Publications

Kun Fan, “Mediation in China: Bridging Tradition and Modernization”, in Albert H. Y. Chen and Xingzhong Yu (eds.), Research Handbook on Chinese Legal Thought (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2026).

Giorgio Fabio Colombo and Kun Fan, “Legal Orientalism and the Promise of Diversity in International Arbitration”, in Samaa Haridi, Vladimir Pavić and Thom Sikora (eds.), International Arbitration: Local, Global or Both?, ICCA Congress Series, vol. 23 (forthcoming).

Kun Fan, Clarisse von Wunschheim, Yu Bing and Guan Zhong, “China” (country report), in Simon Greenberg, Christopher Kee and J. Romesh Weeramantry, International Commercial Arbitration: An Asia-Pacific Perspective, 2nd ed. (Kluwer Law International) — status to be confirmed.

Kun Fan and Xiaolei Han, “Normative Dualism and Parallel Institution-Building: The Case of the International Commercial Dispute Prevention and Settlement Organization (ICDPASO)”, 44 Boston University International Law Journal 3 (2026), pp. 1-72.

Interviewed by Channel NewsAsia on China’s proposal for a development bank under the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, quoted in Heather Tan, “Not just funding: Why the new China-led SCO development bank could impact the US dollar’s dominance, geopolitics”, Channel NewsAsia, 25 September 2025.

Interviewed by Channel NewsAsia on the China-led International Organisation for Mediation, quoted in Lee Gim Siong, “‘Culturally Sensitive’ Mediation: Can a New China-led International Outfit Earn Global Trust?”, Channel NewsAsia, 6 June 2025.

Kun Fan, “Arbitration Across Human Faculties and Human Societies: A Three-Dimensional Epistemological Analysis”, in Audley William Sheppard and Chiann Bao (eds.), International Arbitration: A Human Endeavour, ICCA Congress Series, vol. 22 (Kluwer Law International, 2025), pp. 141-162.

Kun Fan, Zhijin Huang, Anran Zhang and Angela Zhang, “Navigating BRI Disputes: Understanding Key Actors and Practical Strategies”, CDR Essential Intelligence — Belt & Road Initiative 2025 (Commercial Dispute Resolution, 2025).

Kun Fan, “Climate-Related Investment Arbitration: Tribunal’s Approaches to Rollback of Renewable Energy Incentives”, 22 Transnational Dispute Management 3 (2025), pp. 1-16, special issue “International Investment Arbitration — Environmental Protection and Climate Change Issues” (4th volume).

Interviewed by the South China Morning Post on the difficulties Chinese enterprises face in international arbitration, quoted in Alyssa Chen, “As Chinese firms expand overseas, legal spotlight turns on cross-border disputes”, South China Morning Post, 6 October 2024.

Camilla Baasch Andersen, Kun Fan, Qiao Liu, Ulrich G. Schroeter and Lisa Toohey, “Incorporation by Reference of General Terms and Conditions into a CISG Contract: The Experts Debate”, 25 Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration 2 (2024).

Loïc Cadiet and Kun Fan, “Independence and Impartiality of Arbitrators, Mediators and Experts”, in Judicial Independence in the Third Millennium, XVII World Congress of Procedural Law (Palestra, 2023), pp. 593-642.

Kay Harrison, “Prioritising sustainable development in international investment agreements is vital to protect our future”, UNSW Impact Story, 13 August 2023.

Kun Fan and Xiaochuan Weng (eds.), COVID-19 and International Business and Economic Law: China and a Changing World (Academy Publishing, Singapore, 2023).

Kun Fan, “Arbitrator’s Contract”, Chapter 32 in Stefan Kröll, Andrea K. Bjorklund and Franco Ferrari (eds.), Cambridge Compendium of International Commercial and Investment Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 991-1011.

Kun Fan, “Beyond Law and Politics: An Empirical Study of Judicial Mediation in China”, 14 Journal of International Dispute Settlement 1 (2023), pp. 47-75.

