Biographical note: Yifeng Chen is an associate professor at the Peking University Law School and deputy director of the Peking University Institute of International Law. Before joining the Peking University, He was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki from 2010-2013 and continues to serve as a docent in international law at the University of Helsinki. He was a visiting scholar to the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge, Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, and others. His fields of interest include history and theory of international law, international organizations, global governance, and international and comparative labour law.

Ⅰ Employment

• -Associate Professor, Peking University Law School (08/2016 - )
• -Assistant Professor, Peking University Law School (12/2013 - 07/2016)
• -Post-doctoral Researcher, Helsinki University Faculty of Law, Finland (02/2011 - 12/2013)

Ⅱ Legal Education

• -LL.D., Peking University Law School (09/2006 - 07/2010)
• -LL.M., Peking University Law School (09/2004 – 07/2006)
• -LL.B., Nanjing Normal University (09/2000 – 07/2004)

Ⅲ Administrative Experience & Position of Trust

• -Deputy Director, Peking University Institute of International Law (06/2021 - , 01/2014-05/2021 Assistant director)
• -Member of the Executive Council, Asian Society of International Law (08/2019 - )
• -Executive Board member, Chinese Society of International Law (05/2023 - , board member 2018-2023)
• -Board member, Chinese Society of Social Law (11/2015 - )
• -Member, Advisory Committee, International Academy of the Red Cross & Red Crescent, Red Cross Society of China (10/2019 - )
• -Member of the International Advisory Board, Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” (SCRIPTS), Free University of Berlin (02/2020 - )

Ⅳ Research Projects

• -Project Leader, National Social Sciences Fund of China, “Global Governance and the Remaking of the Law of the International Organizations” (2022-2025)
• -Project Leader, National Social Sciences Fund of China, “Asian Legal Civilization” (2021-2024)
• -Project Leader, National Social Sciences Fund of China, “Improving China’s Rule of Law on Labour Governance in Light of Globalization and the ILO Labour Legislation” (2015-2021)
• -Senior Researcher, Academy of Finland Project “ILO Core Labour Standards Implementation in China: Legal Architecture and Cultural Logic” (2012-2015)

Ⅴ List of Publications (selected)

A. Books

• 1.Chen Yifeng, Transnational Labour Law: Protecting Labour under the Globalization Conditions (跨国劳动法：全球化条件下的劳工保护), Beijing: Peking University Press, 2023
• 2.Chen Yifeng, Principle of Non-intervention in Contemporary International Law (论当代国际法上的不干涉原则), Beijing: Peking University Press, 2013.

B. Edited Volumes

• 1.Ulla Liukkunen & Chen Yifeng (eds.), Implementation of Fundamental Labour Rights in China: Legal Architecture and Cultural Logic, Springer, 2016
• 2.Ulla Liukkunen & Chen Yifeng (eds.), China and ILO Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations), Kluwer, 2014

