EU Law

Research Fields 

■EU Law, International Economic Law, Private International Law 

Academic Career 

■Chief of Department of EU Legal Studies in Institute of European Studies, China Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing, China) 

Research fellow since July 2009 

■Visiting scholar at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium 

September 2017 to November 2017 

■Jean Monnet post-doctor fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (Florence, Italy) 

September 2014 to August 2015 

■Ph.D. of Law, Wuhan University Law School (Wuhan, China), specialized in private international law 

September 2006 to June 2009 

■Exchange program for Sino-French PhD candidates (funded by Ministry of Education of China), Centre de recherches de droit international, Université de Panthéon Assas Paris II (Paris, France) 

September 2007 to September 2008 

■Master of Law, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (Wuhan, China), specialized in private international law 

September 2004 to June 2006 

Books 

■YE Bin, The EU’s Investment Court System: A Critique of the Judicialization of ISDS, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2025. 

■YE Bin, 2005 Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreement from a Chinese Perspective, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2013. 

Selected Articles 

YE Bin, “Academic Interpretation and Application of the Jurisdiction Rules for Foreign-Related Forum Selection Agreements under China’s Civil Procedure Law”, Guojifa Xuekan - Journal of International Law, Issue 1, 2025, pp. 33-43. 

YE Bin and ZHANG Kun, “Transformation of the EU’s Trade Policy from Open Reciprocity to Restrictive Reciprocity: A Research Centered on the International Public Procurement Instrument”, Ouzhou Yanjiu - Chinese Journal of European Studies, Issue 6, 2024, pp. 46-68. 

YE Bin and YANG Kunhao, “The Extraterritorial Effects of EU Law in the Context of Green Transition: Comments on CBAM and the Proposed CSDDD”, Ouzhou Yanjiu - Chinese Journal of European Studies, Issue 6, 2023, pp. 34-57. 

YE Bin and YANG Kunhao, “The Transformation of the Human Rights-based Economy in Europe: Comments on the Proposed Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive”, Ouzhou Yanjiu - Chinese Journal of European Studies, Issue 6, 2022, pp. 76-107. 

YE Bin, “The China-EU Comprehensive Agreement on Investment and the Right to Regulate: Opportunities and Challenges”, Guojifa Yanjiu - Chinese Journal of International Law, Issue 6, 2021, pp. 3-21. 

YE Bin, “A Comment on the EU’s White Paper on Foreign Subsidies: Its Implications to Foreign Investment Protection”, Guojifa Yanjiu - Chinese Journal of International Law, Issue 6, 2020, pp. 70-85. 

YE Bin, “Comments on EU’s Proposed Regulation on Establishing a European Framework for Screening FDI: Right Legal Basis?”, EU-China Observer, Issue 4.18, March 2019, pp. 9-12. 

YE Bin, “Incompatibility of the EU Regulation of Screening FDI with the Principle of Free Movement of Capital”, Ouzhou Yanjiu - Chinese Journal of European Studies, Issue 5, 2019, pp. 68-85. 

YE Bin, “Appropriateness of the Legal Basis of the EU’s Legislative Proposal on Establishing a Framework for Screening Foreign Direct Investments”, Ouzhou Yanjiu - Chinese Journal of European Studies, Issue 5, 2018, pp. 25-42. 

YE Bin, “Judicialization of Investor State Dispute Settlement in the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement”, Guojifa Yanjiu - Chinese Journal of International Law, Issue 6, 2017, pp. 115-126. 

YE Bin, “EU’s Proposal on ISDS for TTIP Negotiation: Challenges and the Way Forward”, Guojifa Yanjiu - Chinese Journal of International Law, Issue 6, 2016, pp. 71-82. 

YE Bin, “EU-China Bilateral Investment Treaty Negotiation and Its Potential Effects”, Guoji Zhanwang - Global Review, Vol. 7, No. 6, 2015, pp. 117-135. 

YE Bin, “EU’s New Trade Agreement Policy in Legal Perspective”, Ouzhou Yanjiu - Chinese Journal of European Studies, Issue 3, 2014, pp. 104-122. 

YE Bin, “Legal Developments in EU Economic Governance and Fiscal Integration in the Context of the European Debt Crisis”, Ouzhou Yanjiu - Chinese Journal of European Studies, Issue 3, 2013, pp. 45-64. 

YE Bin, “The Legal Status and Institutional Structure of the European External Action Service (EEAS)”, Ouzhou Yanjiu - Chinese Journal of European Studies, Issue 4, 2012, pp. 59-75. 

YE Bin, “Conflict of Laws and Choice of Law Problems in International Choice of Court Agreement: How about the law of Chosen Court?”, in Chinese Yearbook of Private International Law and Comparative Law, Vol 13, 2010, pp. 87-104. 

YE Bin, “The New Development of EU Private International Law: Expansion of EU’s Competence and Its Europeanisation”, Ouzhou Yanjiu - Chinese Journal of European Studies, Issue 5, 2010, pp. 69-90. 

Selected Translation in Chinese language  

Paul Craig and Gráinne de Búrca (2020), EU Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (7th edition). Translated into Chinese by YE Bin, LI Jingkun and CHENG Weidong. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press (2023).