Prof. Ying Xia
Assistant Professor
Biography
Ying Xia received her S.J.D. from Harvard Law School. Her doctoral thesis examines the socio-legal implications of Chinese investment in African countries. During her study at Harvard, Ying was also awarded the Yong K. Kim ’95 Memorial Prize for her work on the connections between China’s environmental campaign and the international trade in waste. She also received an LL.M. in international law and an LL.B. from Peking University. Ying’s research interest includes environmental law, international law, and law and public policy, with a focus on experience from developing countries.
Publications
“An Unlikely Duet: Public-Private Interaction in China’s Environmental Public Interest Litigation,” Transnational Environmental Law (2023, forthcoming) (with Yueduan Wang)
“Environmental Advocacy in a Globalizing China: NGOs’ Engagement with the Green Belt and Road Initiative” Journal of Contemporary Asia (2023, forthcoming)
“Quarantined Judicial Expansion: The Environmental Legal Entrepreneurship of Chinese Courts, Procuratorates, and NGOs,” Law & Policy (2023) (with Yueduan Wang)
“State-Sponsored Activism: How China’s Law Reforms Impact NGOs’ Legal Practice, ” Law & Social Inquiry (2023) (with Yueduan Wang)
“Judicializing Environmental Politics? China’s Prosecutor-Led Public Interest Litigation Against Government,” The China Quarterly (2022) (with Yueduan Wang)
“The Janus Face of Stateness: China’s Development-Oriented Equity Investments in Africa,” World Development 162 (2022) (with Muyang Chen)
“China’s Environmental Campaign: How China’s War on Pollution Is Transforming the International Trade in Waste,” N.Y.U. Journal of International Law & Politics 51 (2018)
“What kinds of Chinese ‘geese’are flying to Africa? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms,” Journal of African Economies 27 (2018) (with Deborah Brautigam and Xiaoyang Tang)