!!!Lei Chen - Biography
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Professor Lei Chen (PhD) is Chair in International Arbitration and Chinese Law  and Deputy Dean at Durham Law School, where he also directs the Durham International Dispute Resolution Institute. He is an Ordinary Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Titular Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, and a Fellow of the European Law Institute.\\
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He holds honorary and adjunct professorships at the University of Galway (Ireland), Renmin University of China, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shandong University, and the City University of Hong Kong, and is a regular visiting professor at the National University of Singapore, and the University of Hong Kong. He serves on the Social and Behavioral Sciences Sub-panel of the Hong Kong University Grants Committee and previously sat on the 2020 RAE Law Panel. He has been recognised by Durham University through the Grade 10 Merit Award (2023) for outstanding contribution to research and institutional development.\\
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His research focuses on international arbitration and comparative private and commercial law. His work has appeared in leading journals such as Legal Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, Legal History Review, European Review of Private Law, Asia Pacific Law Review, and the Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business. His monographs include Property Law in China (Cambridge University Press), Contract Law in China (Kluwer), and Chinese Condominium Law (Intersentia). His research explores how legal doctrines, institutions, and dispute resolution mechanisms operate within hybrid legal environments and interact with international legal norms and market systems. At its core, his work examines the relationship between law, commerce, culture and authority, and the ways in which transnational commercial practices shape domestic legal orders and drive legal reform, codification and adjudication across jurisdictions. Combining comparative doctrinal analysis with socio-legal, and historical approaches, he addresses questions of legal pluralism, state capacity, economic governance, and the codification and interpretation of private law.\\
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Before joining Durham, Professor Chen worked at the City University of Hong Kong Law School with tenure. He is a member of the International Commercial Expert Committee of the Supreme People’s Court of China. He is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators and was called to the Bar of England and Wales (Inner Temple). He serves on the panels of leading arbitration institutions around the globe.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit lchen7364}][{ALLOW upload lchen7364}][{ALLOW comment All}]