Professor FANG Meng Mandy joined the City University School of Law as an Assistant Professor in July 2020. Professor FANG held post-doctoral fellowships at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the National University of Singapore (NUS). She obtained her Ph.D. from CUHK, LLM from University College London, and Bachelor of Management and Bachelor of Laws degrees from Chongqing University.

Her research interests focus on the interface between international trade, environmental protection, and energy transition. Her publications appear in journals such as the Virginia Journal of International Law, Leiden Journal of International Law, World Trade Review, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Utilities Policy, and edited books published by Cambridge University Press, among others. Her research project on China’s environmental governance of plastic pollution received funding (HKD 471,500) from the Hong Kong Government, Research Grant Council for a duration of 24 months. She was awarded the Richard M. Buxbaum Prize for Teaching in Comparative Law by the American Society of Comparative Law in 2023.

Publications

Journal Articles

• ‘When Electrification Meets Reindustrialization: The First EU Green Electric Vehicle Subsidies and the WTO Consistency’ (2025) 35 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law (forthcoming)
• ‘Multi-Purpose Green Industrial Policy and the WTO: An Unavoidable Clash?’ (2024) World Trade Review (forthcoming)
• ‘Climbing up the Critical Mineral Value Chains: The Global South and Green Industrialization in an Era of Disruption’ (2024) 57(3) Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (forthcoming)
• ‘A Never-ending US-China Solar Trade War? The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act and International Trade Law’ (2024) 33(1) Minnesota Journal of International Law 189-225
• ‘Unleashing the Green Potential: Assessing Hong Kong’s Building Solar PV Capacity’ (2024) 369 Applied Energy 123567 (with Hanwei Liang and others)
• ‘When Decarbonization Meets Industrialization: The First WTO Dispute Between the EU and U.K.’ (2023) 63(2) Virginia Journal of International Law 165-208
• ‘“Unforeseen Developments” Before and After US – Safeguard Measure on PV Products: High Standard or New Standard?’ (2023) 22(5) World Trade Review 541-561 (with Weihuan Zhou)
• ‘Regulating EV Batteries Carbon Footprint: EU’s Climate Ambition or Green Protectionism?’ (2023) 53(7) Environmental Law Reporter 10590-10604
• ‘China’s Battle Against Marine Plastic Pollution at the Local Level: A Case Study of Sanya City, Hainan Province’ (2023) 37 Ocean Yearbook 249-275
• ‘Advancing ‘Net Zero Competition’ in Asia-Pacific Under a Dynamic Era: A Comparative Study on the Carbon Neutrality Policy Toolkit in Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong’ (2023) Global Public Policy and Governance 12-40 (with Yunhong Liu and Liang Dong)
• ‘Low-Hanging Fruit’? Direct Supply in China’s Natural Gas Market Reform’ (2022) 15(5) Journal of World Energy Law & Business 367-381
• ‘Shedding Any New Light? The WTO’s Latest Ruling in the US-China Solar Battle’ (2022) 17(1) Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy 239-277
• ‘China’s Textbook Approach to Regulatory Reform of the Natural Gas Market’ (2022) 76 Utilities Policy 101369 (with Anatole Boute)
• ‘Greening the Road: China’s Low-carbon Energy Transition and International Trade Regulation’ (2022) 35(2) Leiden Journal of International Law 357-378 (with Weihuan Zhou)
• ‘Old Wine in a New Bottle? Green Industrial Policy and the Use of Safeguards in the Solar Sector’ (2021) 55(4) Journal of World Trade 573-596
• ‘Subsidizing Technology Competition: China’s Evolving Practices and International Trade Regulation in the Post-Pandemic Era’ (2021) 30(3) Washington International Law Journal 470-544 (with Weihuan Zhou)
• ‘A Crisis or an Opportunity? The Trade War between the US and China in the Solar PV Sector’ (2020) 54(1) Journal of World Trade 103-126
• ‘Shades of Green: Mapping the Parameters of the GATT Article III:8(a) Government Procurement Derogation in the Renewable Energy Transition’ (2019) 20(3) Journal of World Investment and Trade 553-576
• ‘Marine Plastic Pollution in Asia: All Hands on Deck!’ (2019) 3(1) Chinese Journal of Environmental Law 11-46 (with Beatriz Gracia and Jolene Lin)
• ‘The Contribution of State-Owned Enterprises to Climate Change Mitigation in China’ (2017) 7(2-3) Climate Law 97-124 (with Benoit Mayer and Mikko Rajavuori)

