Julien Chaisse, a professor at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) School of Law, is a leading expert in international economic law, dispute resolution, and digital law. His research integrates legal scholarship with insights from economics, technology, and international relations. Dr. Chaisse serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Investment & Trade and the Asia Pacific Law Review, and he pens the “Global Lawyer,” a bimonthly column in the Financial Times’ fDI Intelligence Magazine.

Dr. Chaisse is listed among Stanford University’s top 2% most highly cited scientists. His research is frequently referenced by international tribunals and courts in the US and Europe, reflecting its influence beyond academia. He has also been involved in policy discussions on data free flow, contributing to initiatives such as “Paths towards Free and Trusted Data Flows” and “Overcoming Barriers to Cross-Border Data Flows,” which were acknowledged by the G7 Digital and Tech Ministers in their April 2023 Ministerial Declaration. His work has been recognised through awards, including the CityU Outstanding Research Award (2023), the Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship (2022) from the Research Grants Council (RGC), the Smit-Lowenfeld Prize (2020) from the International Arbitration Club of New York, and the CUHK Vice-Chancellor’s Young Researcher Award (2018).

At CityU, Dr. Chaisse is leading three major research projects supported by competitive grants. He is currently working on two projects funded by the Hong Kong General Research Fund: one focusing on WTO dispute initiation and another on the role of settlement offers in Investor-State Dispute Settlement. He is also investigating the relationship between national security regulations and foreign investment, supported by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council and the German Academic Exchange Service.

He serves as an expert reviewer for institutions such as the European Education and Culture Executive Agency. He also reviews research proposals for Singapore’s Academic Research Fund (AcRF), Excellence in Research Australia, the Dutch Research Council, and the Swiss National Science Foundation. Additionally, he is a member of the Peer-Review College of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds editorial positions on several high-impact academic journals.

Dr. Chaisse’s contributions extend to leadership roles, including chairing the Asia-Pacific FDI Network (APFN) and serving on the Steering Committee of the Academic Forum on Investor-State Dispute Settlement (AF-ISDS). His advisory roles also extend to several prominent boards, including the Financial Times’ fDi Intelligence, World Arbitration Update (WAU), the Academy of International Dispute Resolution & Professional Negotiation (AIDRN), the National Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), the Asian Academy of International Law (AAIL), and the World Free Zone Convention (WFZC). Dr. Chaisse’s expertise as a senior arbitrator is recognised through appointments with major arbitration institutions, including DIAC, SIAC, HKIAC, ADNDRC, and XAAC, as well as his inclusion on the EU List of Experts Suitable for Appointment as Chairpersons for Arbitrations. Dr. Chaisse is a sought-after expert who advises on trade, investment, and tax treaty negotiations and has advised on the amendment and drafting of domestic legislation in more than 30 jurisdictions.

Before joining CityU in 2019, Dr. Chaisse spent a decade at the Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong. His earlier positions include roles at the World Trade Institute, Sciences Po Aix, and the French Embassy in India. He has held visiting fellowships and professorships at institutions such as Columbia University, Paris 1 University (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Oxford University, National Taiwan University, Melbourne University, and Tokyo University, reflecting his global influence.

Awards

• Stanford University Top 2% Most Highly Cited Scientists (2023)
• Outstanding Research Award (2023), City University of Hong Kong
• Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship (2021-2022), Hong Kong Research Grants Council
• The Vitivinicultural Law OIV Award (2021), International Jury of the International Organisation of Vine and Wine
• Tenth annual Smit-Lowenfeld Prize (2020), International Arbitration Club of New York
• Vice-Chancellor’s Young Researcher Award (2018), Chinese University of Hong Kong (85^th Congregation)
• Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award (2015), Chinese University of Hong Kong (82^nd Congregation)
• Research Excellence Award (2012), Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• European Union Law Award, Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis (2008), University of Aix-Marseille

