List of publications and academic talks:
Peer-reviewed articles
“The Dilemmas of Self-Assertion: Chinese Political Constitutionalism in a Globalized World,” in: Modern China, Vol. 48, Issue 3, 2022, pp. 498-534.
“Carl Schmitt and the evolution of Chinese constitutional theory: Conceptual transfer and the unexpected paths of legal globalisation,” in: Global Constitutionalism, Vol. 9, Issue 1, 2020, pp. 117-154.
“Die chinesische Völkerrechtslehre und ihr postkoloniales Erbe: 1979-1993” [The Chinese international law discipline and its postcolonial legacy: 1979-1993], in: Zeitschrift für chinesisches Recht, No. 3, 2018, pp. 179-221.
Review essays
“Conceptual realism and imperial nostalgia in Chinese legal historiography,” in: International Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 19, Issue 1, 2021, pp. 328-342.
Other publications
“Von Carl Schmitt über Dugin bis Trump: Die neue Rechte in China” [From Carl Schmitt to Dugin and Trump: The new right in China], in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, 10/2024, pp. 101-110.
“The Counter-Enlightenment Strikes Back: Constitutional Anti-Globalism and the Lexicon of Particularity in China,” in: Verfassungsblog, 29 July 2020.
“Carl Schmitt, Chinese Neo-Conservatism, and the Dark Sides of Constitutional Borrowing,” in: European Chinese Law Research Hub, 25 May 2020.
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).