List of publications and academic talks:

Peer-reviewed articles

Review essays

Other publications

Lectures and conference papers

  • "China in the international legal order: From the Treaty of Nanjing to the War in Ukraine," lecture at the Summer Academy for Global China, Durham Law School, 17 July 2024.

  • “Kollektive Sicherheit und friedlicher Wandel: Der chinesisch-japanische Konflikt (1931-1945) und seine Implikationen für das heutige Völkerrecht” [Collective security and peaceful change: The Sino-Japanese conflict (1931-1945) and its implications for contemporary international law], lecture at the University of Halle, 24 April 2024.

  • “Zwischen Regionalismus und Imperialismus: Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte der Monroe-Doktrin im modernen Ostasien” [Between regionalism and imperialism: On the reception of the Monroe Doctrine in modern East Asia], lecture at the Confucius Institute Leipzig, 23 April 2024.

  • “A constitution for humankind? Chinese internationalism and the League of Nations, 1917-1931,” European China Law Studies Association Annual Conference, 20 to 22 September 2023, Helsinki.

  • “From Geneva with expertise: The League of Nations’ Programme of Cooperation with Republican China (1928-1934),” 13 July 2023, lecture at the University of Göttingen.

  • “China and the League of Nations: A historical reconsideration,” Polish-German Workshop on Chinese Law, 10 to 13 July 2023, Cologne.

  • “Embracing Eurasia? Geopolitical debates in contemporary Chinese neoconservatism,” workshop “10 years BRI—Learning Processes, Policy Adaptations and Managing Complexity,” 7 July 2023, Bonn.

  • “Imperial competition, colonial knowledge networks, and the quest for ‘universal legal history’: Josef Kohler and his Asian students,” workshop “Actors, Lives and Networks – Biographies in the Global Circulation of Knowledge,” 19 April 2023, QMU London.

  • Gentle civilizers? Aufstieg und Fall der chinesischen Völkerrechtswissenschaft, 1900-1960” [Gentle civilizers? The rise and fall of the Chinese discipline of international law, 1900-1960], 22 March 2023, lecture at the HSU Hamburg.

  • “After (in)equality: Liberal conditionality, informal empire, and the debate about China’s ‘new treaties,’ 1915-1946,” online symposium “Legal orders under pressure: Non-Western experiences of legal transformations in the 19th and early 20th centuries,” Max-Planck-Institute for Legal History and Theory, 7 to 9 December 2022, Frankfurt a.M./Vienna.

  • “State, market, and legal form: The rise of Chinese ordo-legalism,” European China Law Studies Association annual conference, 21 to 23 September 2022, Copenhagen.

  • “The ‘China question’: Historical revisionism and narratives of crisis in international legal discourse,” workshop “China and International Law,” 1 August 2022, Cologne.

  • “Mapping the field of global legal history in contemporary China: Conceptual binaries and ideological controversies,” Workshop “Chinese Positions on Constitutional and International Legal History,” 23 June 2022, lecture at FAU Erlangen.

  • “Lawyering for a half-sovereign state: A sociology of international legal knowledge in republican China,” European China Law Studies Association annual conference, 24 to 26 September 2021, Warsaw.

  • “When National Revanchism meets Disciplinary Self-Doubt: China’s Rise and the Politics of Global Legal History,” online symposium “China and Global History,” 1 to 3 September 2021, Vienna.

  • “The Lexicon of Particularity in Contemporary China – From Global Constitutionalism to Constitutional Anti-Globalism…and Back?”, online webinar organized by “Global Constitutionalism” (Cambridge University Press), 5 June 2020.

  • “Chinese Political Constitutionalism and the Antinomies of Legal Globalisation,” European China Law Studies Association annual conference, 26 to 28 July 2019, Durham (UK).