Julien Chaisse

Julien Chaisse
Born1976 (age 47–48)
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

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, foreign investment and digital asset.

Education

Chaisse received his LLB degree from the 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]

Academic activities

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] In 2009, Chaisse joined the newly established Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK),[3] and, in 2013, become Director of the Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development.[4] Chaisse's experiences living in Asia and Switzerland, with their disparate conditions concerning the availability of freshwater, led him to advocate for the development of "a global legal framework to oversee the business of supplying water, particularly across borders".[4] Under 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 examining international economic laws potentially regulating State-Controlled Entities and Sovereign Wealth Funds, and highlighting "a considerable risk of incoherence" for their operations.[5] 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,[6] as was Chaisse, Jusoh, and Tomoko Ishikawa's 2017 book, Asia's Changing International Investment Regime: Sustainability, Regionalization, and Arbitration.[7]

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.[8][9] 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".[10] As of 2020, he serves as co-editor-in-chief of the Asia Pacific Law Review.[11] He also became the President of the Asia Pacific Foreign Direct Investment Network (APFN). As of 2024, he also serves as co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of World Investment & Trade.[12]

Awards and influence

Chaisse received the CUHK Research Excellence Award in 2012.[13] He received the CUHK Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award in 2015.[14] In recognition of his important academic contribution to international law, Chaisse received the CUHK's Vice-Chancellor's Young Researcher Award 2017.[15]

In 2020, Chaisse was awarded the Tenth annual Smit-Lowenfeld Prize which is awarded annually by the International Arbitration Club of New York to recognize an outstanding article published in the previous year on any aspect of international arbitration.[16] He joined the ranks of the Prize Recipients who are only top lawyers, including Nicolas Ulmer, Charles H. Brower II, Gary Born, Stephen Fietta & James Upcher, Catharine Titi, Louie Llamzon & Anthony Sinclair, Grant Hanessian & Alexandra Dosman, Simon Batifort & Benton Heath, and Soterios Loizou.[16][17] The Prize honours the late Hans Smit of Columbia Law School and Andreas F. Lowenfeld of New York University School of Law. Chaisse argues that "Given the rapidly changing cybersphere, digitisation of companies, and the forecast for investment in digital infrastructure globally, future claims are likely to emerge. To avoid uncertainty and eliminate risk, states can proactively address these issues by updating their BIT language to include cyber risk and digital assets."[18]

Other professional activities

In addition to his teaching and writing, Chaisse sits on the Trade and Investment Council of the World Economic Forum,[19] and various other international legal advisory bodies such as the World Free Zone Convention (WFZC)[20] and Academy of International Dispute Resolution & Professional Negotiation (AIDRN).[21] 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.[22][23] 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.[24][25][26] 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] He has been involved in major disputes settlements in particular in Eastern Europe and Asia pacific.

Publications

Chaisse has published academic articles in all the best law journals, including the Stanford Journal of International Law, American Journal of International, Journal of International Economic Law, World Trade Review, Journal of World Trade.[27][28][29][30]

Chaisse has published many books on various topics such as:

  • "The Black Pit:" Power and Pitfalls of Digital FDI and Cross-Border Data Flows," 22(1) World Trade Review 73-89 (2023)[31]
  • International Economic Law and Governance-- Essays in the Honour of Mitsuo Matsushita (London: Oxford University Press, 2016)[5]
  • The ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement: The Regionalization of Laws and Policy on Foreign Investment, was positively reviewed in Foreign Trade Review (2016)[6]
  • International Investment Treaties and Arbitration Across Asia (Boston: Brill, Nijhoff International Investment Law Series, 2017)[32]
  • Asia's Changing International Investment Regime: Sustainability, Regionalization, and Arbitration (2017)[7]
  • 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)[33] was positively reviewed in the Journal of International Economic Law and ICSID Review
  • Sixty Years of European Integration and Global Power Shifts-- Perceptions, Interactions and Lessons (London: Hart, Modern Studies in European Law, 2020) was positively reviewed in the Journal of Common Markets Studies[34][35]
  • Wine Law and Policy: From National Terroirs to a Global Market (Boston: Brill, 2021)[36]
  • Handbook of International Investment Law and Policy, 2021 edition[37]

Press

Chaisse is a frequent guest on National Press Foundation activities[38] and he has been featured/published in the world's leading business publications such as The Wall Street Journal,[39] Financial Times,[40] Al Jazeera International,[41][42] The Straits Times,[43] Nikkei Review,[44] Financier Worldwide, and International Financial Law Review.[45] He is also often interviewed by general newspapers such as Politico,[46] South Asia Morning Post,[47] Journal du Dimanche,[48] Journal de Montreal,[49] Vietnam Tuổi Trẻ daily newspaper,[50] Bangkok Post.[51]

