Recorded October 21, 2020
One of China’s leading scholars writing about international law from a Chinese perspective, Professor Cai Congyan, will talk about the ways in which an increasingly wealthy and powerful China has evolved from “selective adaptation” of existing international legal norms to “norm entrepreneurship.” Even as China defends its record of compliance with existing international rules, it uses both direct (promoting its own broad principles) and indirect (legislating in new areas such as cyberspace to set benchmarks for state practice) methods to introduce its legal and governance norms into the international legal regime.