Selected Publications

Articles in Law Journals and Other Scholarly Reviews

• “Arbitration in Cross-Border Data Protection Disputes”, 16(1) Journal of International Dispute Settlement 1-18 (2025)
• “Normative Realignment in Domestic Trade Barriers Procedures: Driving Unilateralism in the EU, US, and China,” (with X. Su) 24(1) World Trade Review 1-20 (2025)
• Plurilateralism: A New Form of International Economic Ordering?, 26(1/2) Journal of World Investment & Trade (Forthcoming 2025).
• “The Onset of a New Doctrine in U.S. Foreign Economic Policy: Paradigmatic Shifts in Outbound Investment Screening” 56(2) Georgetown Journal of International Law 201-269 (2025)
• “Redefining Jurisdiction in the EU: National Courts and the Achmea Judgment’s Impact on Investment Arbitration”, 35(2) The American Review of International Arbitration 106-120 (2024)
• “Culture and International Trade Law: From Conflict to Coordination”, 23(4) World Trade Review 73-89 (2024).
• “Weaponization of Trade Barrier Investigations: Economic Coercion in China-Taiwan Relations”, (with X. Su) (58)4 Journal of World Trade 521-544 (2024)
• “Sustainable Seas? Assessing Commitments and Implications of the WTO Fisheries Subsidies Agreement,” (2024) 17(2) Asian Journal of WTO law & Health Policy 27-65.
• “Why Is There No Investor State Dispute Settlement in RCEP? Bargaining and Contestation in the Investment Regime” (with A. Lugg, K. Ganeson, M. Elsig, S. Jusoh) 31(1) Business & Politics 1-28 (2024)
• “National Security and WTO Jurisprudence in United States—Origin Marking Requirement,” 117(3) American Journal of International Law 488-493 (2023).
• “Domestic Investment Laws and International Economic Law in the Liberal International Order,” 22(1) World Trade Review 1-17 (2023).
• “The Undertaxed Profits Rule (UTPR): Potential Conflicts with International Law?” (with P. Hongler, I. Mosquera, F. Debelva, and V. Chand) 111(28) Tax Notes International 140-151 (2023).
• ““The Black Pit:” Power and Pitfalls of Digital FDI and Cross-Border Data Flows,” 22(1) World Trade Review 73-89 (2023).
• “Rethinking Umbrella Clauses in International Investment Agreements,” 368 Columbia FDI Perspectives 1-3 (2023).
• “Strategic Evolution: The Changing Face of U.S. Development Finance in World Trade” 57(6) Journal of World Trade 909-932 (2023).
• “Drafting Investment Law: Patterns of Influence in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP),” 25(1) Journal of International Economic Law 110-128 (2022).
• “Toward a Big Bang for the Taxation of the Digitalized Economy: a Business Retrospective, Perspective, and Prospective” 41(3) Virginia Tax Review 345-389 (2022).
• “CAI’s Contribution to International Investment Law: European, Chinese, and Global Perspectives,” 23(4) Journal of World Investment & Trade 497-520 (2022).
• “Umbrella Clauses and Breaches of Contract by Public Entities: Consutel Group v. Algeria,” 37(3) The ICSID Review—Foreign Investment Law Journal 638-644 (2022).
