Shen Wei (Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Law)

This webinar will investigate China’s bilateral investment treaties (BITs) regime through various approaches, including textual analysis, case study, comparative study and empirical study. The general consensus is that the evolution of China’s BIT regime has its underlying logic, which follows an investment liberalization trend and fits China’s changing role from a key capital-importing state to a major capital-exporting state. A similar trend is evident in Chinese BIT-making and BIT policy. In this talk, Professor Shen Wei investigates these theoretical assumptions and looks into some of the loopholes in Chinese BITs.