Xueji SU
Research Assistant Professor
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Xueji SU is a Research Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Macau and licensed lawyer in mainland China. Before joining University of Macau, she obtained her PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and worked at City University of Hong Kong. She specializes in international economic law, European Union law and interdisciplinary studies of law and global governance. Dr. Xueji SU recently researches and writes on corporate social responsibility, EU-China economic relations, and international dispute settlement. Dr. Xueji SU has served as visiting fellow/researcher at International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), the Hague Academy of International Law, the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law, European University Institute (EUI), and the Macao Economic & Trade Office to the European Union (EU). She was a recipient of the CUHK Postgraduate Output Award 2023, CUHK Outreach Award 2022, Max Planck Luxembourg Scholarship 2022, and was honoured by the IEEM Academic Prize for Outstanding Graduates in European Union Law in 2017.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
World Trade Law and Investment Law
European Union Law
Contract Law
Human Rights Law
International Law and Global Governance
AWARDS AND RESEARCH GRANTS
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Postgraduate Research Output Award 2023, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2023
The Hague Academy Summer Course Scholarship 2023, The Hague Academy, 2023
Max Planck Luxembourg Scholarship 2022, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European Union and Regulatory Procedural Law, 2022
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Outreach Award 2022, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2022
AECSRP- IEEM Academic Research Grants 2021, European Academic Programme in Macao, 2021
Best Paper Prize at UCASS Graduate Forum on EU Foreign Relations Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2020
IEEM Academic Prize for Outstanding Graduates in European Union Law, European Academic Programme in Macao, 2017
Scholarship for Outstanding Research Output in European Union Law, European Academic Programme in Macao, 2015
2014 Comprehensive Development Scholarship, Central University of Finance and Economics, 2014
Academic Excellence Scholarship for the academic year 2012/2013, School of Law, Central University of Finance and Economics, 2013
Outstanding Person Award in Summer Social Practice Program, Central University of Finance and Economics, 2011
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
“The Unsettled Governance of the Dual-Use Items under Article XXI(b)(ii) GATT: A New Battleground for WTO Security Exceptions”, World Trade Review (forthcoming) (with Alexandr Svetlicinii) (SSCI)
“International Legal Governance of Space Resources and the Role of National Framework: The Case of China” Chinese Journal of International Law (forthcoming) (with Güneş Ünüvar) (SSCI)
“Weaponization of Trade Barrier Investigations: Economic Coercion in International Relations” 2024 58(4) Journal of World Trade 521 (with Julien Chaisse) (SSCI)
“Asian Regionalism and the Shaping of State-owned Enterprises Rules” (2023) 31(2) Asia Pacific Law Review 596-617. (SSCI)
“From Effect to Behavior – Regulating State-Owned Enterprises as Competitors in Trade Agreements” (2023) 57(3) Journal of World Trade 531-553. (SSCI)
“A Critical Analysis of the EU’s Eclectic Foreign Subsidies Regulation: Can the Level Playing Field be Achieved?” (2023) 50(1) Legal Issues of Economic Integration, 67-105. (ESCI)
“Liberalising the Chinese Market: State-Owned Enterprise Disciplines in the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment” (2022) 23(4) Journal of World Investment & Trade, 545-571. (SSCI)
“Regulating Transboundary Harm of Global Pandemic: Substantive Obligations and Procedural Rules” (2023) XXV(2) CURRENTS: Journal of International Economic Law (with Yuxi FENG)
“From Norms to Expectations: Balancing Trade and Security Interests in the Post-COVID-19 World” (2021) 8(2) Manchester Journal of International Economic Law, 162-191 (with Alexandr SVETLICINII). (ESCI)
Book Chapters
“‘National Treatment plus Negative List’ Approach in EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment – An Open Sesame to the Chinese Market?” in Alexandr Svetlicinii and I-Ju Chen (eds.) The EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: Towards a Binding Investment Liberalization (Springer, 2024)
“Normative Power Europe in the Belt and Road Initiative: Challenge for Constructing the Self or an Opportunity for Changing Others?” in Jan Wouters, Michelle Egan, Kolja Raube and Julien Chaisse (eds.) At the Crossroads of World Order: Contestation, Global governance and Europe (Edward Elgar, 2023)
“EU-China Cooperation on Promoting Sustainable Development under the Belt and Road Initiative – Consensus Built on Divergence” in Stephen Minas and Vassilis Ntousas (eds.) The European Union and China’s Belt and Road: Impact, Engagement and Competition. (Routledge, 2021)
Book Reviews and Blog Posts:
“Walking on Thin Ice: Balancing Trade and Security Interests at the WTO”, Blog Post, Opinio Juris, 31 March 20123 (with Alexandr SVETLICINII).
Book Review on Yuwen Li and Cheng Bian, “China’s Foreign Investment Legal Regime: Progress and Limitations (Routledge, 2022)” (2023) 13(2) Asian Journal of International Law 407.
Book Review on G. Matteo Vaccari-Incisa, “China’s Treaty Policy and Practice in International Investment Law and Arbitration: A Comprehensive and Analytical Study (Brill, 2022)” (2024) 32(1) Asia Pacific Law Review 285.