Julien Chaisse

Julien Chaisse (Chinese: 夏竹立; born 1976 in Avignon, France) is a professor of law at the City University of Hong Kong,[1] specializing in international law, with a particular focus on globalization and on Asian economies.

Julien Chaisse
Born1976 (age 44–45)
Avignon, France
Academic background
Alma materAix-Marseille University (LLB)
University of Tübingen (Master's degree)
University of Rennes 1 (LLM)
Paul Cézanne University Aix-Marseille III (PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineLaw
Sub-disciplineInternational law
International arbitration
InstitutionsCity University of Hong Kong

Education

Chaisse received his LLB degree from Faculty of Law and Political Science, Aix-Marseille University in 1998. He earned his master's degree from the University of Tübingen in 1999 and an LLM degree from the University of Rennes 1 in 2000. In 2004, Chaisse started his doctoral dissertation at the Institut d'etudes politiques d'Aix-en-Provence of Paul Cézanne University Aix-Marseille III, where he became affiliated as a teacher and a researcher.[2]

Administrative and teaching career

From 2007 to 2010, Chaisse was at the World Trade Institute in Switzerland to coordinate a project on multilateral rules on investment, as Alternate Leader of the NCCR-Trade Regulation's Individual Project 11 (2007–2009).[3] During this time, he also served as a Visiting Professor at the International Law Institute of Wuhan University School of Law in Wuhan, China, and co-authored a two-volume book titled Essays on the Future of the World Trade Organization, published in 2008.[3] In 2009, Chaisse joined the newly established Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK),[3] where he received the CUHK Research Excellence Award in 2012, and in 2013 become Director of the Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development.[4][5] He received the CUHK Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award in 2015.[6] Chaisse's experiences living in Asia and Switzerland, with their disparate conditions with respect to the availability of fresh water, led him to advocate for the development of "a global legal framework to oversee the business of supplying water, particularly across borders".[4] Pursuant to this interest, Chaisse has advised various national governments in crafting water-investment contracts.[4]

Chaisse edited and contributed to the festschrift for Mitsuo Matsushita in 2016, including a chapter in the piece examining international economic laws potentially regulating State-Controlled Entities and Sovereign Wealth Funds, and highlighting "a considerable risk of incoherence" for their operations.[7] Chaisse and Sufian Jusoh's 2016 book, The ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement: The Regionalization of Laws and Policy on Foreign Investment, was positively reviewed in Foreign Trade Review,[8] as was Chaisse, Jusoh, and Tomoko Ishikawa's 2017 book, Asia's Changing International Investment Regime: Sustainability, Regionalization, and Arbitration.[9] In recognition of his important academic contribution to international law, Chaisse received the CUHK's Vice-Chancellor's Young Researcher Award 2017.[10]

In 2019, Chaisse joined the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. In the 2020 Times Higher Education (THE) Law Rankings, City University of Hong Kong School of Law was ranked joint 25th in the world.[11][12] Chaisse's 2019 book China's International Investment Strategy (Oxford University Press) received important acclaims as "an invaluable contribution to our understanding of China's international investment law strategy across domestic, bilateral regional and global levels" and "a must-have for all who wish or need to understand China-related investment disputes. This will be for many years to come a major work for China scholars and practitioners alike".[13] As of 2020, he serves as co-editor-in-chief of the Asia Pacific Law Review.[14]

Other activities

In addition to his teaching and writing, Chaisse sits on the Trade and Investment Council of the World Economic Forum,[6] and various other international legal advisory bodies. Chaisse has noted the increasing use of Special Economic Zones to draw foreign investment to regions, and the potential for conflicts to arise from the divergence between the local management of these zones and their host countries, which are the recognized actors in international law.[15][16] Chaisse is also member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in which he serves on the Working Group on gTLDs' rights protection mechanisms review and the Accountability and Transparency Review program. He contributed to the Initial Report of the Review of All Rights Protection Mechanisms in All gTLDs Policy Development Process released on 18 March 2020.[17][18][19] In 2020, Chaisse addressed economic challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, citing the lack of cooperation between countries as a core problem, contending that "as long as there is no cooperation among them to decide when to lift these controls, the effect on the economy will be felt for quite some time".[1]

