Dr. Julien Chaisse is Professor at the City University of Hong Kong, School of Law. He is an award-winning scholar of international law with a focus on the regulation and development of economic globalization. He has published numerous well-regarded and widely cited books and articles, and his scholarship has been cited by international courts/tribunals, as well as U.S. Courts. Dr. Chaisse’s teaching and research include international trade/investment law, contract law, international arbitration, and Internet law. Dr. Chaisse served as a senior fellow at the World Trade Institute (Switzerland), lecturer at elite school Sciences Po Aix (France), and as a diplomat for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Embassy of France in India).
As a leading scholar in the field of international economic law, Dr. Chaisse sits on the editorial board of several high-impact international journals. Dr. Chaisse is frequently invited to lecture at many academic institutions and leading universities around the world, including Columbia University (U.S.), University of Aix-Marseille and Paris Institute of Political Studies (France), University of Oxford (U.K.), Melbourne University and Sydney University (Australia), Tokyo University (Japan), and Tsinghua University (China).
Through collaborative research projects and networks, Dr. Chaisse has forged connections to scholars from around the globe. Standing collaborations include the World University Network ‘Managing the Globalization of Water Services’, the Jean Monnet Network ‘The European Union at the Crossroads of Global Order’, the ‘Climate Change Moot Court Competition’, and various projects focusing on transnational economic regulation.
Dr. Chaisse is also an experienced arbitrator and a sought-after consultant/expert to international organizations, governments, law firms, and private investors. He has advised international organizations and governments on private and public international law issues (including WTO accession, international trade law, state and international organization immunities) and assisted with the drafting of legislation in Austria, Azerbaijan, Canada, Côte d'Ivoire, France, Pakistan, and Vietnam.
Dr. Chaisse is an active member of the
World Economic Forum (“Tax and Globalization Working Group” and “Global Future Council on International Trade and Investment”). Dr. Chaisse serves as Advisory Board member of the Asian Academy of International Law (
AAIL), Director of the Dot Trademark Policy Committee (
DTPC), co-founder of the Internet Intellectual Property Institute (
IIPI), and Member of the Hong Kong’s Government Board of Review (
Inland Revenue Ordinance). Dr. Chaisse is also an advisor & partner to the
United Nations ARTNET on FDI, and member of the
Academic Forum on Investor-state Dispute Settlement.
Awards
- Chinese University of Hong Kong, Vice-Chancellor's Young Researcher Award 2017
- Chinese University of Hong Kong, Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award 2015
- Chinese University of Hong Kong, Research Excellence Award 2012
- University of Aix-Marseille, Best Law PhD Thesis, European Union Award 2008
Selected Publications
Books
- At the Crossroads of World Order-- Contestation, Global Governance and Europe (London: Oxford University Press, Forthcoming 2021)
Full text: Oxford University Press
- Handbook of International Investment Law and Policy (1st edition) Volumes I, II, III, and IV (New York: Springer-Nature, Forthcoming 2021) 2,400 p.
Full text: Springer-Nature
- Sixty Years of European Integration and Global Power Shifts-- Perceptions, Interactions and Lessons (London: Hart, Modern Studies in European Law, 2020) 520 p.
Full text: Hart Publishing
- China's International Investment Strategy-- Bilateral, Regional, and Global Law and Policy (London: Oxford University Press, 2019) 576 p.
Full text: Oxford University Press
- The Future of Asian Trade Deals and Intellectual Property (London: Hart, 2019) 320 p.
Full text: Hart Publishing
- International Economic Law and the Challenges of the Free Zones-- Global Regulatory Issues and Trends (The Hague: Kluwer, Global Trade Law Series, Vol. 38, 2019) 396 p.
Full text: Kluwer Law International
- The Belt and Road Initiative-- Law, Economics, and Politics (Boston: Brill, 2018) 760 p.
Full text: Brill Academic Publishers
- The Regulation of Global Water Services Market (London: Cambridge University Press, 2017) 446 p.
Full text: Cambridge University Press
- International Investment Treaties and Arbitration Across Asia (Boston: Brill, Nijhoff International Investment Law Series, 2017) 694 p.
Full text: Brill Academic Publishers
- International Economic Law and Governance-- Essays in the Honour of Mitsuo Matsushita (London: Oxford University Press, 2016) 624 p.
Full text: Oxford University Press
- The ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement-- The Regionalization of Laws and Policy on Foreign Investment (London: Edward Elgar, International Investment Law Series, 2016) 265 p.
