An article by Professor Li Chen reflecting on the history and historiography of the modern system/regime of international law and how it can be reexamined and reimagined in the rapidly changing global context of international relations and politics. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/KicbPZN01p...

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First draft completed! The writing took six months, but the substantive research took about 7 years, spanning multiple article and essay projects (none of which will supply actual text for this book, given Harvard UP’s publishing preferences). Should be out at some point in late 2026.

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It seems like, well, an opportune time to push this paper again. We find qualitative similarities in how the Chinese and American governments produce economic statistics, but even we couldn’t anticipate how quickly those similarities would strengthen…

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New paper on “Legal Internalism” posted. Co-authored with Shyam Balganesh. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Just sent the full draft of a new book (on “Legality in China” or “the authoritarian functions of law”) to my editor for peer review and subsequent processing—hopefully in time for the book to come out in a little over a year.

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