Speaker: Professor Shi Jingxia, Dean of the School of Law of the University of International Business and Economics
Moderator: Professor Feng Guo, Dean of Wuhan University Law School
Time: May 5, 2017 10:00-11:30
Venue: Wuhan University Law School 323
Speaker profile
Shi Jingxia, Dean and Professor of the School of Law of the University of International Business and Economics. He got Master of Laws and Ph.D from Yale University, USA,and Ph.D. in International Economic Law from Wuhan University.
Main research areas: international economic law (including international investment law, international trade law and international and comparative bankruptcy and reforming laws, etc.). He released dozens of Chinese and English academic papers in Chinese Social Science, Legal Studies, China Law, Journal of World Trade (SSCI), Asia Pacific Law Review (SSCI), Journal of World Investment & Trade, INSOL International Insolvency Review, Australian Journal of Corporate Law and other authoritative academic journals. He wrote "Free Trade and Cultural Diversity in International Law", "WTO Service Trade Law", "WTO International Service Trade Case Study", "Research on Legal Issues of Transnational Bankruptcy" and other monographs Chinese and English .
He is a member of the 7th State Council Academic Degrees Discipline Review Group, a member of the Education Law Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, a member of the National Legal Professional Degree Graduate Education Steering Committee, the Vice President of the China Society of International Economic Law, and the Vice President of the World Trade Organization Law Association of the China Law Society. President and Secretary General. He has served as an external reviewer for many English law journals and as an external examiner and defense expert for many foreign law schools. Recommended by the Chinese government, he was elected a member of the Board of Directors of the UNIDROIT. In addition, he served as a member of the “E15 Initiative” Service Trade Group jointly sponsored by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and the World Economic Forum; was selected as a member of the China Bank by the International Bankruptcy Institute (III) and served as an international bankruptcy Member of the academic department of INSOL International.
He has won dozens of national and provincial awards and honorary titles, including “The Seventh National Top Ten Outstanding Young Jurists”, “China University Higher Education Humanities and Social Sciences Outstanding Research Achievement Award”, and “Qian Duansheng Law Research Achievement Award”. "An Zijie International Trade Research Achievement Award" and "National 100 Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Awards". He has presided over a number of national social science fund projects, special awards funds of the Ministry of Education, the State Council Academic Degree Office, and research projects commissioned by the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, China Development Bank, the Ministry of Commerce, the State Post Bureau, and the AVIC Group. Invited to provide expert advice on a number of legislation (members of the drafting group of the Bankruptcy Law, etc.) and government regulations and Sino-US and Central European BIT negotiations. He has taught the International Economic Law, the Frontier Issues of the National Economic Law, the World Trade Organization Law, the International Trade in Services Law, and the Cross-border Bankruptcy and Reorganization Law in both Chinese and English. He was invited to be a guest speaker at dozens of international conferences to discuss major frontier issues in the field of international economic law. He is qualified as a lawyer in China and New York State. He used to be , a part-time lawyer of Beijing Zhongyin Law Firm and Beijing Junzhi Law Firm and an arbitrator of the International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration (ICC), and currently serves as the arbitrator of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission and Shenzhen Arbitration Commission. , Hangzhou International Court of Arbitration, etc.
