Xueji SU

Research Assistant Professor

BIOGRAPHY

I am a Research Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Macau and licensed lawyer in mainland China. Before joining University of Macau, I obtained my PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and worked at City University of Hong Kong. I am interested in international economic law, law and technology, European Union law, human rights law and interdisciplinary studies of law and global governance. I am also researcher at International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), and served as visiting fellow/researcher at 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). I also serve as visiting lecture at Malborne Law School and City University of Hong Kong.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

World Trade Law and Investment Law

Law and Technology

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

Selected publications

• “Normative Realignment in Domestic Trade Barriers: Procedures: Driving Unilateralism in the EU, US, and China”, World Trade Review (forthcoming) (with Julien CHAISSE) (SSCI)
• “Stick-Based Approach to Human Rights Protection: Are Unilateral Export Controls the Right Answer?”, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (forthcoming)
• “Regulating Aberration: Taping into the Ordinary Course of Trade Test vis-à-vis State-caused Distortions in Commerce”, Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy (forthcoming) (SSCI)
• “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” 2024 Chinese Journal of International Law (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.