Dispute Resolution in China
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
Thursday, September 16, 2021 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM (Hong Kong Time) Register for this event
A Conversation with Professor Weixia Gu moderated by NYU Professor of Law Franco Ferrari
China’s growing importance in global commerce is focusing increased attention on how it resolves civil and commercial disputes. As China promotes its Belt and Road Initiative, it also is promoting its domestic courts, arbitration institutions, and mediation services to resolve disputes with foreign parties. Hong Kong University Law Professor Weixia Gu will share insights from her new book Dispute Resolution in China: Litigation, Arbitration, Mediation and Their Interactions about the complex mix of economic, political, and social contextual factors that are propelling litigation, mediation, and arbitration in China along very different development tracks from each other.
About the speaker
Dr. Weixia Gu is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on arbitration, dispute resolution, private international law, and cross-border legal issues. She has published monographs, edited books, and authored dozens of articles in leading international law journals including the American Journal of Comparative Law, Harvard International Law Journal, Chicago Journal of International Law, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Cornell International Law Journal, Washington International Law Journal, and Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business. Her book Dispute Resolution in China: Litigation, Arbitration, Mediation and Their Interactions (Routledge, 2021) has been reviewed by leading international and Asian law journals. Professor Gu is a recipient of HKU’s Outstanding Young Researcher Award and its Outstanding Teaching Award in Law. She has twice been awarded the Faculty of Law’s Research Output Prize. She has also three times been awarded a top prize by the China Society of Private International Law for her scholarship.
Read Dr. Weixia Gu’s USALI Perspectives essay on this same topic here.
About the moderator
Franco Ferrari is professor of law at New York University School of Law and director of the Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law.