Workshop report: Decoding China’s Foreign-Related Rule of Law

Held on November 21-22, 2025 at NYU School of Law.

Chinese Communist Party (CCP or Party) General Secretary Xi Jinping first mentioned FRROL in an internal Party meeting in 2019 in the context of discussing law’s role in economic development. Over the past five years alone, Chinese scholars have produced more than 2,000 articles on various aspects of FRROL, yet English-language treatment remains sparse and fragmented. To assess how this agenda is taking shape across legal domains, the U.S.–Asia Law Institute (USALI) at NYU School of Law and NYU Shanghai Professor Marie Adele Carrai convened the “Decoding China’s Foreign-Related Rule of Law” workshop on November 21–22, 2025. The gathering followed an initial workshop on FRROL at NYU Shanghai in April 2025. Read the detailed workshop report here.