Book Chapters

• ‘Climate Change Governance at the Local Level in China: Guangdong’s Decarbonization Policy Experiment in the Clean Energy Transition’ in Cathrin Zengerling et al., (eds) Edward Elgar Handbook on Cities and Climate Change Law (Edward Elgar, 2024) (forthcoming)
• ‘Local Content Policies and the WTO Regime: Addressing Contentions and Trade-offs’ in Damilola S. Olawuyi (ed) Local Content, Sustainable Development and Treaty Implementation in Global Energy Markets (Cambridge University Press, 2021) 41-62
• ‘China’s Legal Framework for the Development of Renewable Energy under the Context of Climate Change’ in Xiangbai He, Hao Zhang and Alexander Zahar (eds) Climate Change Law in China in Global Context (Routledge, 2020) 68-83
• ‘The Rise of Trade Remedies on Renewable Energy Sector and the Need for a Bilateral Agreement between the EU and China’ in Peter Hefele, Michael Palocz-Andresen and Maximilian Rech (eds) Climate and Energy Protection in the EU and China (Springer, 2019) 73-84

Book Reviews

• Review of New Asian Regionalism in International Economic Law by Pasha L. Hsieh (Cambridge University Press, 2022) in Asia Pacific Law Review (2022) 30(2) 431-433

Reports and Other Publications

• ‘The APCEL Guide to Singapore and ASEAN Environmental Law: Climate Change’ (NUS APCEL, Singapore, 2019), 16 pages
• ‘The APCEL Guide to Singapore and ASEAN Environmental Law: Pollution’ (NUS APCEL, Singapore, 2019), 34 pages
• ‘Analysis of Panel Report, Indonesia – Importation of Horticultural Products, Animals and Animal Products’ in Jan Wouters and Geert Van Calster (eds), Oxford Reports on International Trade Decisions (Oxford University Press, 2019), 12 pages
• Report on ‘The Future of Global Energy Security in the Age of Digitalization for Konrad-Adenauer-Stifung Regional Project Energy Security and Climate Change Asia Pacific (2018), 7 pages

Op-eds

• ‘WTO Struggles with US-China Clean Energy Competition’ (East Asia Forum, 26/05/2024), available at: https://eastasiaforum.org/2024/05/26/wto-struggles-with-us-china-clean-energy-competition/
• ‘Rethinking WTO Rules on Chinese Industrial Subsidies and Approaches for Future Reform’ (Institute for International Trade, 16/02/2021), available at: https://iit.adelaide.edu.au/news/list/2021/02/16/rethinking-wto-rules-on-chinese-industrial-subsidies-and-approaches-for-future/ (with Weihuan Zhou)

Grants

• Early Career Scheme (ECS), Hong Kong Government, China’s Environmental Governance of Plastic Pollution: Mission (Im)possible? Amount: HKD 471,500, 2024 – 2026 (Principal Investigator) (collaborator: Wanxin Li)
• City University of Hong Kong Start-up Grant, Fueling the Dragon: The Reform of China’s Gas Sector in the 14th Five-Year Plan (FYP) Period, Amount: HKD 300,000, 2021 – 2023 (Principal Investigator)
• Center for Public Affairs and Law Grant, City University of Hong Kong, Fair, Green and Smart: A Lab for Sustainable Development, Amount: HKD 500,000, 2021 – 2023 (Co-Principal Investigator)

Awards

• The 2023 Richard M. Buxbaum Prize for Teaching in Comparative Law, awarded by the Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law, November 2023
• EU-China CRN Best Paper Award, the Fifth Workshop on Europe-Asia Relations in Global Politics: EU-Asian Energy Politics in the 21st Century, March 2016

Editorial Positions and Professional Activities

• Editorial Member, Chinese Journal of Environmental Law
• Panellist for the 19th Edition of the John H. Jackson Moot Court Competition 2021 Final Round, June 2021
• Panellist for the 19th Edition of the John H. Jackson Moot Court Competition 2021 West and South Asia Regional Round, April 2021
• Panellist for the 17th Edition of the John H. Jackson Moot Court Competition 2019 Asia-Pacific Regional Round, February 2019

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