SU Yu 苏宇
Assistant Professor
School of Law
Xiamen University
Xiamen, Fujian, China
Email: yusu@xmu.edu.cn
EDUCATION
UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, University of Dundee, exchange programme sponsored by the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC)
Xiamen University, China
International Law, PhD, 9 / 2011 – 6 / 2015
Sun Yat-sen University, China
International Law, Master’s Degree in Law, 9 / 2009 – 7 / 2011
Sun Yat-sen University, China
Bachelor’s Degree in Law, 9 / 2005 – 7 / 2009
PROFESSIONAL POSITION
Currently affiliated with the school of law, Xiamen University. Courses taught include international law, international economic law and legal English.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
International Water Law, with a focus on the legal challenges facing China over its transboundary waters and the legal framework governing the intricate and complex inter-riparians relationship between China and its neighbours.
PHD PROJECT
Thesis: Exploring the Communicative Dimension of International Law-With a Special Focus on the Normativity of International Water Law. This research, set against the background of increasing number of issues of global concern, aims to reconceptualise the normativity of international law, especially in the field of international water law, through a communicative framework, a framework formulated by drawing insights both from literatures of public international law and philosophy and social theory.
CURRENT PROJECT
National security, China and International law. This research project aims to examine the amended Law of National Security of China, and devise a theoretical framework for analyzing the relationship between national security and international law and its place in China’s peaceful rise.
PUBLICATION
Su, Yu. (2014). "Contemporary legal analysis of China’s transboundary water regimes: international law in practice." Water International 39(5): 705-724.
