Global Affiliates

Prof. Huiping Chen is an affiliate of the International Water Law Academy (IWLA) of Wuhan University. She is Professor of International Law at the School of Law of Xiamen University.

She teaches Public International Law, International Investment Law, International Human Rights Law at Xiamen University. Her research fields focus on international water law, international investment law and general international law.

Her publications include:

The role of amicus curiae in implementing the human right to water in the context of international investment law, in Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law (RECIEL), Volume XX (X) 2020.

The Belt & Road Initiative and the New Landscape of China's ISDS Policy and Practice, in: Congyan Cai & Huiping Chen (eds), The BRICS in the New International Legal Order on Investment: Reformer or Disruptors, Brill, 2020

China's Innovative ISDS Mechanisms and Their Implications, AJIL Unbound (American Journal of International Law Unbound), Vol. 112, 2018

The human right to water and foreign investment: friends or foes?, Water International, vol. 40, no. 2, March, 2015

Exploring China's transboundary water treaty practice through the prism of the UN Watercourses Convention, Water International, vol. 38, no. 2, 2013 (co-author with Alistair Rieu-Clarke & Patricia Wouters)

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Prof. Huiping Chen is a Professor of International Law at Xiamen University School of Law which she joined in 1993, and Director of International Economic Law Institute. She is a Secretary-General of the Administrative Council of Xiamen Academy of International Law and Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Society of International Economic Law. She is in the Review Board of the Journal of Transnational Corporations which is an official journal of the United Nations, managed by UNCTAD. She was a Visiting Scholar at Leiden University (2000-2001), Fulbright Researcher at Georgetown University (2006-2007), Freeman Fellow at the University of Illinois (2012-2013) and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Herbert Smith Freehills China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre at the University of New South Wales Sydney. She was invited by UNCTAD to participate in the International Investment Agreement Mapping Project as an expert and university leader from 2012 to 2016. She has extensively published in both Chinese and English. She received her Ph. D degree in international law from Xiamen University in 1999.