Description: This handbook provides a comprehensive road map to China's engagement with international law and an upgraded bridge between Chinese and Western approaches in times of turmoil. Written by a leading group of Chinese and Western specialists, it examines how China is assimilating into, and putting its stamp on, the global legal order. It offers updated analyses of China's relationship with international institutions, human rights law, international trade law, the law of the sea, the laws of peace and war, international criminal law, global health law, international investment law, international environmental law, climate change, international terrorism law, outer-space law, intellectual property law, cyber-space warfare, international financial law, international dispute settlement, territorial disputes, the Belt and Road Initiative, the Community of Shared Future for Mankind, China's constitutional law, the judicial application of international law, state immunity, the international rule of law, China's treaty practices and the extraterritorial application of Chinese laws.
Brief description: Ignacio de la Rasilla holds the Han Depei Chair and is a One Thousand Talents Plan Professor at the Wuhan University Institute of International Law and Wuhan Academy of International Law and Global Governance in China. He is the author or editor of six books including International Law and History, Modern Interfaces (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Review Quotes: 'General de Gaulle once said: 'We may go to the moon, but that is not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.' As an international legal scholar and senior diplomat who has been engaged in the teaching and study of international law as well as in diplomatic practice for over forty years, I am convinced that The Cambridge Handbook of China and International Law will certainly be conducive to shortening the distance between China and the rest of the world.' Huang Huikang, member of the UN International Law Commission and Chairman of the Advisory Committee on International Law of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China; former Ambassador to Malaysia; Distinguished Professor, Wuhan University