Research Fields

■EU Law, International Investment Law, Private International Law

Academic Career

■Director 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

Selected Articles

■YE Bin, “A Comment on the EU’s White Paper on Foreign Subsidies: Its Implications to Foreign Investment Protection”, Chinese Review of International Law, No. 6, 2020, pp. 70-85.

■YE Bin, “Incompatibility of the EU Regulation on Screening Foreign Direct Investment with the Principle of Free Movement of Capital”, Chinese Journal of European Studies, Vol. 37, No. 5, 2019, pp. 68-85.

■Bin YE, “Comments on EU’s Proposed Regulation on Establishing a European Framework for Screening FDI: Right Legal Basis?”, EU-China Observer, Issue #4.18, 2018, pp. 9-12.

■YE Bin, “Appropriateness of the Legal Basis of the EU’s Legislative Proposal on Establishing a Framework for Screening Foreign Direct Investments”, Chinese Journal of European Studies, Vol. 36, No. 5, 2018, pp. 25-42.

■YE Bin, “Judicialization of Investor-State Dispute Settlement in the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement”, Chinese Review of International Law, No. 6, 2017, pp. 115-126.

■YE Bin, “EU’s Proposal on ISDS for TTIP Negotiation: Challenges and the Way Forward”, Chinese Review of International Law, No. 6, 2016, pp. 71-82.

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

■YE Bin, “EU’s Trade Agreement Policy in Legal Perspective”, Chinese Journal of European Studies, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2014, pp. 104-122.

■YE Bin, “A Comparison between China-EU and US-EU Bilateral Treaties”, ZHOU Hong (eds.), Blue Book of Sino-EU Relations, Beijing: Social Science Academic Press (China), 2013, pp. 324-350.

■YE Bin, “Legal Developments in EU Economic Governance and Fiscal Integration in the Context of the European Debt Crisis”, Chinese Journal of European Studies, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2013, pp. 45-64.

■YE Bin, “The Legal Status and Institutional Structure of the EEAS”, Chinese Journal of European Studies, Vol. 30, No. 4, 2012, pp. 59-75.

■CHENG Weidong, LI Jingkun and YE Bin, “Ten Years of China’s EU Law Studies: 2001-2010”, Chinese Journal of European Studies, Vol. 29, Supplementary, 2011, pp. 82-109.

■YE Bin, “The New Development of EU Private International Law: Expansion of EU’s Competence and Its Europeanisation”, Chinese Journal of European Studies, Vol. 28, No. 5, 2010, pp. 69-90.

Book

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

Translations

■Paul Craig and Gráinne de Búrca, EU Law: Text, Cases, and Materials, the Chinese version translated by YE Bin, LI Jingku and CHENG Weidong, Beijing: Social Science Academic Press (China), 2021 (coming soon).

■Francis Snyder (eds.), The European Union and China, 1949-2008: Basic Documents and Commentary, the Chinese version translated by LI Jingkun, YE Bin and LIU Heng, Beijing: Social Science Academic Press (China), 2013.

■“Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union”, the Chinese version translated by YE Bin and LI Jingkun, in ZHOU Hong and SHEN Yannan (eds.), Annual Development Report of Europe, Vol. 15 (2011-2012), Beijing: Social Science Academic Press (China), 2012.