Publications
  • International Economic Law and Governance-- Essays in the Honour of Mitsuo Matsushita (London: Oxford University Press, 2016)[7]
  • The ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement: The Regionalization of Laws and Policy on Foreign Investment, was positively reviewed in Foreign Trade Review (2016)[8]
  • International Investment Treaties and Arbitration Across Asia (Boston: Brill, Nijhoff International Investment Law Series, 2017)[20]
  • Asia's Changing International Investment Regime: Sustainability, Regionalization, and Arbitration (2017)[9]
  • The Regulation of Global Water Services Market (London: Cambridge University Press, 2017)
  • China's International Investment Strategy-- Bilateral, Regional, and Global Law and Policy (London: Oxford University Press, 2019)
  • Sixty Years of European Integration and Global Power Shifts-- Perceptions, Interactions and Lessons (London: Hart, Modern Studies in European Law, 2020)[21]

References
  1. Guest, Peter (April 1, 2020). "How the coronavirus is reshaping Asia's borders, business and trade". Nikkei Asian Review.
  2. Dipankar Sengupta, Debashis Chakraborty, Pritam Banerjee, Beyond the Transition Phase of WTO: An Indian Perspective on Emerging Issues (Centre de Sciences Humaines, 2006), p. 9.
  3. Philippe Gugler and Julien Chaisse, eds., Competitiveness of the ASEAN Countries: Corporate and Regulatory Drivers (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2010), p. vii.
  4. McMillan, Alex Frew (15 September 2015). "The Faulty Legal Patchwork of "Blue Gold": CUHK legal scholar examines water trade regulations". Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  5. Zhang, Maggie (29 November 2016). "China's foreign investment 'shopping spree' over as Beijing moves to slash capital outflow". South China Morning Post.
  6. "Julien Chaisse: Biography". Centre de Sciences Humaines. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  7. Hamanaka, Shintaro (2 October 2017). "A Book Review of 'International Economic Law and Governance: Essays in Honour of Mitsuo Matsushita' – Edited by Julien Chaisse and Tsai-Yu Lin". 12 (2). Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy: 463–469. SSRN 3045782. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. Debashis Chakraborty, "Book Review: Julien Chaisse and Sufian Jusoh, The ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement: The Regionalization of Laws and Policy on Foreign Investment", Foreign Trade Review, Vol. 53, Issue 2 (March 22, 2018), doi 10.1177/0015732518764812.
  9. Rahul Choudhury, Pravin Jadhav, "Book Review: Julien Chaisse, Tomoko Ishikawa and Sufian Jusoh (Eds.), Asia's Changing International Investment Regime: Sustainability, Regionalization, and Arbitration, Foreign Trade Review, Vol. 54, Issue 3 (August 9, 2019), doi 10.1177/0015732519851644.
  10. "The Chinese University of Hong Kong Holds 85th Congregation for the Conferment of Degrees". 15 November 2018.
  11. "World University Rankings 2020 by subject: law". Times Higher Education (THE). Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  12. "CityU Law School ranked 25th in 2020 Times Higher Education Law Rankings". City University of Hong Kong. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  13. Romesh Weeramantry, "Book Review: China's International Investment Strategy, edited by Julien Chaisse", Asian Dispute Review (October 2019).
  14. "Editorial and Advisory Board". Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  15. Dettoni, Jacopo (15 February 2018). "SEZs play catch-up on investment treaties". FDI Intelligence.
  16. Dettoni, Jacopo (12 December 2019). "Free zones could pose challenge to international law". FDI Intelligence.
  17. "Julien Chaisse SOI". ICANN. May 24, 2020.
  18. "WG Members + Mailing Lists". ICANN. 3 June 2020.
  19. "Phase 1 Initial Report on the Review of All Rights Protection Mechanisms in All gTLDs Policy Development Process" (PDF). ICANN. 18 March 2020. p. 143.
  20. Luke R. Nottage and Ana Ubilava, "Asia's Changing International Investment Regime: Sustainability, Regionalization and Arbitration – Review Essay", University of Western Australia Law Review, Volume 44(2), 2018 (June 6, 2018) Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 18/34.
  21. Pennisi, Giuseppe (11 January 2019). "Ombre cinesi. Cosa ha prodotto l'accordo tra Roma e Pechino" (in Italian). Formiche.net.
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