References

  1. ^ a b 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. ^ a b Philippe Gugler and Julien Chaisse, eds., Competitiveness of the ASEAN Countries: Corporate and Regulatory Drivers (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2010), p. vii.
  4. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b 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". pp. 463–469. SSRN 3045782.
  6. ^ a b 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.
  7. ^ a b 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.
  8. ^ "World University Rankings 2020 by subject: law". Times Higher Education (THE). 29 October 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  9. ^ "CityU Law School ranked 25th in 2020 Times Higher Education Law Rankings". City University of Hong Kong. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  10. ^ Romesh Weeramantry, "Book Review: China's International Investment Strategy, edited by Julien Chaisse", Asian Dispute Review (October 2019).
  11. ^ "Editorial and Advisory Board". Archived from the original on July 3, 2020. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  12. ^ "The Journal of World Investment & Trade". Brill. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
  13. ^ "Awards & Prizes test". CUHK Faculty of Law. Retrieved 2021-08-26.
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  16. ^ a b "The Smit-Lowenfeld Prize | The International Arbitration Club of New York". www.arbitrationclub.org. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
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  19. ^ "Julien Chaisse". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2021-08-26.
  20. ^ "World Free Zone – Conference & Exhibition". Retrieved 2021-08-26.
  21. ^ "Academy of International Dispute Resolution & Professional Negotiation – AIDRN". Retrieved 2021-08-26.
  22. ^ Dettoni, Jacopo (15 February 2018). "SEZs play catch-up on investment treaties". FDI Intelligence.
  23. ^ Dettoni, Jacopo (12 December 2019). "Free zones could pose challenge to international law". FDI Intelligence.
  24. ^ "Julien Chaisse SOI". ICANN. May 24, 2020.
  25. ^ "WG Members + Mailing Lists". ICANN. 3 June 2020.
  26. ^ "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.
  27. ^ Chaisse, Julien; Li, Lisa Zhuoyue (2016). "SHAREHOLDER PROTECTION RELOADED REDESIGNING THE MATRIX OF SHAREHOLDER CLAIMS FOR REFLECTIVE LOSS". Stanford Journal of International Law. 52 (1): 51–94. ISSN 0731-5082.
  28. ^ Chaisse, Julien; Qian, Xu (2021). "Conservative Innovation: The Ambiguities of the China International Commercial Court". American Journal of International Law. 115: 17–21. doi:10.1017/aju.2020.81. ISSN 2398-7723.
  29. ^ Chaisse, Julien; Ji, Xueliang (October 2020). "The Pervasive Problem of Special Economic Zones for International Economic Law: Tax, Investment, and Trade Issues". World Trade Review. 19 (4): 567–588. doi:10.1017/S1474745620000129. ISSN 1474-7456. S2CID 219761614.
  30. ^ Kirkwood, Jamieson; Chaisse, Julien (2021-04-01). "One Stone, Two Birds: Can China Leverage WTO Accession to Build the BRI?". Journal of World Trade. 55 (2).
  31. ^ Chaisse, Julien (February 2023). "'The Black Pit:' Power and Pitfalls of Digital FDI and Cross-Border Data Flows". World Trade Review. 22 (1): 73–89. doi:10.1017/S1474745622000337. ISSN 1474-7456. S2CID 255775851.
  32. ^ 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.
  33. ^ Chaisse, Julien; Chaisse, Julien, eds. (2019-02-21). China's International Investment Strategy: Bilateral, Regional, and Global Law and Policy. International Economic Law Series. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-882745-0.
  34. ^ Pennisi, Giuseppe (11 January 2019). "Ombre cinesi. Cosa ha prodotto l'accordo tra Roma e Pechino" (in Italian). Formiche.net.
  35. ^ Spalińska, Aleksandra (2020). "Sixty Years of European Integration and Global Power Shifts: Perceptions, Interactions and Lessons, edited by J. Chaisse (London: Hart, 2020, ISBN 9781509933723); xviii+502pp., £85.00 hb". JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. 58 (6): 1637–1638. doi:10.1111/jcms.13115. ISSN 1468-5965. S2CID 230655677.
  36. ^ Wine Law and Policy: From National Terroirs to a Global Market. Brill Nijhoff. 2020-11-23. ISBN 978-90-04-43831-6.
  37. ^ Julien Chaisse; Leïla Choukroune; Sufian Jusoh (2021). Handbook of International Investment Law and Policy. Springer. ISBN 978-981-13-3614-0.
  38. ^ "Julien Chaisse". National Press Foundation. Retrieved 2021-08-21.
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  42. ^ Power, John. "At G20, divisions hinder bid to blame Russia for inflation crisis". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
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  45. ^ "PRIMER: EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment". International Financial Law Review. 23 February 2021. Retrieved 2021-08-21.
  46. ^ "EU won't follow Trump into a trade war over Hong Kong". POLITICO. 2020-05-28. Retrieved 2021-08-21.
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