• “Towards Unilateral Economic Law,” 24(2) Journal of International Economic Law 229-257 (2021).
• “Delays Expected but Duration of Delays Unpredictable: Causes, Types, and Symptoms of Procedural Applications in Investment Arbitration” 37(4) Arbitration International 863-901 (2021).
• “Conservative Innovation: The Ambiguities of the China International Commercial Court,” 115(1) American Journal of International Law Unbound 17-22 (2021).
• “Dangerous Liaisons: The Story of Special Economic Zones, International Investment Agreements, and Investor-State Dispute Settlement,” 24(2) Journal of International Economic Law 443-471 (2021).
• “The Pervasive Problem of Special Economic Zones for International Economic Law: Tax, Investment, and Trade Issues,” 19(4) World Trade Review 567-588 (2020).
• “Excessive Costs and Recoverability of Costs Awards in Investment Arbitration,” 21(2-3) Journal of World Investment & Trade 251-299 (2020).
• “Chinese Puzzle: Anatomy of the (Invisible) Belt and Road Investment Treaty,” 23(1) Journal of International Economic Law 245-269 (2020).
• “Cybersecurity and the Protection of Digital Assets,” 21(3) Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law 549-589 (2019).
• “China’s ‘Belt and Road’ Initiative: Mapping the World’s Normative and Strategic Implications,” 52(1) Journal of World Trade 163-185 (2018).
• “Investor-state Arbitration in International Tax Dispute Resolution: A Cut Above Dedicated Tax Dispute Resolution?” 35(2) Virginia Tax Review 149-223 (2016).
• “Navigating the Expanding Universe of International Treaties on Foreign Investment: Creation and Use of a Critical Index,” 18(1) Journal of International Economic Law 79-115 (2015).
• “The Evolving and Multi-layered Investment Regulatory Framework between the European Union and India,” 20(3) European Law Journal 385-422 (2014).
• “Maintaining the WTO’s Supremacy in the International Trade Order: A Proposal to Refine and Revise the Role of the Trade Policy Review Mechanism,” 16(1) Journal of International Economic Law 9-36 (2013).
• “Exploring the Confines of International Investment and Domestic Health Protections: General exceptions clause as a forced perspective,” 39(2/3) American Journal of Law & Medicine 332-361 (2013).
• “Promises and Pitfalls of the European Union Policy on Foreign Investment: How will the New EU Competence on FDI affect the Emerging Global Regime?” 15(1) Journal of International Economic Law 51-84 (2012). 
• “Sovereign Wealth Funds as Corporations in the Making: Economic Feasibility and Regulatory Strategies,” 45(4) Journal of World Trade 837-875 (2011).
• “Why Will China Establish a Government-Sponsored Response Mechanism in Countervailing Games?” 10(2) Journal of World Investment & Trade 227-240 (2009).
• “Implementing World Trade Organization Rules through Negotiation and Sanction,” 28(1) University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 153-186 (2007).
• “Adapting the European Community Legal Structure to the International Trade,” 17(6) European Business Law Review 1615-1635 (2006).