Kun Fan, “Why Do Parties Choose Arbitration? To Each Their Own”, The Social and Psychological Underpinnings of Commercial Arbitration in Europe, 23 March 2022.

Kun Fan, “A Review of China’s Sustainable Development Goals through International Investment Agreements”, ICC Dispute Resolution Bulletin (2022), issue 3, pp. 29-37.

Kun Fan, “China: The 2021 Proposed Amendments to the Arbitration Law: A New Era of Arbitration?”, ICC Dispute Resolution Bulletin (2021), issue 3, pp. 17-21.

Kun Fan, “Localised Globalism”, The Social and Psychological Underpinnings of Commercial Arbitration in Europe, 8 October 2021.

Véronique Fraser and Kun Fan, “Mediators Using Non-Binding Evaluations and Making Settlement Proposals”, 14 New York Dispute Resolution Lawyer 1 (2021), pp. 21-24.

Working Group 3 Report on Mediators Using Non-Binding Evaluations and Proposals, Mixed Mode Task Force, a joint project of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, the International Mediation Institute and the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law.

Kun Fan, “Adaptations and Paradigm Shift: Recent Developments of Commercial Dispute Resolution Mechanism in China”, 7 McGill Journal of Dispute Resolution 1 (2021), pp. 1-33.

Kun Fan, “Glocalisation of Arbitration”, The Social and Psychological Underpinnings of Commercial Arbitration in Europe, 17 December 2020.

Kun Fan, “The Impact of COVID-19 on the Administration of Justice”, Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 10 July 2020.

Kun Fan, “Mediation of Investor-State Disputes: A Treaty Survey”, Journal of Dispute Resolution (2020), issue 2, pp. 327-342.

Kun Fan, “Supreme Courts and Arbitration: China”, in the special issue on the Supreme Courts of Important Arbitral Jurisdictions, b-Arbitra / Belgian Review of Arbitration (2019), issue 2, pp. 587-613.

Kun Fan, Review of “China and International Commercial Dispute Resolution”, edited by Qiao Liu, Wenhua Shan and Xiang Ren (Brill Nijhoff, 2016), Journal of World Investment & Trade, Vol. 20, Issues 2-3 (2019), pp. 455-460.

Kun Fan, “Foreign Direct Investment and Investment Arbitration in China and Hong Kong”, in Carlos Esplugues (ed.), Foreign Investment and Investment Arbitration in Asia (Intersentia, 2019), pp. 25-54.

Kun Fan, “The New York Convention and Chapter 2 of the Federal Arbitration Act”, in James E. Berger (ed.), International Aspects of U.S. Litigation (ABA Book Publishing / ABA Section of International Law, 2017).

Kun Fan，《仲裁在中国：法律与文化分析》，北京：法律出版社，2017年。

Kun Fan, “China-related Investment Arbitration”, Chapter 11 in Peter Yuen, Damien McDonald and Arthur X. Dong (eds.), Chinese Arbitration Law (LexisNexis, 2016).

Kun Fan, “Expansion of Arbitral Subject Matter: New Topics and New Areas of Law”, in Stavros L. Brekoulakis, Julian D.M. Lew and Loukas A. Mistelis (eds.), The Evolution and Future of International Arbitration (Kluwer Law International, 2016), International Arbitration Law Library Vol. 37, pp. 299-319.

Kun Fan and Joanna Jemielniak, “Ethnographic Methods in the Study of Hybrid Processes in Arbitration: the Chinese and Western Perspectives”, European Business Law Review, Vol. 27, Issue 4 (2016), pp. 555-585.

Kun Fan, “‘Glocalization’ of International Arbitration — Rethinking Tradition: Modernity and East-West Binaries Through the Lens of China and Japan”, University of Pennsylvania Asian Law Review (formerly East Asia Law Review), Vol. 11, Issue 2 (2016), pp. 244-292.

