Legal Challenges of China's One Belt One Road Initiative: Private International Law Considerations

This book covers new legal developments of the One Belt One Road (OBOR) project and assesses how litigation may be organised to enforce and compensate for defaults in its related initiatives.

This book is structured into five themes, consisting of essays which assess the decade of BRI's existence in the context of international economic engagement and the rule of law, private international law, dispute resolution mechanisms - including mediation - and judgement mobility. The chapters in the book strike new ground and cover recent developments such as the establishment of China’s International Commercial Court, engagements in multiple Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) construction and investment projects.

The book will be of interest to researchers, academics, policymakers and students interested in private international law issues pertaining to the OBOR routes as well as private international law in general, Asian studies and the politics of international trade.

Poomintr Sooksripaisarnkit is Lecturer in Maritime Law at the Australian Maritime College, University of Tasmania, Australia. He is Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and Senior Fellow of the Bali International Arbitration and Mediation Center (SFBiam). He is on the Panel of Arbitrators of the Thailand Arbitration Center (THAC), the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA) and the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA). He is on the Panel of Arbitrators and Panel of Neutrals under the eBRAM Apec Rules of the eBRAM International Online Dispute Resolution Centre. He is a Supporting Member of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association. He is an Accredited Mediator by both the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) and the Hong Kong Mediation Accreditation Association Limited (HKMAAL). He obtained his LLB from Thammasat University in Thailand and subsequently pursued his LLM in International Commercial Law and PhD from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. He also obtained a Diploma in International Maritime Arbitration from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. His research interests lie in private aspects of maritime law, insurance law (marine and non-marine), carriage of goods by sea, international sale of goods carried by sea, private international law (conflict of laws) and aspects of international arbitration (relevant to conflict of laws).

Sai Ramani Garimella is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Legal Studies of South Asian University in India and Senior Research Associate at the Research Centre for Private International Law in Emerging Countries of the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. She is Coordinator-Team 1 in the project on International Investment Contracts, Roma Tre-UNIDROIT Center for Transnational Commercial Law and International Arbitration, Rome, Italy. Her research interests are in the intersectional spaces within International Economic Law, Dispute Resolution, Transnational Private Law and International Legal Theory. She is a frequent contributor to the Hart series on Studies in Private International Law in Asia, authoring the chapter on the Indian jurisdiction on a variety of private international law issues. She has been awarded the Isambard Kingdom Brunel Visiting Fellow Grant at the University of Portsmouth, UK, for the year 2019. She is also a resource faculty at the Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi, India, and has served as a subject expert on Private International Law for the Government of India programme on developing electronic lecture database resources in this knowledge domain.