Edited Journal Special Issues

• Plurilateralism: A New Form of International Economic Ordering?, (with G. Dimitropoulos & R. Chen) 26(1/2) Journal of World Investment & Trade (Forthcoming 2025).
• Domestic Investment Laws and International Economic Law in the Liberal International Order, (with G. Dimitropoulos) 22(1) World Trade Review (2023) 192.
• Rethinking Asia-Pacific Regionalism and New Economic Agreements, (with P. Hsieh) 31(2) Asia Pacific Law Review (2023) 289.
• The EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment’s Contribution to International Investment Law: European, Chinese, and Global Perspectives, (with M. Burnay) 23(4) Journal of World Investment & Trade (2022) 202.
• Towards Unilateral Economic Law: Special Economic Zones in International Economic Law (with G. Dimitropoulos) 24(2) Journal of International Economic Law (2021) 285.
• The Governance of Global Commons: Chinese Perspectives (with M. Burnay) 22(5) International Community Law Review (2020) 227.
• The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (with E. Whitsitt, F. Sourgens, T. Ishikawa) 19(5) Transnational Dispute Management (2018) 515.
• China’s One Belt, One Road-- Consequences for the World of Arbitration (with T. Cheng, M. Chi) 17(3) Transnational Dispute Management (2016) 421.
• Les économies asiatiques face aux défis de la compétitivité internationale  19(1) Revue Economique et Sociale (2009) 172.

