Select Publications
Books
2020, Chinese Contract Law and the 2020 Civil Code
,2018, An Introduction to Chinese Contract Law
,Book Chapters
2024, 'A Critical Assessment of South Korea's Digital Assets Regulatory Framework', in Hunn P (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Digital Assets and the Law, Oxford University Press, Oxford
,2024, 'AI in Judicial Decision-Making: Dehumanisation of Justice?', in Durante M; Pagallo U (ed.), Law and Digital Technologies, De Gruyter
,2024, 'Corporate Social Responsibility and Decent Work in China: the Influence of EU and International Norms', in Burnay M; Timoteo M; Li B (ed.), Internationalisation of EU Law and EU-China Relations, Routledge
,2024, 'A right to a human judge? Generative AI and Article 6 of the European Convention of Human Rights', in Zou M; Ebers M; Poncibo C; Calo R (ed.), Cambridge Handbook on Generative AI and the Law, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
,2024, 'Navigating China's Approach to Regulating Generative AI', in Cambridge Handbook on Generative AI and the Law
,2023, 'Revisiting the Ethics of Temporary Labour Migration Programmes: The Role of Exit in Migrant Work Relations', in Ryan B; Zahn R (ed.), Migrant Labour and the Reshaping of Employment Law, Hart, pp. 279 - 279, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/migrant-labour-and-the-reshaping-of-employment-law-9781509919147/
,2022, 'When AI meets Smart Contracts: Regulating Hyper-autonomous Contracting', in Ebers M; Poncibò C; Zou M (ed.), Contracting and Contract Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Hart, https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/contracting-and-contract-law-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence-9781509950683/
,2021, 'Penalty in the Contract of Employment: The Good, the Bad (Leavers) and the Ugly', in Punishment and Private Law, pp. 375 - 394
,2020, 'Virtual Justice in the Time of COVID-19', in Eidenmüller H; Enriques L; Helleringer G; van Zwieten K (ed.), COVID-19 and Business Law, Bloomsbury Publishing, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/covid19-and-business-law-9781509944736/
,2019, 'Innovation without Authorisation? The Regulatory Black Box of Cryptocurrencies in China', in Aggarwal N; Eidenmüller H; Enriques L; Payne J; van Zwieten K (ed.), Autonomous Systems and the Law, Nomos/ C H Beck
,2018, 'Regulating child labour in China: A historical perspective of internal child migration', in Protecting Migrant Children: In Search of Best Practice, pp. 219 - 235
,2018, 'Collective Bargaining and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions: A Game Changer in Governing Chinese Workplaces?', in Hendrickx F; De Stefano V (ed.), Game Changers in Labour Law: Shaping the Future of Work, Kluwer Law International, https://law-store.wolterskluwer.com/s/product/game-changers-in-labour-law-shaping-the-future-of-work/01t0f00000J3l66AAB
,2017, 'Occupational Safety and Health Laws in China: Towards an Integrated Framework?', in Addabbo T; Ales E; Curzi Y; Senatori I (ed.), Well-being at and through Work, G. Giappichelli Editore, pp. 99 - 120, https://www.giappichelli.it/well-being-at-and-through-work-9788892107403
,2017, 'Regulating collective labour disputes in China: A tale of two actors', in Mediation in Contemporary China Continuity and Change, Wildy, Simmonds and Hill, https://www.wildy.com/isbn/9780854902248/mediation-in-contemporary-china-continuity-and-change-hardback-wildy-simmonds-and-hill-publishing
,2017, 'Regulating the Fissured Workplace: The Notion of the Employer in Chinese Employment Law', in Nakakubo H; Araki T (ed.), The Notion of Employer in the Era of the Fissured Workplace, Kluwer Law International, https://law-store.wolterskluwer.com/s/product/notion-of-employer-in-the-era-of-fissured-workplace/01t0f00000J3aVPAAZ
,2017, 'Migrant precarity under China's new immigration law regime', in Studies in Critical Social Sciences, pp. 160 - 178, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004329706_009
,2016, 'Employer Demand for 'Skilled' Migrant Workers: Regulating Admission Under the United Kingdom's Tier 2 (General) Visa', in Temporary Labour Migration in the Global Era The Regulatory Challenges, Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 113 - 130, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/temporary-labour-migration-in-the-global-era-9781509906291/
,2016, 'Labour standards along the “One Belt One Road”', in Legal Dimensions of China's Belt and Road Initiative, Wolters Kluwer, pp. 357 - 392, https://www.pbookshop.com/legal-dimensions-of-china-s-belt-and-road-initiative-9789887741206.html
,2016, 'RATIONALITY AND SOCIETY', in Movements for Human Rights: Locally and Globally, pp. 62 - 71, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315511856-11
,2015, 'The Legal Construction of Precarious Migrant Work Relations: A Study of Australia’s 457-visa Scheme', in Pilati M; Sheikh H; Sperotti F; Tilly C (ed.), How Global Migration Changes the Workforce Diversity Equation, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 451 - 481, https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-4438-7438-0
,2015, 'Hyper-Dependence and Hyper-Precarity in Migrant Work Relations', in Labour And Social Rights. An Evolving Scenario Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference in Commemoration of Marco Biagi, G Giappichelli Editore, pp. 451 - 481, https://giappichelli-usa.com/labour-and-social-rights-an-evolving-scenario-e-pub-9788834859292
,2015, 'Rationality and society', in Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights, pp. 290 - 299, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315634227
