Chinese Investment Treaties

Professor Wenhua Shan is the Dean and Tengfei Professor of International Law at the School of Law of Xian Jiaotong University, PR China. He is also Professor of International Law at Oxford Brookes University, UK. As a PhD from the University of Cambridge and and a practising Chinese lawyer (barrister and solicitor), Professor Shan has written extensively on international investment law and arbitration, and has advised Chinese and foreign governments on investment treaty negotiations and arbitration cases. His recent publications include Chinese Investment Treaties: Policies and Practice (co-authored with Ms Norah Gallagher, OUP 2009), The Legal Framework of EU-China Investment Relations: A Critical Appraisal (Hart Publishing 2005) and Redefining Sovereignty in International Economic Law (Hart Publishing 2008). He was recently awarded the title of Special Government Allowance Expert by the State Council of PR China.Norah Gallagher is Director of the Director of the Investment Treaty Forum, BIICL. She is a specialist in international arbitration and public international law with Herbert Smith, and a lecturer on the International Trade and Investment Dispute Settlement course at Queen Mary University, London. Before joining Herbert Smith, she was a Research Fellow of the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, where she worked for several years on international dispute resolution. She has acted in arbitrations under ICC, ICSID and LCIA, advised states and corporations on public international law issues, and has been involved with cases before the International Court of Justice.

The book is well written and structured, with useful introductions and conclusions in most chapters. [It] achieves its stated aims of providing a comprehensive commentary on Chinese investment treaties there is no doubt that this will prove to be a useful reference text for advisers, students and scholars alike.

• Appendix I LIST OF SIGNED CHINESE BITS (AS OF JULY 2008)