Edited Books and Monographs

• The International Law of Economic Integration (with C. Herrmann) (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming 2025).
• Hong Kong as an Actor in International Economic Law: Multilateralism, Bilateralism, and Unilateralism (Hart, Studies in International Trade and Investment Law, 2024) 328.
• Method and Practice of Transnational Law: Building Bridges Across Disciplines (Hart, 2023) 432.
• Wine Law and Policy: From National Terroirs to a Global Market (with F. Dias Simões & D. Friedmann) (Brill, 2020) 708. 
• China’s International Investment Strategy: Bilateral, Regional, and Global Law and Policy (Oxford University Press, 2019) 576. 
• The Regulation of Global Water Services Market (Cambridge University Press, 2017) 446. 
• International Economic Law and Governance: Essays in the Honour of Mitsuo Matsushita (Oxford University Press, 2016) 624. 
• International Taxation: Law and Practice in Hong Kong and China (with M. Lang) (Wolters Kluwer, 2015) 337.

Textbooks

• International Commercial Contracts (Elgar Advanced Introductions series, Forthcoming 2025).
• Legal Problems of Economic Globalization: A Commentary on the Law and Practice (3^rd Edition) (Wolters Kluwer, 2024) 992.
• The Elgar Companion to the World Trade Organization (with C. Rodríguez-Chiffelle) (Edward Elgar, 2023) 950.

Chapters in Books

• “Legal Duality in Blockchain Technology: Linking Investment and Innovation” in New Technologies and International Investment Law (edited by P. Delimatsis, G. Dimitropoulos, and A. Gourgourinis) (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2026).
• “The Asian International Arbitration Centre” in Max Planck Encyclopaedia of International Procedural Law (edited by H. Ruiz Fabri) (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming 2025).
• “The Appeal in International Investment Arbitration” in The Award in International Investment Arbitration (edited by K. Fach & C. Titi) (Oxford University Press, 2024) 443-466.
• “Systematic Rivalries and Multilevel Governance in Asia: A Constitutional Perspective” in Constitutionalism, Transnational Governance Failures and Policy Responses (edited by E-U. Petersmann & A. Steinbach) (Brill, 2024) 362–394.
• “Advancing the Method and the Practice of Transnational Law” in Building Bridges Across Disciplines: Liber Amicorum in Honour of Francis Snyder (edited by J. Chaisse & O. Stefan) (Hart, 2023) 2-19. 
• “The China International Commercial Court: Architecture, Pitfalls, and Promises” in International Commercial Courts: The Future of Transnational Adjudication (edited by S. Brekoulakis & G. Dimitropoulos) (Cambridge University Press, 2022) 468-488. 
• “Praised, But Not Practiced: EU’s Paradoxes of Hybrid Dispute Resolution” in Multi-Tier Approaches to the Resolution of International Disputes: A Global and Comparative Study (edited by A. Reyes and G. Weixia) (Cambridge University Press, 2021) 363-383.
• “The Resolution of International Commercial and Financial Disputes” (with C. Shang) in Multi-Tier Approaches to the Resolution of International Disputes: A Global and Comparative Study (edited by A. Reyes and G. Weixia) (Cambridge University Press, 2021) 92-109.
• “Investment Rule-making in Asia–European Union Relations: Legal and Policy Considerations” in The Asian Turn in Foreign Investment (edited by C. Brown and M. Mohan) (Cambridge University Press, 2021) 218-241. 
• “Plea of Illegality in International Arbitration” in Max Planck Encyclopaedia of International Procedural Law (edited by H. Ruiz Fabri) (Oxford University Press, 2021) 885-912.
• “China’s International Investment Law and Policy Regime: Identifying the Three Tracks” in China’s International Investment Strategy: Bilateral, Regional, and Global Law and Policy (edited by J. Chaisse) (Oxford University Press, 2019) 1-22. 
• “The ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement: Much More Than a BIT of Protection for Foreign Investors?” in ASEAN Law in the New Regional Economic Order: Global Trends and Shifting Paradigms (edited by B. Mercurio & P. Hsieh) (Cambridge University Press, 2019) 232-250.
• “Global Water Services Market and the Law: A Paradigm in the Making” in The Regulation of Global Water Services Market (edited by J. Chaisse) (Cambridge University Press, 2017) 12-41.
• “Untangling the Triangle: Issues for State-Controlled Entities in Trade, Investment and Competition Law” in International Economic law and Governance: Essays in the Honour of Mitsuo Matsushita (edited by J. Chaisse and T-Y. Lin) (Oxford University Press, 2016) 233-258.
• “Developing and Strengthening International Economic Law: The Contribution of Mitsuo Matsushita” in International Economic law and Governance: Essays in the Honour of Mitsuo Matsushita (edited by J. Chaisse and T-Y. Lin) (London: Oxford University Press, 2016) 8-28.
• “The Impact of International Investment Agreements on the Greek Default” in International Economic Law after the Global Crisis: A Tale of Fragmented Disciplines (edited by C-L. Lim and B. Mercurio) (Cambridge University Press, 2015) 306-328.
• “The Regulation of Investment in the TPP: Towards a Defining International Agreement for the Asia-Pacific Region” in The Regionalization of Investment Treaty Arrangements: Developments and Implications (edited by J. Calamita and M. Sattorova) (British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Series ‘Current Issues in Investment Treaty Law’ Volume 5, 2014) 270-319 .
• “The Regulation of Sovereign Wealth Funds in the European Union” in Sovereign Investment: Concerns and Policy Reactions (edited by K. Sauvant, L. Sachs, and W. Schmit Jongbloed) (Oxford University Press, 2012) 462-495.
• “Towards Innovations in Investment Rulemaking?” in The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Quest for Twenty-first Century Trade Agreement (edited by C. Lim, D. Elms, P. Low) (Cambridge University Press, 2011) 147-170.
• “The Regulatory Framework of International Investment: The Challenge of Fragmentation in a Changing World Economy” in The Prospects of International Trade Regulation: From Fragmentation to Coherence (edited by T. Cottier and P. Delimatsis) (Cambridge University Press 2010) 417-451.

