Monograph

Chen YU, Dispute Settlement and the Reform of International Investment Law: Legalization Through Adjudication (August 2023, Edward Elgar).

Reviewed in:

• ICSID Review (by Charalampos Giannakopoulos)
• Journal of World Investment & Trade (by Martin Jarrett)
• Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (forthcoming)

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• Yawen Zheng & Chen Yu, “Cancelling oil and gas licensing rounds is not riskless: possible treaty violations and their mitigation”, Journal of International Dispute Settlement (2025) 16:4, https://doi.org/10.1093/jnlids/idaf054
• Chen YU, “The uneasy delegation: conditional judicialization of international investment dispute settlement”, (2025) Journal of International Dispute Settlement 16:2, 1-12. [open access]
• Chen YU, “Disentangling Legal Stability from Legitimate Expectations: Towards Greater Deference to Regulatory Changes in Renewable Energy Transition Policies in Investment Arbitration” (2025) World Trade Review 24:1, 101-119. [open access]
• Chen YU, “International adjudication as interactional law-making: the incorporation of fair and equitable treatment elements in investment treaties”, Journal of International Economic Law (2024) 27:2, 259-277. [open access]
• Chen YU, ‘The “Externality” of Joint Interpretations on Investment Law Jurisprudence: Learning from the Past’ (2023) The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, 22:1, 194-218.
• Chen YU, ‘Towards a Three-tiered Ombuds System for Investment Dispute Prevention: Principles and Challenges’ (2022) Asia Pacific Law Review, 30:2, 401-423.
• Chen YU, “Advancing Predictability via a Judicialized Investment Court? A Fresh Look Through the Lens of Constructivism” (2022) Journal of International Dispute Settlement, 13:3, 370-392. [open access]
• Chen YU, “Amicus Curiae Participation in ISDS: A Caution Against Political Intervention in Treaty Interpretation” (2020) ICSID Review – Foreign Investment Law Journal, 35:1-2, 223-235.
• Chen YU, “Currency Manipulation and WTO Laws: Should the Anti-Dumping Mechanism Be Entirely Dumped?” (2019) the Journal of World Investment & Trade 20:6, 891-915.

Articles in US law journals

• Chen YU & Yawen ZHENG, “Pluralizing International Investment Law for Energy Transition” (forthcoming) Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (2026)
• Chen YU, “Taking Stock of Investor-State Disputes Involving Energy Transition” (forthcoming) Minnesota Journal of International Law (2026) Volume 35 Issue 2 (SSRN preprint)

Book chapters

• “Legal Reasoning Beyond Binaries: AI and the Fuzziness of Principles”, co-author with Fabien Gélinas, (forthcoming) in Artificial Intelligence Governance: Exploring the Public Policy and Legal Landscape (Michael Tsimplis & Chandra Yanto eds, Edward Elgar).
• “Annulment of Arbitration Awards in Hong Kong”, co-author with Yueming Yan, (forthcoming) in Annulment of Arbitral Awards (Franco Ferrari, Julio César Rivera (h), Friedrich Rosenfeld edits, Kluwer).

Book reviews

• “Abdulkadir Yilmazcan, Improving Procedural Justice in Anti-Dumping Investigations: Lessons from the US and EU Practices Against China. Cambridge University Press, 2024.” (forthcoming) Journal of World Investment & Trade
• “Intellectual Property Objectives in International Investment Agreements by UPRETI Pratyush Nath, Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, UK, 2022” Asian Journal of International Law.

Blog posts

“Global Perspectives on Teaching International Investment Arbitration”, Kluwer Arbitration Blog.

Prize:

• Outstanding Reviewer Award by Journal of World Investment & Trade (2026)
• CityU School of Law Outstanding Research Award (2023)
• 2022 David D. Caron Prize, American Society of International Law

Professional Membership

• Member of Advisory Board, American Society of International Law, International Law & Social Science Interest Group
• Member, Academic Forum on ISDS