ZHOU Chen 周琛
Associate Professor of Law
Room 305, School of Law, Xiamen University
czhou@xmu.edu.cn
Graduated from the Law School of Wuhan University, Research Institute of Environmental Law(RIEL); funded by Chinese Scholarship Council(CSC) in 2009, participated in the PhD program of Tilburg University(the Netherlands) and successfully graduated three-and-half year later, as the first Jurum Doctor (J.D) cultivated by Sino-Dutch cooperation; used to be Research Fellow of Tilburg Sustainability Center(TSC), Legal Researcher of ClimaXmi Consultancy(Amsterdam); trained under the Lawyer Program of New York University(NYU), Climate Change Negotiation Training Program of UK Energy Centre(UKEC) and Climate Risk Disclosure Training Program of State’s Meteorological Administration(SMA), involved in academic visits and conferences in the USA, the UK, Germany, the Swiss land, Belgium and Israel.
Since 2013, Assistant Professor in the Law School of Xiamen University, Research Institute of Economic Law, with research areas in Climate Change & Energy Policies and Laws, International Environmental Law, WTO Regime, Marine Law; lecturing on Environmental Law, Nature Resources Laws, Climate Change Policies and Laws, Sustainable Development & Environmental Protection Policies and Laws. Master Supervisor.
Member of China European Law Association; Member, China Environmental Law Association; Arbitrator of Xiamen Arbitration Commission(XMAC).
Publications:
“The Legal Barriers to Technology Transfer under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change: the Example of China” (in English), Springer, Germany, 2014(proposed).
“An Obstacle to Address Climate Change: How Suppliers Legally Block Technology Transfer”, Environmental Governance and Sustainability, Edward Elgar Press, 2012
“An In-depth Analysis on Climate Change-Related Technology Transfer”, China-Germany Law Forum, No. 8, Dec. 2011
“Overcoming Legal Barriers in International Transfer of ESTs”, Jiangxi Social Science, No. 31, Mar. 2011
“Legal Barriers in Supplying Climate Sound Technology Transfer”, International Law Review of Wuhan University, No. 13, Feb. 2010
Born in a dry area of Chinese northwest, I set my entire life to draw near water. With the very first opportunity of escaping, I choose Wuhan to study in a university located pretty close to the Yangzi River after entrance examination. Six years later, catching a chance to go abroad to further education, I left my footprints on a country which had historically established above sea--the Netherlands. Sounds lots of water, isn’t it? However, this beautiful, nice tulips place turns out to be a transit point in the lifelong journey. Now, gladly, I am sitting myself in the office two hundred meters away from the East Ocean, within a equally beautiful, nice place---Xiamen. Will the next destination be to live in water, like a fish? Who knows, with such a changing climate...
