George G. Chen is a Research Associate at the Mercator Institute for China Studies. He is an expert on China’s judicial system and legal policies, and is the author of Copyright and International Negotiations: An Engine of Free Expression in China?, a forthcoming monograph published by Cambridge University Press.

He has advised the Chinese and European governments on a variety of legal projects within the framework of the Sino-E.U.-Dialogue on the State of Rule of Law.

Chen worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL), and the Wolfson College of the University of Cambridge. He was a Visiting Academic of the PCMLP based at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies of the University of Oxford and a research fellow and Konrad Adenauer scholar at the University of Göttingen.

Chen has a PhD in law (Göttingen), mag.iur (Göttingen), master of law (Nanjing), and B.A. (Fudan).

Last Updated: May 16, 2017

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