huaxia@pku.edu.cn
SIS A312
Lai Huaxia

Assistant Professor

Department of International Organizations and International Public Policy

Ph.D. in Law, University of Washington 

LL.M., University of Washington 

M.A. in Political Science, University of Washington 

M.A. in International Politics, Peking University 

B.A. in International Politics, University of International Relations

 

 

International Dispute Settlement, International Investment Law, Computational Appraoch to International Law, International Organizations

International Law and International Relations (Undergraduate) 

China and International Law (Undergraduate, English)

International Organizations (Graduate) 

China and International Law (Yenching Academy, English )

Doctoral Seminar (Doctoral) 

The Birth of An Advisory Center: A Data-Based Inquiry into the UNCITRAL Working Group III Negotiation on Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform, Journal of World Investment and Trade (R&R, 2025).

《以叙事侵蚀法理:美国推动台湾参与国际组织的策略解构》,《美国研究》,2025年第2期,一作。

“China’s International Legal Policy from 1949 to 2024: A Data-Based Interdisciplinary Inquiry”, Humboldt University and Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Workshop “Comparative International Legal Policy: National Political Approaches towards International Legal Order” (2025, 2024), book chapter to be published with Oxford University Press.

“The Diversity Prism: Gender, Geography, and the Politics of Expertise in Selecting UN Special Procedures”, European Society of International Law Annual Conference Agora Paper (2025, Berlin, Germany, 1st author).

“From Imperial Capital to Global Node: Beijing’s Engagement with International Law”, Singapore Management University Asian Cities and the International Legal Order Workshop (2025, Singapore), book chapter to be published with Cambridge University Press.

“China, ADR, and Legal Entrepreneurship,” in Matthew Erie, Jacque deLisle, and Jaclyn Neo (eds.)  Chinese Developmentalism in the Global Legal and Economic Order, Cambridge University Press (2025, Forthcoming).

 “Mediating with Chinese Characteristics: An Empirical Study of China’s Approach to ADR in International Investment Disputes under the Belt & Road Initiative,” in Joseph Marko, Ksenia Radchenkova, and Franz Winter (eds.) China and the World: Fresh Perspectives on Recent Debates, Brill (2025, Forthcoming).

《“舍弃”与“再发现”:国际关系研究的国际法传统》,《中国法律评论》2021年第3期。

《新冠疫情“国际责任论”的舆情、法理与政争》,《国际政治研究》2020年第3期。

“The Unfulfilled Promises of a Data-Driven Approach to International Economic Law”, in Rossana Deplano, Giulia Gentile and Luigi Lonardo (eds.), Pluralising International Legal Scholarship: The Promise and Perils of Non-Doctrinal Research Methods. UK: Elgar (2019).

Paving the Silk Road BIT by BIT: An Analysis of Investment Protection for Chinese Infrastructure Projects Under the Belt & Road Initiative, Transnational Dispute Management, Vol. 14, issue 3 (2017) (1st author). Reprinted in Julien Chaisse and Jędrzej Górski (eds.), The Belt and Road Initiative: Law, Economics and Politics. Brill-Nijhoff (2018).

U.S. Withdrawal from the Paris Agreement: Reasons, Impacts, and China’s Response, Advances in Climate Change Research, Volume 8 Issue 4 (2017) (with Zhang et al)

“The Climate-Trade Conundrum: A Critical Analysis of the WTO’s Jurisprudence on Subsidies to Renewable Energy”, in Mitsuo Matsushita and Thomas Schoenbaum (eds.), Emerging Issues in Sustainable Development: International Trade Law and Policy Relating to Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment. Japan: Springer (2016)

Translation, China’s Supreme People’s Court Annual Report on Intellectual Property Cases (2014), Washington International Law Journal, 25 (2016) (with Lou et al)

《冷战后中国地区合作政策的战略效应分析》,《国际观察》2009年第2 (二作)

 

国家社科基金一般项目“国际投资争端解决机制改革谈判的理论创新和政策支持工具研究”负责人(2023-2026,项目号23BGJ034)

北京大学区域与国别研究学术基金“美国经济外交的法律工具:投资协定的制度演化与霸权构建”负责人(2025-2026)

北京大学数字与人文基金“中美条约实践的数据驱动分析”负责人(2025-2026)

北京大学区域与国别研究学术基金“缔造制度霸权:美国与国际投资争端解决中心的建立”负责人(2022-2023)

北京大学数字与人文基金“计算方法与国际法研究:以联合国国际贸易法委员会国际投资制度改革谈判为例”负责人(2022-2023)

中国科协项目“新冠疫情中的科技组织”课题一“新冠疫情中的世界卫生组织”负责人(2020-2022)

北京大学桐山教育基金(2019)

北京大学人才启动基金(2019-2022)

University of Washington Hazelton Fellowship (2015-2017)

 

北京大学教学优秀奖(2024)

北京大学青年教师教学基本功大赛二等奖(2023)

北京大学优秀班主任标兵(2022)

北京大学优秀班主任(2021)

2025

1. “The Diversity Prism: Gender, Geography, and the Politics of Expertise in Selecting UN Special Procedures”, European Society of International Law Annual Conference Agora Paper (September 2025, Berlin, Germany)

