Assistant Professor Yueming Yan

Overview

Dr Yueming Yan is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK Law). She has been researching and teaching in areas of international trade law, international investment arbitration and policy, dispute resolution, sustainable development, China’s laws, comparative law, and empirical legal studies.

Yueming has published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of International Economic Law, Journal of International Dispute Settlement, Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy, and the Asia Pacific Law Review. Her works also appear or will appear in the Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting, Kluwer Arbitration Blog, and edited collections published by Edward Elgar, Routledge, and Springer. Her PhD dissertation – Improving international investment law’s treatment of (anti-) corruption: Towards a more balanced approach – was awarded the 2022 Award on International Investment Arbitration Law in memory of Piero Bernardini.

Currently, Yueming is the Co-Chair of the Asia-Pacific Interest Group of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and serves as a peer-reviewer for the Journal of International Economic Law. She has engaged in many training programs for government officials from around the world and instructed sessions on managing international investment treaty commitments and exploring innovative mechanisms for multi-party dispute resolution.

Before joining CUHK Law, Yueming was a Visiting Assistant Professor and a Global PhD Fellow at Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law and Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy. She obtained her PhD degree from McGill University Faculty of Law.