Starting in 2018 I began to investigate how America’s disengagement as a global leader and China’s rise might impact international law and the international order. The following work begins to address this issue. An interview about this research is available here.

Chinese and Western Perspectives on the Rule of Law and their International Implications (with Ji Li) Published in Cambridge Handbook on China and International Law, Ignacio de la Rasilla and Cai Congyan eds. 2024. Chapter 5 p. 94-111.

Reframing International Law: The China Strategy? Paper written for a workshop and book project edited by Ji Li and Gregory Shaffer.  The paper examines what it would take for China to change international law as the West knows it, and asks whether China is up to the task and actually trying to shift international law. An interview about this paper is available here.

China, International Law and International Development Written for another workshop, this paper queries whether China is offering a development strategy long requested by developing countries in UNCTAD, the NIEO and the GATT/WTO. (Available upon request).

Global Governance Across Time: Institutional Sequences, International Regime Complexes and the Politics of Global Governance  (with Stephen C. Nelson). World Politics 76(2): 379-416. 2024 (with Stephen C. Nelson) This review essay is framed around the question of how a rising China’s global governance engagement might transform multilateral politics. Given that institutions are sticky and path-dependent, we argue that investigating sequencing politics is the way to think about this question.

The Future of Embedded International Law: Democratic and Authoritarian Trajectories Chicago Journal of International Law 23(1), Article 2, 2022.

From Colonial to Multilateral International Law: A Global Capitalism and Law Analysis, International Journal of Constitutional Law (I•Con) 19 (3) 2021. This article reviews the legal operating system of global capitalism from the colonial to the multilateral era so as to better understand how America’s declining influence and China’s rising influence might influence the international legal operating system of global economic law.

“Trump’s tariffs aren’t the biggest trade problem. Will China step up to protect the WTO? The Monkey Cage, Washington Post, June 18, 2018.