2. “From Imperial Capital to Global Node: Beijing’s Engagement with International Law”, Singapore Management University Asian Cities and the International Legal Order Workshop (July 2025, Singapore)

3. “China’s International Legal Policy from 1949 to 2024: A Data-Based Interdisciplinary Inquiry”, Humboldt University and Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law “Comparative International Legal Policy: National Political Approaches towards International Legal Order  Authors’ Workshop” (July 2025, Berlin, Germany)

4. “国际投资法咨询中心的制度设计与谈判博弈”,复旦大学国际关系论坛 , 20256

5. “The Birth of An Advisory Center: A Data-Based Inquiry into the UNCITRAL Working Group III Negotiation on Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform”,  UNCITRAL Academic Forum on ISDS (April 2025, Florence, Italy)

6. Outer Space Institute Lunar Coordination Workshop (February, 2025, Singapore)

7. “China and International Dispute Settlement”, HKU LLM ADR Alumni Association (January 2025, Online)

 

2024

1. UNCITRAL Working Group III 8th InterSessional Meeting, Observer. (October 2024, Chengdu, China)

2. “From China’s International Legal Policy to the UNHRC: Computational Approaches to International Law”, American University School of International Service (October 2024, Washington DC, USA)

3. “Capacity Building in Motion: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into the Institutional Design of the Advisory Centre on International Investment Law at the UNCITRAL WGIII”,  American Society of international Law “International Law and Social Sciences” Work-In-Progress Conference (September 2024, Chicago, USA)

4. “China’s International Legal Policy from 1949 to 2024: A Data-Based Interdisciplinary Inquiry”, Humboldt University and Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law “Comparative International Legal Policy: National Political Approaches towards International Legal Order Workshop” (July 2024, Berlin, Germany)

5. UNCITRAL Working Group III ISDS Reform Negotiations 48th Session, Observer (April 2024, New York City, USA)

6. “WTO Law and Sustainable Development in the Era of Geopolitics”, Bocconi University Symposium “The WTO Ministerial Conference and the Future of International Trade” (March 2024, Online)

7. “Is China Seeking to Remake Investment Law Order? A Data-Based Inquiry into China’s Treaty Practice”, University of Washington School of Law Symposium “A Critical Examination of Decoupling” (March 2024, Online)

8.  Singapore Management University “Sustainable Development and International Law Workshop” (January 2024, Singapore)

 

2023

1. 《国际法与跨国风险控制的理论框架》,复旦大学法学院跨国法论坛(202312月)

2. “A Data-Based Study of the UNCITRAL Working Group III Negotiation on Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform”, UNCITRAL Academic Forum on ISDS (October 2023, Michigan, USA)

3. “A Computational Study of the UNCITRAL Working Group III Negotiations on Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform”, European Society of International Law Annual Conference (August 2023, Aix-en-Provence, France)

4. “Mediating with Chinese Characteristics: An Empirical Study of China’s Approach to ADR in ISDS”, Society of International Economic Law Biennial Global Conference (July 2023, Bogota, Colombia)

 

2022

1. 《国际法与国际关系理论》,吉林大学法学院(20229月,线上)

2.  《联大权力的边界》,中国人民大学法学院(20225月,线上)

3. 《国际法与国际关系》,北京大学深圳国际法学院(20224月,线上)

 

2021

1. “Global Health Governance: Past and Prologue”, Beijing Forum (November 2021, Beijing, China)

2. “International law and International Relations in China: A Tale of Lost Tradition”, Asian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting (September, online)

 

2020

1. 《国际经济争端解决机制变迁与多边主义的演进》,中国社会科学院世界经济与政治研究所(202012月,北京)

2. “The Future of Empirical Research in International Law”, Panelist with Prof. Joost Pauwelyn and Prof. Malcolm Langford,  Geneva Graduate Institute Computational & Empirical International Law Online Speaker series  (October 2020, online)

3. 《国际组织的造法功能与多边主义的发展》,北京外国语大学国际组织论坛(202010月,线上)

4. 《休戚与共全球抗疫》,人民大学法学院研讨会(20205月,线上)

 

2019

1.《条约解释,规制空间与国际经济法下的环境争议》,人民大学法学院全球法律与战略文坊 2019年,北京)

2. 《多学科视角下的国际组织研究》,北京大学国际组织论坛(2019年,北京)

 

Before 2019

1. “Measurement in Quantitative Research in International Law”, invited talk to the Workshop on the Neglected Methodologies of International Law at University of Leicester Law School (2018, Leicester, UK)

2. “Regulatory Space at Risk: Will Regional Free Trade Agreements Undermine the WTO Jurisprudence on Trade and Environment”, presented at International Studies Association Annual Convention (2017, Baltimore, USA)

3. “The Climate-Trade Conundrum: A Critical Analysis of the WTO’s Jurisprudence on Subsidies to Renewable Energy”, presented at International Studies Association Annual Convention (2016, Atlanta, USA)

4. “Environmental Protection Efforts by Local Governments: Evidences from China’s Provinces”, presented at International Studies Association Annual Convention (2013, San Francisco, USA)