 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14330/jeail.2022.15.2.05 

Chao Wang, “In Search of the Intrinsic Value of One Country Two Systems: From Selective Adaptation to Normative Consensus”, Asian Education and Development Studies, Volume 12, Issue 1. (Emerald Publishing). https://doi.org/10.1108/AEDS-08-2021-0185

Chao Wang, Taixia Shen, “Implications of EU’s Position on Trade Distortion to the EU-China Trade Relations: From Selective Adaptation to Coordinated Compliance”, Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy, Volume 17, Issue 2, p.331-370. September 2022. https://www.ntu.law.acwh.tw/publication_c.php?sid=10&pid=319&page=1

Chao Wang, “China’s Intellectual Property Regime in Light of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership”, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 17, Issue 9, September 2022, (Oxford University Press). https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpac082

Xueer Chen, Chao Wang (corresponding author), “Online Arbitration of E-commerce Disputes in the People’s Republic of China: Due Process Concerns”, China and WTO Review, Volume 8, Issue 2, September 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14330/cwr.2022.8.2.01

Chao Wang, Taixia Shen, “Adaptation of International Law in the Chinese Constitution and Legal System: New Developments”, Chinese Journal of International Law, Volume 21, Issue 2, June 2022, (Oxford University Press). https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmac018

Chao Wang, “International Law and the Evolution of the Chinese Constitution: From Peaceful Co-existence to Humanity's Interdependence”, Tsinghua China Law Review, Volume 14, Issue 1, 2022. https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/tsinghua14&div=8&id=&page=

Yan Jin, Chao Wang (corresponding author), “China Court Rules for the First Time That it has Jurisdiction over SEP Global Licensing Term Disputes”, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 17, Issue 2, February 2022, (Oxford University Press). https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpab180

Chao Wang, “Implementation of ICCPR in Macao since 1999: The Position of Aliens as an Illustration”, Chinese Journal of International Law, Volume 20, Issue 3, September 2021, Pages 561–579, (Oxford University Press). https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmab028

Xueer Chen, Chao Wang (corresponding author), “Information Disclosure in China’s Rising Securitization Market”, International Journal of Financial Studies, 2021, 9(4), 66. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijfs9040066

Taixia Shen, Chao Wang (corresponding author), “Big Data Technology Applications and the Right to Health in China during the COVID-19 Pandemic”, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 Jul; 18:14. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18147325

Chao Wang, “To Cope with a New Coronavirus Pandemic: How Life May Be Changed Forever”, Chinese Journal of International Law, 19:2 (June 2020) (Oxford University Press). https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmaa020

Chao Wang, “Invocation of National Security Exceptions under GATT Article XXI: Jurisdiction to Review and Standard of Review”, Chinese Journal of International Law, 18:3 (September 2019) (Oxford University Press). https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmz029

Chao Wang, “China’s Treaty Compliance with the WTO: Perspectives of Selective Adaptation and Institutional Capacity”, Journal of International and Comparative Law; Vol. 6:1, (Jun 2019): 139-152 (Sweet & Maxwell). https://www.jicl.org.uk/journal/june-2019/china-s-treaty-compliance-with-the-wto-perspectives-of-selective-adaptation-and-institutional-capacity 

Chao Wang, “Selective Adaptation of International Procurement Rules in the Local Context: Implications for Reforming China’s Bid Challenge Procedures”, The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 4:1, 2016 (Oxford University Press). https://doi.org/10.1093/cjcl/cxw004

Chao Wang, “China and the Agreement on Government Procurement: Costs, Benefits, and Challenges of Accession and Implementation”, Journal of International and Comparative Law, Volume 2:2, December 2015 (Sweet & Maxwell). https://www.jicl.org.uk/journal/december-2015/china-and-the-agreement-on-government-procurement-costs-benefits-and-challenges-of-accession-and-implementation 

Chao Wang, “Selective Adaptation in Treaty Compliance: The Implication of Japan’s Implementation of the WTO’s GPA” Asia Pacific Law Review Volume 22:1, July 2014 (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.1080/10192557.2014.11745918

In English (other peer reviewed journals):

Filippo Lorenzon & Chao Wang, “The Force Majeure Clause, Contracts of Commodities, and Maritime Law in the Era of Sino-US Trade War and Covid-19”, Marine Law & Policy, Volume 4, 2021. 

Chao Wang, “Prospects on China’s On-going GPA Accession: Is GPA the Solution to China’s Procurement Reform Problem?” Soochow Law Journal (Taiwan) July 2012.