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Prof. Ying Zhu 朱穎教授

Assistant Professor

Director of the Master of Laws (LLM) Programme

LL.B. (China University of Political Science and Law)
LL.M. (Yale University), J.S.D. (Yale University)
New York State Bar

Biography

Ying Zhu’s research focuses on reforming international economic law to promote sustainable development, especially climate transition. Her academic interests include international investment law, international trade law and environmental law. She has published articles in Harvard International Law Journal, New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, Columbia Journal of Environmental law, and Review of European Comparative & International Environmental Law. She has served as a member of the Chinese delegation to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group III and is a member of the Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement Academic Forum on ISDS. Additionally, she has served as Senior Assistant to the President of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Zhu holds LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees from Yale Law School, and a LL.B. degree from China University of Political Science and Law. She received the Howard M. Holtzmann Fund in International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution and the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund at Yale Law School. Her doctoral dissertation “Too Much of Two Good Things: Reconciling the Tension between Investment Protection and Environmental Protection in International Law” won the William T. Ketcham Jr. Prize of the Yale Law School (awarded annually to the best student paper in the field of private international law).

 

Research Area

  • International Investment Law
  • International Trade Law
  • Environmental Law

 


Room 7.13, Cheng Yu Tung Tower


Room 7.13, Cheng Yu Tung Tower

Research Area

  • International Investment Law
  • International Trade Law
  • Environmental Law

 

Selected Publications

Teaching

  1. “Arbitrating Climate Transition: Coal Phase-Out and International Investment Law,” 52.3 Ecology Law Quarterly (forthcoming, 2026);
  2. “International Commercial Arbitration,” in Douglas Kysar and Ernest Lim (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Private Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming);
  3. “State Responsibility for Climate Inaction in International Investment Law,” 44.2 Stanford Environmental Law Journal 104-166 (2025);
  4. “A Quasi-Normative Conflict: Resolving the Tension between Investment Treaties and Climate Action,” 33.2 Review of European Comparative & International Environmental Law 183-193 (2024);
  5. “A Bottom-Up Dilemma: International Investment Law and Environmental Governance,” 48.1 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 100-135 (2022);
  6. “Do Clarified Indirect Expropriation Clauses in International Investment Treaties Preserve Environmental Regulatory Space?,” 60.2 Harvard International Law Journal 377-416 (2019);
  7. “Environmental Discrimination in International Investment Law,” 51 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 385-433 (2019);
  8. “Fair and Equitable Treatment of Foreign Investors in an Era of Sustainable Development,” 58.2 Natural Resources Journal 319-363 (2018);
  9. “Corporate Social Responsibility and International Investment Law: Tension and Reconciliation,” 2017/1 Nordic Journal of Commercial Law 90-119 (2017);
  10. “Justification under Article XX(g) of GATT 1994: An Analysis of China-Raw Materials Case, ” 2012/6 Journal of International Trade (国际贸易问题) (in Chinese) 167-76 (2012)

LLAW3153 China Investment Law

LLAW6186 China Trade Law