Research Grants

• ‘The Black Box of Settlement Offers: Uncovering the Hidden Dynamics of Investor-State Dispute Settlement’ as principal investigator, General Research Fund (GRF), Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council (RGC Ref No. 11613524), 2025-2027, HK$727,000M
• ‘Domestic National Security Regulation and Foreign Investment,’ Germany/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme as co-investigator (with Christoph Herrmann), Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council (RGC) and German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (RGC Ref No. G-CityU102/22), 2023-2025, HK$300,000
• ‘Redefining Global Governance: A Tax, Trade, and Investment Perspective' as co-investigator (with Irma Mosquera & Allison Christians), NIAS-Lorentz Program, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023-2025, HK$1.5M
• ‘To Litigate or Not to Litigate at the World Trade Organization? A Comparative Investigation of the Determinants of Dispute Initiation at the WTO' as principal investigator, General Research Fund (GRF), Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council (RGC Ref No. 11608122), 2023-2025, HK$1.3M
• ‘The Tax Factor of the Global Trade War: Designing Better Digital Tax Rules’ as principal investigator, Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS), Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council (RGC Ref No. 31000121), 2021-2023, HK$453,900
• ‘Anatomy of Hong Kong’s International Trade Law’ as principal investigator, General Research Fund (GRF), Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council (RGC Ref No. 11606820), 2020-2022, HK$999,600
• ‘The European Union at the Crossroads of Global Order (EUCROSS)’ as co-investigator, Jean Monnet Network (led by KU Leuven's Centre for Global Governance Studies), European Union's Erasmus+ programme, 2018-2021, HK$3M
• ‘The COP and MOOT Project for Climate Change Education in Hong Kong’ as principal investigator, Environment and Conservation Fund (ECF) EECA No. 1795, 2018-2020, HK$721,000
• ‘Towards a China-EU Bilateral Investment Treaty-: Issues, Challenges and Directions’ as principal investigator, General Research Fund (GRF), Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council, 2016-2018, HK$914,440
• ‘International Investment Treaties and Arbitration across Asia’ as co-investigator, Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP140102526) 2015-2018, HK$2M
• ‘Managing the Globalization of Water Services in a World Affected by Climate Change: Regulatory and Economic Challenges’ as principal investigator, Research Development Fund, World University Network (WUN) 2013-2017, HK$890,000
• ‘Consumer Policy in China: Protecting the Citizens, Strengthening the Domestic Market and Building an Ecological Civilization’ as co-investigator, Macau SAR Research Grants Council, 2016-2018, HK$1.5M
• ‘The Changing Paradigm of Economic Diplomacy in Asia’ as principal investigator, Taiwan Collaboration Fund, CUHK Office of Academic Links (OAL), 2015-2016, HK$390,00
• ‘The Practice of Treaty-Shopping in international law’ as principal investigator, AECSRP IEEM Academic Research Project Grant, 2014-2015, HK$80,000
• ‘Hong Kong Foreign Direct Investment Profile’ as principal investigator, supported by CUHK New Asia College the Chiap Hua Cheng's Foundation Fund in cooperation with Columbia University, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), 2013-2015, HK$250,000
• ‘United States of America and China Trade Litigation in the WTO’ (我国入世以来利用WTO争端解决机制解决中美贸易争端的实践与经验研究) as co-investigator, Chinese Ministry of Education (No. 12JJD790022), 2010-2012, HK$500,000
• ‘Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Increase Foreign Direct Investment Flows? Revisiting the role of legal parameters in economic empirical research’ as principal investigator, supported by the Vienna University of Business and Economics (WU), Arbeitskammer Vienna (Austria), and the CUHK Cheng Foundation Fund (No. I12076), 2010-2014, HK$2M
• ‘Regulatory Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Fund in making’ as principal investigator, Earmarked Research Grant (ERG), CUHK, 2009-2011, HK$60,000

