Yang Ken
Yang Ken is a CILRAP Fellow and a Ph.D. candidate at the European University Institute. He holds LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from Peking University Law School and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. His research interests include history of international law, with particular attention to twentieth-century China, and internationalism. As a CILRAP Fellow, he has contributed to several CILRAP research projects and has provided editorial assistance for manuscripts published by TOAEP.
Some publications of Yang Ken:
"Wang Tieya", "Zhao Lihai" and "Chinese Women in the Histories of International Law: Forgotten Names and Unfamiliar Paths", in Ignacio de la Rasilla, Jiangyu Wang and Congyan Cai (editors), Histories of International Law in China: All Under Heaven?, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2026.
"峭崖眺远：王铁崖与中国国际法学" ["Envisioning from the Peak: Wang Tieya and the Discipline of International Law in China"], in China Law Review, Vol. 3 (2024), pp. 159–164.
"On Subjugation and the Case of Burma", in Morten Bergsmo, Wolfgang Kaleck and Kyaw Yin Hlaing (editors), Colonial Wrongs and Access to International Law, Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, Brussels, 2020, pp. 95-121.
"杰赛普的中心与边缘：全球化视野下的国际模拟法庭与中国法科生" ["The Center and Peripheries of Jessup Moot: International Moot Court and Chinese Law Students during Globalization"], in Kong Yuan and Peng Fei (editors), The Crisis of the West and the Reconstruction of America, China University of Political Science and Law Press, Beijing, 2018.
"门罗主义与国际法" ["The Monroe Doctrine and International Law"], in Peking University Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 15 (2018).
"作为领土问题的自决——论自决原则对领土诉求的回应及对领土制度的重塑" ["Self-Determination as a Territorial Problem: On the Interaction between the Principle of Self-Determination and Territorial Claims and the Reshaping of the Territorial System"], in Political and Legal Review, Vol. 2 (2016), pp. 149-168.
“Prudence without Collateral Damage: China and International Criminal Justice”, in Policy Brief Series, No. 61 (2016), Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, Brussels, 2016.