,2014, 'The Evolution of Collective Labour Law with ‘Chinese Characteristics’? ‘Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones?’', in Blanpaint R; Liukkunen U; Chen Y (ed.), China and ILO Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, Kluwer Law International, https://law-store.wolterskluwer.com/s/product/china-ilo-fundamental-principles-and-rights-at-work/01t0f00000J3aNEAAZ
,2013, 'Multinational corporations and employment relations in the People's Republic of China: the case of Beijing Hyundai Motor Company', in 'Making Sense' of Human Resource Management in China, Routledge, pp. 181 - 201, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315875392-9
,2012, 'Exploring new frontiers in an internationalised classroom: Team-based learning and reflective journals as innovative learning strategies', in Cross-Cultural Teaching and Learning for Home and International Students: Internationalisation of Pedagogy and Curriculum in Higher Education, pp. 27 - 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203098035
,2011, 'Rethinking human rights in China: Towards a receptor framework', in Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region: Towards Institution Building, pp. 249 - 263, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203815724-24
,2011, 'Rethinking human rights in China: Towards a receptor framework', in Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region: Towards Institution Building, pp. 249 - 263, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203817315
,Edited Books
Zou M; Ebers M; Poncibò C; Calo R, (eds.), 2024, Cambridge Handbook on Generative AI and the Law, Cambridge University Press
Ebers M; Poncibò C; Zou M, (eds.), 2022, Contracting and Contract Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Hart / Bloomsbury Publishing, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/contracting-and-contract-law-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence-9781509950683/
Journal articles
2023, 'Mind the gap: Tech-based dispute resolution for disputes in global supply blockchains', Business Horizons, 66, pp. 13 - 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2021.10.008
,2022, 'Force majeure and Covid-19: A Critical Assessment of Key Issues under the Chinese Civil Code', Journal of Contract Law, 38, pp. 61 - 78, https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/agispt.20221004075290
,2021, 'Making Infrastructure 'Visible' in Environmental Law: The Belt and Road Initiative and Climate Change Friction', Transnational Environmental Law, 10, pp. 35 - 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S2047102520000278
,2020, 'An Empirical Study of Reforming Commercial Arbitration in China', Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal, 20, pp. 281 - 290, https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/drlj/vol20/iss3/3
,2020, 'Smart Courts in China and the Future of Personal Injury Litigation', Journal of Personal Injury Law
,2020, 'Code, and other laws of blockchain', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 40, pp. 645 - 665, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqaa018
,2019, 'China and The Belt and Road Initiative: Transnational Labor Law Under State Capitalism 4.0', American Journal of International Law Unbound, pp. 418 - 423, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aju.2019.76
,2019, 'Regulating Working Hours in Hong Kong: Towards Temporal Autonomy', Hong Kong Law Journal, 49, pp. 1 - 28, https://web.law.hku.hk/hklj/2019-Vol-49.php
,2018, 'International and Comparative Employment Relations: National Regulation, Global Challenges', Industrial Law Journal, 47, pp. 583 - 585, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dwy020
,2018, 'Economic Development and the Social Rights Hypothesis: Regulating Labour Standards in China', Asian Journal of Law and Society, 5, pp. 315 - 331, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/als.2018.29
,2018, 'An Assessment of Advance Directives in China: The Coming of Age for Legal Regulation', Marquette Benefits and Social Welfare Law Review, 20, pp. 1 - 24, https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/benefits/vol20/iss1/2/
,2018, 'Social Media and Privacy in the Chinese Workplace: Why One Should Not “Friend” Their Employer on WeChat', Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 39, pp. 389 - 420, https://cllpj.law.illinois.edu/archive/vol_39/
,2018, 'Pour une refonte des programmes pour les travailleurs migrants temporaires', Revue de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale, pp. 18 - 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/rdctss.1972
,2017, 'Towards exit and voice: Redesigning temporary migrant workers' programmes', Lavoro e Diritto, 31, pp. 91 - 109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1441/86321
,2017, 'Understanding Employment Discrimination Litigation in China through the Notion of Rights Apathy', Marquette Benefit & Social Welfare Law Review, 18, pp. 141 - 164, https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/benefits/vol18/iss1/4/
,2017, 'The Regulatory Challenges of ‘Uberization’ in China: Classifying Ride-Hailing Drivers', International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 33, pp. 269 - 294, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2866874
,2016, 'China’s Fragmented Occupational Safety and Health Regime: An Analysis of The Work Safety Law and The Occupational Diseases Law', LAWASIA Journal, pp. 1 - 18, https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/lawasiaj2016&i=15
,2016, 'Migrants at Work: Immigration and Vulnerability in Labour Law', Industrial Law Journal, 45, pp. 565 - 569, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dww032
,2016, 'Regulating Collective Labour Disputes in China: A Tale of Two Actors', Journal of Comparative Law, 10, pp. 276 - 290
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