Full text: Edward Elgar
Journal Articles
- ‘The Pervasive Problem of Special Economic Zones for International Economic Law-- Tax, Investment, and Trade Issues’ (2020) 20(1) World Trade Review (Forthcoming)
Full Text: Cambridge Core
- ‘Towards a WTO Multilateral Framework on Investment Facilitation-- Key Design Features and Significance for Global Trade and Development’ (2020) 44(2) Yale Journal of International Law (Forthcoming)
Full Text: Yale Law School
- ‘Chinese Puzzle-- Anatomy of the (Invisible) Belt and Road Investment Treaty (2019) 23(1) Journal of International Economic Law 79-115
Full text: Oxford University Press Journals
- 'How Will Investments Be Protected in EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment? Investment Court System Put to the Test' (2019) 25(3) European Law Journal (Forthcoming)
Full text: Wiley Online Library
- 'China's "Belt and Road" Initiative-- Mapping the World's Normative and Strategic Implications' (2018) 52(1) Journal of World Trade 163-185
Full Text: Kluwer Law International
- ‘Soft Law in International Law-Making-- How Soft International Taxation Law is Reshaping International Economic Governance’ (2018) 13(2) Asian Journal of WTO Law and Health Policy 463-509
Full Text: HeinOnline
- 'The EU Investment Court-- Challenges on the Path Ahead' (2018) 219 Columbia FDI Perspectives [English and Chinese]
Full Text: Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment
- 'The "Noodle Bowl Effect" of Investment Treaties in Asia-- The Phenomenon, the Problems, the Practical Solutions' (2018) 33(4) ICSID Review 44-69
Full Text: Oxford University Press Journals
- ‘The Doctrine of Legitimate Expectations-- International Law, Common Law, and Lessons for Hong Kong' (2017) 48(1) Hong Kong Law Journal 79-104
Full Text: Sweet &Maxwell
- ‘Draft Agreement and Rules on the Establishment of the Asia-Pacific Regional Mediation Organization (ARMO)’ (2017) 13(1) Asian Journal of WTO Law and Health Policy 5-26
Full Text: HeinOnline
- 'Renewables Re-Energized? The Internationalization of Green Energy Investment Rules and Disputes' (2016) 9(4) Journal of World Energy Law & Business 269-281
Full text: Oxford University Press Journals
- 'Shareholder Protection Reloaded-- Redesigning the Matrix of Shareholder Claims for Reflective Loss' (2016) 52(1) Stanford Journal of International Law 51-94
Full text: Stanford Journal of International Law
- 'Navigating the Expanding Universe of International Treaties on Foreign Investment-- Creation and Use of a Critical Index' (2015) 18(1) Journal of International Economic Law 79-115
Full text: Oxford University Press Journals
- 'The Evolving and Multilayered Investment Regulatory Framework between the European Union and India' (2014) 20(3) European Law Journal 385-422
Full text: Wiley Online Library
- 'Deconstructing the Conformity Obligation-- A Theory of Compliance as a Process' (2014) 37(4) Fordham International Law Journal 57-98
Full text: Fordham International Law Journal
- '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 9-36
Full text: Oxford University Press Journals
- 'Exploring the Confines of International Investment and Domestic Health Protections-- General exceptions clause as a forced perspective' (2013) 39(2/3) American Journal of Law & Medicine 332-361
Full text: American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics
- 'Promises and Pitfalls of the European Union Policy on Foreign Investment' (2012) 15(1) Journal of International Economic Law 51-84
Full text: Oxford University Press Journals
- ‘Sovereign Wealth Funds as Corporations in the Making Assessing the Economic Feasibility and Regulatory Strategies' (2011) 45(4) Journal of World Trade 837-875
Full text: Kluwer Law
- 'Why Will China Establish a Government-Sponsored Response Mechanism in Countervailing Games?' (2009) 10(2) Journal of World Investment and Trade 227-240
Full text: Brill Online
- 'Implementing World Trade Organization Rules through Negotiation and Sanction' (2007) 28(1) University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 153-186
Full text: Penn Law
- 'Adapting the European Community Legal Structure to the International Trade' (2006) 17(6) European Business Law Review 1615-1635
Full text: Kluwer Law
Book Chapters
- ‘Plea of Illegality in International Arbitration’, in Hélène Ruiz Fabri (Ed) Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (London: Oxford University Press) 2021
Full text: Oxford university Press
- ’The China International Commercial Court-- Architecture, Pitfalls, and Promises’’, in Stavros Brekoulakis & Georgios Dimitropoulos (eds) Hybrid Dispute Resolution Fora and Global Governance (London: Oxford University Press) 2020
Full text: Oxford University Press
- 'The EU Factor in Asia Investment Rule-making-- Reset or Recalibration?', in Chester Brown and Mahdev Mohan (Eds) Regulation & Investment Disputes-- Asian Perspectives (London: Cambridge University Press) 2020
Full text: Cambridge University Press
