Contributors

Leigha Crout is an associate professor at Syracuse University College of Law. She writes and teaches on the subjects of international law, comparative constitutional law, and human rights.
Matthew S. Erie is an associate professor at the University of Oxford. He practiced law in Beijing and New York City before entering academia. A comparativist and anthropologist by training, he has taught law in the United States, United Kingdom, Singapore, Cambodia, Pakistan, and China.
Marco Germanò is a research associate at the University of Oxford and a research assistant at the Institute of Applied Economic Research, Brazil. He holds a master’s degree from Peking University and has held visiting researcher positions at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the University of California, Berkeley.
Aaron Halegua is a practicing lawyer based in New York City and a research fellow at New York University School of Law and the University of Oxford. He assisted 2,400 Chinese construction workers trafficked to Saipan to recover US$14 million in backpay. Aaron has also written extensively on labor issues with China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
Colin Hawes is an associate professor in the Law Faculty, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He has published widely on Chinese corporations, law, and culture, including three books, the latest being The Chinese Corporate Ecosystem (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Kai-Shen Huang is a research fellow at the Research Institute for Democracy, Society and Emerging Technology under the National Science and Technology Council (Taiwan). He specializes in China’s critical technology policies and the application of AI in dispute resolution and public administration.
Otari Kakhidze is a former UNESCO Great Wall fellow at the School of Law of Tsinghua University. His research focuses on the intellectual property, digital, and transport aspects of Chinese development.
Robin Lee is a researcher and writes under a pen name. Their work concerns law and globalization. Robin has a policy background.
Ji Li is the John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law at the University of California, Irvine. His recent book, Negotiating Legality (Cambridge University Press, 2024), explores how Chinese multinational companies interact with the intricate US legal system.
Han Liu is an associate professor of law at Tsinghua University specializing in comparative constitutional law and cyber law. He regularly advises on cybersecurity law and cross-border litigations involving leading high-tech firms, with his opinions accepted by administrative agencies and courts in China and other jurisdictions.
Michael Liu is a PhD candidate at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society of Leiden University. Previously, Michael was a victims’ counsel at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and taught international law at the Royal University of Law and Economics in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Thembi Madalane is a research associate at the University of Oxford. She is appointed to the General Commercial Panel of the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa, the principal organization of the China-Africa Joint Arbitration Centre. Her PhD at the University of Szeged, Hungary, involves investment dispute settlement related to China.
Charles Ho Wang Mak is a PhD candidate in law at the University of Glasgow and a lecturer in law at Robert Gordon University.
Stanley U. Nweke-Eze is a legal practitioner and academic, admitted to practice law in Nigeria, New York, and England and Wales. He is finalizing a PhD program in International Investment Law (Hong Kong University) and holds LLM degrees in Commercial Law (University of Cambridge) and International Economic Law (Harvard University).
Ngozi S. Nwoko is a sessional lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, Canada, where he teaches Business Associations and Immigration & Citizenship Law. His research is on the regulation of Chinese investments in the extractive industries in Africa and Canada.
Dilini Pathirana is a senior lecturer in the Department of Commercial Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her research interests lie mainly in international investment law, focusing on the legal and (geo)political implications of Chinese investments in Sri Lanka.
Dinesha Samararatne is a professor at the Department of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her research interests include judicial review, constitutionalism and the Global South, fourth branch institutions, women and constitutions, and the rule of law.
Emily Scherr is an environmental lawyer practicing in the United States and was a former staff attorney with the Center for Transnational Environmental Accountability. She graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in 2020.
Nuraiym Syrgak kyzy is a researcher at Data Solutions and an executive director of the nonprofit organization Jaratylysh (organizations pseudonymized) based in Kyrgyzstan. She has worked as a research consultant for national and regional organizations on various topics: children and youth development, informal employment, women entrepreneurship, climate change, and religion.
Ignacio Tornero is a lawyer and business professional and the founder and CEO of the business and legal consulting firm East Consulting. He is an adjunct professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
Yuan Wang is an assistant professor of international relations at Duke Kunshan University.
Jingjing Zhang is a China-trained environmental lawyer, the executive director of the Center for Transnational Environmental Accountability, and a lecturer at the University of Maryland. She works on transnational environmental and climate lawsuits to ensure Chinese companies comply with environmental laws and international human rights norms for their investments overseas.

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