Weixia Gu

China’s growing importance in global commerce is focusing increased attention on how it resolves civil and commercial disputes. As China promotes its Belt and Road Initiative, it also is promoting its domestic courts, arbitration institutions, and mediation services to resolve disputes with foreign parties. Hong Kong University Law Professor Weixia Gu will share insights from her new book Dispute Resolution in China: Litigation, Arbitration, Mediation and Their Interactions about the complex mix of economic, political, and social contextual factors that are propelling litigation, mediation, and arbitration in China along very different development tracks from each other.