- ‘China's International Investment Law and Policy Regime- Identifying the Three Tracks’, in Julien Chaisse (Ed) China's International Investment Strategy-- Bilateral, Regional, and Global Law and Policy (London: Oxford University Press, 2019) 1-22
Full text: Oxford University Press (Purchase)
- ‘The ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement -- Much More Than a BIT of Protection for Foreign Investors?’, in Bryan Mercurio & Pasha Hsieh (Eds) ASEAN Law in the New Regional Economic Order-- Global Trends and Shifting Paradigms (London: Cambridge University Press, 2019) 232-250
Full text: Cambridge University Press
- 'Global Water Services Market and the Law-- A Paradigm in the Making' in Julien Chaisse (ed) The Regulation of Global Water Services Market (London: Cambridge University Press, 2017) 12-41
Full text: Cambridge University Press
- 'Untangling the Triangle - Issues for State-Controlled Entities in Trade, Investment and Competition Law' in Julien Chaisse and Tsai-yu Lin (eds) International Economic law and Governance-- Essays in the Honour of Mitsuo Matsushita (London: Oxford University Press, 2016) 233-258
Full text: Oxford University Press
- ‘Developing and Strengthening International Economic Law—The Contribution of Mitsuo Matsushita’ in Julien Chaisse and Tsai-yu Lin (eds) International Economic law and Governance-- Essays in the Honour of Mitsuo Matsushita (London: Oxford University Press, 2016) 8-28
Full text: Oxford University Press
- 'The Impact of International Investment Agreements on the Greek Default' in Chin Leng Lim and Bryan Mercurio (eds) International Economic Law after the Global Crisis-- A Tale of Fragmented Disciplines (London: Cambridge University Press, 2015) 306-328
Full text: Cambridge University Press
- 'The Regulation of Investment in the TPP - Towards a defining international agreement for the Asia-Pacific region' in Jansen Calamita and Mavluda Sattorova (eds) The Regionalization of Investment Treaty Arrangements--Developments and Implications (London: British Institute of International and Comparative Law (Series 'Current Issues in Investment Treaty Law' Volume 5, 2014) 270-319
Full text: British Institute of International and Comparative Law
- 'The Regulation of Sovereign Wealth Funds in the European Union' in Karl P. Sauvant, Lisa Sachs, and Wouter P.F. Schmit Jongbloed (eds) Sovereign Investment-- Concerns and Policy Reactions (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012) 462-495
Full text: Oxford University Press
- 'Towards Innovations in Investment Rulemaking?' in Chin Lim, Deborah Elms, Patrick Low (eds) The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)-- A Quest for Twenty-first Century Trade Agreement (London: Cambridge University Press, 2011) 147-170
Full text: Cambridge University Press
- '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 2010) 417-451
Full text: Cambridge University Press
Professional Publications
- ‘Strategic Brief on Misconceptions around Trade Balances’, World Economic Forum, Global Future Council on International Trade and Investment, April 20, 2019 [available online]
- ‘Strategic Brief for the Annual Meeting of Stewards of International Trade and Investment’, World Economic Forum, Global Future Council on International Trade and Investment, January 10, 2018 [available online]
- ‘Strategic Brief for the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany’, World Economic Forum, Global Future Council on International Trade and Investment, December 1, 2017 [available online]
- ‘Strategic Brief for Trade Ministers on Creating an Inclusive Trade Agenda’, World Economic Forum, Global Future Council on International Trade and Investment, June 10, 2017 [available online]
- ‘Strategic Brief for Trade Ministers on the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism’, World Economic Forum, Global Future Council on International Trade and Investment, April 23, 2017 [available online]
- ‘Strategic Brief on Trade Rules for the Global Tech Race, World Economic Forum, Global Future Council on International Trade and Investment, March 22, 2017 [available online]
- ‘Rising Protectionism Threatens Global Trade: WTO Law and Litigation in Asia’ (2017) 19(3) Asian Dispute Review, pp. 112–118 [available online]
- ‘TTIP: ¿hacia el caos de otro paradigma comercial?’ (2016) 17(10) International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) Puentes [available online]
- ‘International Investment Law and Taxation: From Coexistence to Cooperation’ (2016) World Economic Forum (WEF) - E15initiative [available online]
- ‘Privatización del agua en América Latina: implicancias para las políticas de desarrollo sostenible (2015) 16(7) International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) Puentes [available online]
- ‘The Investment Version of the Asian Noodle Bowl: The Proliferation of International Investment Agreements’ (2014) 128 Asian Development Bank (ADB) Working Paper [available online]
- ‘Tendencias globales en la construcción de normas y arbitraje de inversión’ (2014) 15(8) International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) Puentes [available online]