Kun Fan, “Salient Features of International Commercial Arbitration in East Asia: A Comparative Study of China and Japan”, American University Business Law Review, Vol. 5, No. 3 (2016), pp. 448-483.

Kun Fan, “An Empirical Study of Arbitrators Acting as Mediators in China”, Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Spring 2014), pp. 777-811.

Asian Development Bank Working Paper (2014).

Kun Fan and Lu Song, “The Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Hong Kong”, Yearbook of Private International Law, Vol. XV (2013/2014), pp. 349-363.

Jalal El Ahdab, Kun Fan and Ruth Stackpool-Moore, « Un point (de vue) actuel sur l’arbitrage en Chine et à Hong Kong : toujours un pays, deux systèmes », Revue de l’arbitrage, 2014, n° 4.

Gavin Denton and Kun Fan, “Hong Kong”, in Carlos Esplugues and Silvia Barona Vilar (eds.), Global Perspectives on ADR (Cambridge/Antwerp: Intersentia, 2013).

Kun Fan, “People’s Mediation in the New Era: Creative Adaptations from the Tradition” (in Chinese), in Xu Xin 徐昕 (ed.), 《调解：中国与世界》 Mediation: China and the World (Beijing: China University of Political Science and Law Press, 2013).

Kun Fan, “International Dispute Resolution Trends in Asia”, Transnational Dispute Management, Vol. 10, Issue 4 (September 2013), pp. 1-16.

Kun Fan, “Glocalization of Arbitration: Transnational Standards Struggling with Local Norms Through the Lens of Arbitration Transplantation in China”, Harvard Negotiation Law Review, Vol. 18 (Spring 2013), pp. 175-219.

Kun Fan, Arbitration in China: A Legal and Cultural Analysis (Oxford/Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 2013), China and International Economic Law Series.

Kun Fan, Review of Nadja Alexander, “Mediation: Process and Practice in Hong Kong” (2010), Hong Kong Law Journal, Vol. 42, Part 2 (2012), p. 665.

(2012), pp. 76-78.

Kun Fan, “The New Arbitration Ordinance in Hong Kong”, Journal of International Arbitration, Vol. 29, No. 6 (2012), pp. 715-722.

Kun Fan and Li Zhengning, “Legal Education in China: Where Does the Future Lie? Comments on the Papers on Legal Education in Mainland Schools” (in Chinese), in Tang Dezong 湯德宗 and Zhong Qi 鍾騏 (eds.), 《2010兩岸四地法律發展：法學教育與法治教育》 (Taipei: Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, 2011), vol. 1, pp. 173-177.

Kun Fan, “Mediation and Civil Justice Reform in Hong Kong”, The International Litigation Quarterly (American Bar Association, Section of Litigation), Vol. 27, No. 2 (2011), pp. 11-14.

Kun Fan, “Prospects of Foreign Arbitration Institutions Administering Arbitration in China”, Journal of International Arbitration, Vol. 28, No. 4 (2011), pp. 343-353.

Kun Fan, “The Risks of Apparent Bias When an Arbitrator Acts as a Mediator: Remarks on Hong Kong Court’s Decision in Gao Haiyan”, Yearbook of Private International Law, Vol. XIII (2011), pp. 535-556.

Kun Fan, “Mediation Tradition and Innovation in China” (in Chinese), Journal of Justice 《司法》, No. 5 (2010), pp. 64-76.

Kun Fan and Clarisse von Wunschheim, “Arbitrating in China: The Rules of the Game. Practical Recommendations Concerning Arbitration in China”, ASA Bulletin, Vol. 26, No. 1 (2008), pp. 35-48.

Kun Fan, “Arbitration in China: Practice, Legal Obstacles, and Reforms”, ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin, Vol. 19, No. 2 (2008), pp. 25-40. French version: « L’arbitrage en Chine : pratique, obstacles juridiques et réformes ».

Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler and Kun Fan, “Integrating Mediation into Arbitration: Why It Works in China”, Journal of International Arbitration, Vol. 25, No. 4 (2008), pp. 479-492.