U.S. Asia Law Institute Talk

Extraterritoriality in China's Overseas Special Economic Zones

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Eastern Time

Furman Hall 910 and Zoom

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About the event

Like other major powers, China projects many kinds of influence abroad. Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has recently started highlighting the importance of promoting “foreign-related rule of law,” a new category of law that knits together Chinese and international law to govern China’s offshore activities. One place to look for foreign-related rule of law in action is in Chinese-invested overseas special economic zones, which some foreign scholars view as extraterritorial zones under Chinese power and law. NYU Shanghai Professor Maria Adele Carrai will discuss her research of selected Chinese overseas economic zones and new forms of Chinese extraterritoriality.

About the speaker

Maria Adele Carrai

Maria Adele Carrai is assistant professor of Global China Studies at NYU Shanghai. Her research explores the history of international law in East Asia and investigates how China’s rise as a global power is shaping norms and redefining the international distribution of power. She co-leads the research initiative “Mapping Global China,” and is the author of Sovereignty in China. A Genealogy of a Concept since 1840 (CUP 2019) and co-editor of The China Questions 2 - Critical Insights into US-China Relations (HUP 2022). Before joining NYU Shanghai, she received a three-year Marie-Curie fellowship at KU Leuven. She has been a fellow at the Italian Academy of Columbia University, Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program, the Max Weber Program of the European University Institute of Florence, and NYU School of Law.

About the moderator

Kevin Davis

Kevin Davis is the Beller Family Professor of Business Law at NYU School of Law. His research and teaching concern the relationship between law and economic development, with particular emphasis on anti-corruption law, commercial law, and measurement of the performance of legal systems. His publications include more than 50 articles or essays, four edited volumes, and a monograph, Between Impunity and Imperialism: The Regulation of Transnational Bribery (OUP 2019). He has held visiting appointments at Cambridge University’s Clare Hall, Fundação Getulio Vargas School of Law in São Paulo, the University of Southern California, the University of Toronto, and the University of the West Indies in Barbados, and has lectured at many other institutions around the world.