C. Articles/ book chapters

• 1.“Beyond Rule: the Argumentative Turn of International Law” (超越规则：国际法的论辩主义转向), Journal of Peking University (Philosophy & Social Sciences), 2023, Issue 1, pp. 162-174
• 2.“On the Indeterminacy of International Law and its Impact on International Rule of Law” (论国际法的不确定性及其对国际法治的影响), Peking University Law Review, Vol. 21, 2022, pp. 1102-1119
• 3.“To Domesticate International: The Ideology of Foreign Relations Law”, Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 9, 2021, pp. 289-303
• 4.“On Relating Social Sciences to International Law: Three Perspectives”, 18 Chicago Journal of International Law, Vol. 18, 2021, pp.37-48
• 5.“Health for All or Health Securitization? Critical Reflections on the Global Health Law” (健康主义抑或安全主义?反思全球卫生法的理论基础), Social Sciences Abroad, 2021, Issue 4, pp. 79-92
• 6.“International Law and International Relations: An Incommensurable Interdisciplinary Dialogue?” (国际关系与国际法：不可通约的跨学科对话？), China Law Review, 2021, Issue 3, pp. 116-126
• 7.“Between Codification and Legislation: A Role for the International Law Commission as an Autonomous Law-maker”, in United Nations (ed.), Seventy Years of the International Law Commission: Drawing a Balance for the Future, Leiden: Brill, 2020, pp-233-264
• 8.“Proliferation of Transnational Labour Standards: The Role of the ILO”, in Tarja Halonen & Ulla Liukkunen (eds.), International Labour Organization and Global Social Governance, Springer, 2020, pp. 97-121
• 9.“Labour, Trade and Hegemony: the Historical Origin of ILO Fundamental Labour Rights” (劳工、贸易与霸权——国际劳工组织基本劳工权利的缘起与争议), Peking University Law Review, Vol. 19, 2020, pp. 235-252
• 10.“Enclave Governance and Transnational Labour Law: A Case Study of Chinese Workers on Strike in Africa” (co-author with Ulla Liukkunen), 88 Nordic Journal of International Law (2019), pp. 558-586
• 11.“The Making of Global Public Authorities: the Role of IFIs in Setting International Labour Standards”, AIIB Yearbook of International Law, Volume 1, 2018, pp. 109-128
• 12.“World Bank and Transnational Labour Protection: Controversies, Problems and Progres” (世界银行与跨国劳工保护：进展、问题与争议), in Huang Yao, Chen Wenxue and Li Zan (eds.), Flying Birds over Weiming Lake: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Rao Geping at his Fortieth Year of Teaching, Beijng: Peking University Press, 2018, pp. 325-353
• 13.“Bandung, China and the Making of World Order in East Asia”, in L. Eslava, V. Nesiah & M. Fakhri (eds.), Bandung, Global History and International Law: Critical Pasts and Pending Futures, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 177-195
• 14.“International Law as Mere Obligations: The Supremacy of International Law and a Chinese Conception”, Peking University Law Journal (English), Vol. 5, Issue 2, 2017, pp. 285-308
• 15.“Fundamental Labour Rights in China – A New Approach to Implementation” (co-author with Ulla Liukkunen), in Ulla Liukkunen & Chen Yifeng (eds.), Implementation of Fundamental Labour Rights in China: Legal Architecture and Cultural Logic, Springer, 2016, pp. 1-18
• 16.“ILO, Extraterritoriality and Labour Protection in Republican Shanghai”, in Ulla Liukkunen & Chen Yifeng (eds.), Implementation of Fundamental Labour Rights in China: Legal Architecture and Cultural Logic, Springer, 2016, pp. 83-114
• 17.“International Organizations and Strategies of Self-Legitimization: The Example of World Bank’s Anti-Corruption Mechanism”，13 Manchester Journal of International Economic Law (2016), Issue 3, pp. 314-333
• 18.“Global Managerialism at the World Bank: A Critical Assessment of the World Bank’s Environmental and Social Framework” (世界银行与全球管理主义的兴起), Journal of Peking University (Philosophy & Social Sciences), 2016, Issue 6, pp. 68-81
• 19.“The Emergence of Transnational Labour Law: Concept and Prospect” (跨国劳动法的兴起：概念、方法与展望), Peking University Law Journal, 2016, Issue 5, pp. 1381-1399
• 20.“The World Bank Anti-corruption Sanctions Mechanism and Global Governance” (世界银行反腐败制裁机制与全球治理)，Chinese Review of International Law, 2015, Issue 6, pp. 77-92
• 21.“Attribution, Causation and Responsibility of International Organizations”, in Dan Sarooshi (ed.), Remedies and Responsibility for the Actions of International Organizations, Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2014, pp. 33-111
• 22.“International Labour Organisation and Labour Governance in China 1919-1949”, in Ulla Liukkunen & Chen Yifeng (eds.), China and ILO Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, Kluwer, 2014, pp. 19-54
• 23.“The Customary Nature of the Principle of Non-intervention: A Methodological Note”, Renmin Chinese Law Review: Selected Papers of the Jurist, Volume 2, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014, pp. 319-341
• 24.“The International Organization Law Studies in the Rise of Global Governance: the Evolving Paradigm and Recent Theories” (全球治理视野下的国际组织与国际法研究), Foreign Affairs Review, 2013, Issue 5, pp. 144-156
• 25.“Prohibition of Non-Coercive Intervention in International Law; A Chinese Perspective” (论国际法上对非强迫性干涉之禁止：理论思考和中国实践), in Li Lin & Xie Zengyi (eds.), Rule of Law in China and Finland: Comparative Studies of the Development, History and Model, Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2013, pp. 175-190
• 26.“Implementation of the UN Security Council Resolutions in China” (安理会决议在中国的执行机制初探), Chinese Yearbook of International Law, 2012, pp. 333-354
• 27.“The Customary Nature of the Principle of Non-intervention: A Methodological Note” (不干涉原则作为习惯国际法之证明方法), Jurists Review, 2012, Issue 5, pp. 153-163
• 28.“Principle of Non-Intervention in the Post-Cold War Era: Critical Reflections on Recent Western Interventionist Theories” (后冷战时代的不干涉内政原则——西方新干涉主义理论及其批判), Chinese Yearbook of International Law, 2011, pp. 89-120
• 29.“The Treaty-Making Power in China: Constitutionalization, Progress and Problems”, Asian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 15, 2011, pp. 43-69
• 30.“Not Prohibited by International Law are Authorized? A Critical Reflection on the Lotus Principle under Contemporary International Law” (国际法不禁止的就是允许的吗？——荷花号原则的当代国际法思考), Global Law Review, 2011, pp. 132-141
• 31.Structural Limitations and Possible Future of the Work of the International Law Commission, Chinese Journal of International Law, Vol. 9, 2010, pp. 473-484
• 32.Principle of Non-intervention in Contemporary International Law (试论当代国际法上不干涉内政原则), Chinese Yearbook of International Law, 2008, pp. 176-206

D. Essay, Book Review and Translation Work

• 1.Essay: “Knowledge Power in Global Governance and its Legal Regulations” (全球治理中的知识权力及其法律规制), Chinese Social Sciences Today, 17 October 2022
• 2.Essay: “It’s Time to Engage Interdisciplinary Studies of International Law”(开展国际法跨学科研究正当其时), Chinese Social Sciences Today, 19 April 2022
• 3.Essay: “Global Governance as Administration?”, 3 Helsinki Review of Global Governance (2012), pp. 4-7
• 4.Book Review: “Words Are Politics: A Review of Samantha Power's A Problem from Hell”, PKU International and Comparative Law Review (2011), pp. 143-150
• 5.Book Review: “Theoretical Reconstruction of Contemporary International Lawmaking: A Review on Shinya Murase’s International Lawmaking, Sources of Law in International Legal Theory” (国际造法理论的理论再造——评村濑信也《国际立法——国际法的发源论》), Chinese Review of International Law, 2014, Volume 1, pp. 122-128
• 6.Chinese Translation: Martti Koskenniemi, ‘What is International Law For?’, in Malcolm D. Evans (ed.), International Law, 3^rd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 32-57. “国际法的目的是什么?”, PKU International and Comparative Law Review, Vol. 11, 2014, pp. 71-101