Fenghua Li

Associate Professor, School of Law at University of International Business and Economics

Email: fenghua.li@uibe.edu.cn

I. EDUCATION

Fenghua Li studied law at China University of Political Science and Law (LLB, 2007; LLM, 2010; PhD, 2012) where his PhD thesis was awarded the CUPL Doctoral Thesis Prize, University of Glasgow (PhD, 2015; funded by Glasgow-CSC Scholarship), International Academy for Arbitration Law (Certificate, 2012; funded by Jones Day (Paris) Scholarship) and Hague Academy of International Law (Certificate, 2013; funded by Hague Forum Scholarship).

II. RESEARCH INTERESTS

1. International Economic Law: Investment Law, World Trade

2. International Business Law

3. International Commercial Arbitration

4. Public International Law: Treaty Law, Sustainable Development Law

5. Law and Policy relating to the Belt and Road Initiative

III. EMPLOYMENT AND EXPERIENCE

1. Secretary-General, Centre for Belt and Road Initiative Legal Research affiliated to China Law Society (2020- )

2. Member, Academic Forum on Investor-State Dispute Settlement (2020- )

3. ILA Scholar, International Law Association  (2016- )

4. Shizi Research Fellow, School of Law, Renmin University of China (2015-2018)

5. Visiting Scholar, Institute of International Law at Wuhan University (2018)

6. Visiting Researcher, Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts), University of Copenhagen (2016-2017)

7. Editor, eSharp, Lead editor of Issue 19 (2011-2013)

8. Editor, CUPL Graduate Law Review (2007-2009)

9. Peer Reviewer, ICSID Review–Foreign Investment Law Journal (2012- )

10. MGG Fellow, Managing Global Governance Academy at the German Development Institute (funded by the German Federal Ministry for EconomicCooperation and Development (BMZ)); 16th International Futures (conducted by the Federal Foreign Office and the German Council on Foreign Relations) (2019 )

11. Participant, IGLP Scholars Workshop organised by Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy (2018)

12. Participant, the 3rd IAPL-MPI Post-doctoral Summer School at MPI Luxembourg (2018)

IV. AWARDS

1. 21^st An Zijie International Trade Research Award (2020)

2. DeHeng (Wuhan) Scholarship for Academic Exchange (awarded by Institute of International Law, Wuhan University, 2018)

3. ILA Scholarship Award (awarded by International Law Association, 2016)

4. CUPL Doctoral Thesis Prize (awarded by China University of Political Science and Law, 2013)

5. Glasgow-CSC Scholarship (awarded by University of Glasgow and China Scholarship Council, 2011-2014)

V. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Leifan Wang & Fenghua Li, ‘Alternative Interpretation to the Exception Clause of the ICRW: Implications from Article XX of the GATT’, Marine Policy, vol. 117 (2020).

2. Fenghua Li, ‘Privatizing Dispute Resolution: International Intellectual Property Agreements as a Gateway to Trigger Investor-State Arbitration’, in Loïc Cadiet, Burkhard Hess & Marta Requejo Isidro (eds), Privatizing Dispute Resolution: Trends and Limits, 573-596 (Nomos, 2019).

3. Fenghua Li, ‘The Driving Forces of the Convergence of WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism and International Investment Arbitration’, Journal of World Trade, vol. 52(3), 479-503 (2018).

4. Fenghua Li, ‘The Yukos Cases and the Provisional Application of the Energy Charter Treaty’, Cambridge International Law Journal, vol. 6(1), 75-86 (2017).

5. Fenghua Li, ‘Safeguarding State Sovereignty: The Relevance of Post-award Remedies in ICSID and Non-ICSID Arbitration’, German Yearbook of International Law, vol. 58, 353-378 (2016).

6. Fenghua Li, ‘The Divergence of Post-award Remedies in ICSID and Non-ICSID Arbitration: A Perspective of Foreign Investors’ Interests’, Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, vol. 4(1), 98-127 (2016).

7. Fenghua Li, ‘Tools of Payment in International Trade’, in Jeanne Huang (ed), International Business Law: Chinese and Comparative Perspectives, 175-186 (FLTRP, 2017).

8. Fenghua Li, ‘Trade in Goods: Tariff, TBT, SPS and Trade Remedies’, in Jeanne Huang (ed), International Business Law: Chinese and Comparative Perspectives, 217-260 (FLTRP, 2017).

For more information on Dr Li’s research, please visit his profiles on the following networks:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fenghua-li-0b412320

Twitter: @Fenghua_LI