Professional Publications

• “The Chinese EV tariff domino game,” (The Global Lawyer column), Financial Times fDi Intelligence (2024).
• “Examining US export controls against China,” East Asia Forum (2024).
• “We must pursue an AI tax,” (The Global Lawyer column), Financial Times fDi Intelligence (2024).
• “Advanced semiconductors, quantum computing and AI: legal and regulatory perspectives,” Financier Worldwide (2024).
• “CBAM will influence FDI strategies,” (The Global Lawyer column), Financial Times fDi Intelligence (2024).
• “The Digital Currency Uprising is a Game Changer for Investment,” (The Global Lawyer column), Financial Times fDi Intelligence (2024).
• “From Fragmentation to Coordination: The Case for Establishing an Institutional Mechanism to Operationalize Cross Border Data Flows,” Data for Common Purpose Initiative Briefing Paper, World Economic Forum (2023).
• “Redefining Resolution of Data Disputes: Why Arbitration Holds the Key,” Kluwer Arbitration Blog (2023)
• “Private Equity’s Global Ambitions and Regulatory Realities,” (The Global Lawyer column), Financial Times fDi Intelligence (2023).
• “Shielding the Treasure Trove: Cybersecurity Strategies for Preserving Corporate Finances,” Financier Worldwide (2023).
• “Home Rules: How Domestic Laws are Flipping the FDI Script,” (The Global Lawyer column), Financial Times fDi Intelligence (2023).
• “Is China Still Worth the Risk after Expanded Anti-Espionage Law?” (The Global Lawyer column), Financial Times fDi Intelligence (2023).
• “The Internationalisation of Legal Education: Challenges, Objectives and Benefits,” The Hong Kong Lawyer (2023).
• “Data Free Flow with Trust: Overcoming Barriers to Cross-Border Data Flows,” Data for Common Purpose Initiative Briefing Paper, Annual Meeting in Davos (AM2023), World Economic Forum (2023).
• “Is this the end for the Energy Charter Treaty?” (The Global Lawyer column), Financial Times fDi Intelligence (2023).
• “FDI screening: CFIUS remains the benchmark, while the EU’s seems toothless (for now)” (The Global Lawyer column), Financial Times fDi Intelligence (2022).
• “Initial Litigation Token Offering: The Digitised Future of Litigation Funding,” International Financial Law Review (2022).
• “The Global Minimum Tax: How it will Impact Business,” Financier Worldwide (2022).
• “Is the US going to screen outbound FDI?” (The Global Lawyer column), Financial Times fDi Intelligence (2022).
• “Hong Kong’s Case for Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) membership,” East Asia Forum (2022)
• “Data regulation more important to digital FDI than you think” (The Global Lawyer column),” Financial Times fDi Intelligence (2022).
• “Fighting fund: Can third-party financing tip the scales for dispute resolution?” Asia Business Law Journal (2021)
• “Digital Trade in Services and Taxation - White Paper October 2021” Platform for Shaping the Future of Trade and Global Economic Interdependence (contributor),” World Economic Forum (2021).
• “Hong Kong’s New Approach to Investment Treaty Arbitration,” Kluwer Arbitration Blog (2021)
• “The Case for Hong Kong joining Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP),” East Asia Forum (2021)
• “Singapore’s Amendment to Its International Arbitration Act Pledges Its Leadership in the Asia-Pacific Region,” Kluwer Arbitration Blog (2020)
• “China’s Massive Hainan Free-trade Port,” Financial Times - fDi Intelligence (2020).
• “A Roadmap for Cross-Border Data Flows: Future-Proofing Readiness and Cooperation in the New Data Economy (contributor),” World Economic Forum (2020).
• “White Paper on Tax, Digitalization and Globalization,” World Economic Forum, Tax and Globalization Working Group (2020).
• “China Cannot Escape Middle-income Trap unless it Solves Reshoring Quandary,” Financial Times - fDi Intelligence (2020).
• “Strategic Brief on Misconceptions around Trade Balances,” World Economic Forum, Global Future Council on International Trade and Investment (2019).
• “Strategic Brief for the Annual Meeting of Stewards of International Trade and Investment,” World Economic Forum, Global Future Council on International Trade and Investment (2018).
• “Was 2016 the Year the World Turned its Back on Free Trade?” The Conversation (2017).
  “Strategic Brief for Trade Ministers on Creating an Inclusive Trade Agenda,” World Economic Forum, Global Future Council on International Trade and Investment (2017).
• “Strategic Brief for the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany,” World Economic Forum, Global Future Council on International Trade and Investment (2017).
• “Another Conflict of Norms-- How BEPS and International Taxation Relate to Investment Treaties,” International Institute for Sustainable Development - Investment Treaty News  (2017).
• “Strategic Brief for Trade Ministers on the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism,” World Economic Forum, Global Future Council on International Trade and Investment (2017).
• “Strategic Brief on Trade Rules for the Global Tech Race,” World Economic Forum, Global Future Council on International Trade and Investment (2017).
• “Rising Protectionism Threatens Global Trade: WTO Law and Litigation in Asia” 19(3) Asian Dispute Review (2017) 112–118.
• “TTIP: ¿hacia el caos de otro paradigma comercial?” 17(10) International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) Puentes (2016).
• “International Investment Law and Taxation: From Coexistence to Cooperation” Think Piece, World Economic Forum (WEF) - E15initiative (2016).
• “Privatización del agua en América Latina: implicancias para las políticas de desarrollo sostenible” 16(7) International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) Puentes (2015).
• “Tendencias globales en la construcción de normas y arbitraje de inversion” 15(8) International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) Puentes (2014).