Yilin WANG

Assistant Professor

CURRENT APPOINTMENTS

Assistant Professor, University of Macao (Department of Global Legal Studies)

Visiting Lecturer/Senior Fellow, Melbourne Law School (teach ‘International Law in Asia’)

Managing Editor, Macau Journal of Global Legal Studies

Fellow of the Transnational Association of Legal Scholars

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Ph.D in International Law, Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID)

LL.M. in International Law, Geneva Graduate Institute

MPhil in International Law, China University of Political Science and Law

LL.B, China Hohai University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

International Law Theory and History

International Law and Development

Global Corporations and International Law

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Post-doc Researcher, Universities of Melbourne/Kent, funded by Swiss National Foundation (2022-2023)

Global Academic Fellow, University of Hongkong (discontinued)

Visiting Scholar, Oxford University, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (2022)

Research Associate, ERC funded project – ‘China, Law and Development’, Oxford University (2020-2022)

Research Assistant, UN International Law Commission (2019)

Paralegal, Linklaters LLP (2016)

Managing Editor, The Chinese Journal of Global Governance (Brill) (2015-2016)

RESEARCH OUTPUT

• Interstitial Space and Rival Jurisdictions: The Case of Kowloon Walled City, in Luis Eslava & Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín (eds), Unbound Jurisprudence: Representing Time, Space, and Movement in Global Legal Theory (Cambridge University Pres, forthcoming 2026)
• Bringing Race to the Table, China as a Disqualified Influencer in International Law, in Lys Kulamadayil, Tor Krever and Pragyya Surana (eds)., Social Hierarchies in Catastrophic Times (Hart Publishing, Studies in International Law Series, forthcoming 2026)
• Chinese Kongsi: From the Company-State to the State-Company in Sundhya Pahuja, Tim Connor(eds), Rethinking the Corporate Form across the National/International Divide (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
• Rituals of World Order:Reading Contemporary International Law through Chinese Chunqiu Order, Chinese Journal of International Law, 2025 (with IC.Tong & N.Zhu)
• Learning to Speak International Law – A Tale of Two Chinese Figures, in Matt Craven, Sundhya Pahuja, Gerry Simpson (eds), The Cambridge History of International Law, Volume XI: International Law during the Cold War (1945-1990) (Cambridge University Pres, forthcoming 2025)
• Past as Present: State-ifying the Laws of War, Law and History Review, 2025
• China’s New Multilateralism for Global Health Governance, Asian Journal of Comparative Law, 2023 (with Zhou et.al)
• Locating TWAIL Scholarship in China, Asian Journal of International Law, 2022
• The Origins and Operation of the Gap-filling Function of the GPL, Journal of International Dispute Settlement, 2022
• A Critical Reflection on the Gap-filling Function of the GPL, Cambridge International Law Journal, 2022
• Review of ‘Jens David Ohlin, Election Interference: International Law and the Future of Democracy’, Chinese Journal of International Law, 2022
• The Dissociation of Chinese International Law Scholars from TWAIL, TWAIL Review, 2022
• Warfare to Lawfare under CERD, Opinio Juris, Oct.2021
• The Fight between Interpretation and Modification: A Critique of Sanum v Laos, ICSID Review, 2020
• Perspectives of China Foreign Investment Law, China Commerce and Trade Press, 2019 (with Q.Kong & S.Guo)
• Transparency Standards in Investment Agreement Negotiations, China and WTO Review, 2015 (with Q.Kong)
• The Legal Remedies for Sun Yang’s Setback at Court of Arbitration for Sport, China Trial, 2020
• Reasonable Period of Time in Implementation of WTO Rulings, Chinese Review of International Law, 2018 (with Q.Kong)
• Relationship between International Law and Domestic Law, Intl Law Review of Wuhan Uni., 2018 (with Q.Kong) (人大複印報刊資料收錄)
• On the Remedy Types of International Investment Arbitration Award, Beijing Arbitration, 2017

Symposia: I will co-organise or have co-organised workshops in various places, including in Amsterdam (Colonial Mobility and Legal Encounters: VOC in Asia, 2026, sponsored by UvA Seeds Grant), ANU Canberra (China and TWAIL: Towards a Renewed Engagement, 2025), HKU and UM (Companies in Asia – Law, History and Empire, 2024), Kuala Lumpur/ALSA (Globalising China – the (in)efficiencies of International Legal Technologies, 2023), Geneva (International Law Beyond the Liberal Epistemologies, 2022, sponsored by Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale)

TEACHING AREAS

Jurisprudence and legal theories, public international law, transnational law, international economic and investment law, human rights, civil law, and property law

AWARDS

• Second Prize of the Asian Society of International Law Young Scholar Biennial Prize in 2023, on the paper Locating TWAIL Scholarship in China
• Winner of the Young Scholars Writing Competition organised by Harvard Journal of International Law and Yale Journal of International Law in 2020, on the paper China, a Disqualified Influencer of International Legal Order
• Second Prize of the Fourth Thesis Competition organised by Beijing Arbitration Commission
• First Prize for the 13th Speaking Contest of National English Contest

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS。

Bar admission: People’s Republic of China (since 2014)

Language: English (fluent); French (fluent); Chinese (native)

DOCTORAL RESEARCH SUPERVISOR

Zhu Na, Administrative Readability and Legal Translation under the Mongol Empire from 1260 to 1350 (2024-)

Chen Shumin, Modern Chinese Women in International Law: Gender Equality and State Sovereignty (2025-)

Cao Ruixin, Between Confrontation and Cooperation: Return of Cultural Property, Colonialism and International Law (2025-)

Zhu Danning, Chinese-US Section 337 Trademark Investigations Involving Chinese Enterprises (co-supervise, 2025-)