Sienho Yee © 易 显 河
University Professor and Chief Expert, Wuhan University Institute of
International Law / 武汉大学国际法研究所首席专家（全职；2008年8月起）
Author: Towards an International Law of
Co-progressiveness *** Editor-in-chief, Chinese Journal of International Law
(an Oxford journal; SSCI)
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Sienho
Yee’s research interests are in public international law (PIL), especially the
jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the structural
questions of the international legal system.
His articles have appeared in fine journals (List of publications) such as American Journal of
International Law, Columbia Law Review, European Journal of International Law,
German Yearbook of International Law, International and Comparative Law
Quarterly (ICLQ), and Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, and some
have been used as reading materials in august universities and cited in good
casebooks, and cited, reviewed, abstracted, debated in good journals and used
in international litigation. His paper, “A Proposal to Reformulate Article 23
of the ILC Draft Statute for an International Criminal Court”, 19 Hastings
International & Comparative Law Review (1996), 529 (on the relationship
between the United Nations Security Council and the International Criminal
Court), has been considered by some to have contributed to “the origination of
the principle employed in” an important provision, Article 16, of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal
Court. Another paper, The Interpretation of “Treaties in Force” in
Article 35(2) of the Statute of the ICJ, 47 ICLQ
(1998), 884 was reproduced by Germany
as Annex 31 to its Preliminary Objections filed in the Legality of Use of Force (Serbia and Montenegro v. Germany) case
before the International Court of Justice and discussed in that filing (pp. iv;
28) and was described as an “excellent
study” [sic] in Italy’s filing (pp. 11-12), and then was quoted in Judge Elaraby’s 8 separate opinions (Example 1; ICJ Reports 2004，pp. 262, 508,
653, 798, 944, 1093, 1240, 1385) in the related cases. His arguments were
discussed several times in
open court on 9 May 2006 in another related case at the ICJ (all
references). He
contributed two papers on Article 40 (how to start a case) and Article 45 (the
President’s control over proceedings) of the ICJ Statute to the book The Statute of the International Court of
Justice: A Commentary (Oxford University Press 2006). In a paper published in April 2001 he
proposed the concept of the “international law of
co-progressiveness“ and coined this phrase to capture the spirit of the
current stage of international law development following the law of
co-existence and the law of co-operation. His paper on this concept has been used
as teaching materials internationally, featured in Xinhua Digests and
Renmin University Reprints.
His
educational and professional qualifications include his Juris Doctor degree in 1993 from
His
experiences include being: (1) Editor-in-chief, Chinese Journal of International Law (Oxford)
& Advisory Board Member and formerly editor, International Law in
Domestic Courts (Oxford); (2) University
Professor and Chief Expert (full time since 08/2008), Wuhan University
Institute of International Law, Wuhan, China; (3) Project Chief Expert, “State
Major Research Project” on “China’s Constructive Role in the Settlement of
International Disputes and Global Crisis-situations” (China Social Sciences
Foundation), and occasional expert consultant to governmental authorities from
different continents in international dispute settlement and in lawmaking; (4) ILA Headquarters Member and Member (with
responsibility on ICJ matters) of the ILA Study Group on UN Reforms; and former Chair
(2001-04), ILA American Branch Committee on International Dispute Settlement;
(5) former judicial law clerk to (a) Judge Li Haopei, Appeals Chamber, UN Int’l
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and to (b) Judge Robert E. Cowen,
US Court of Appeals, 3d Cir.; (6) former counsel, IMF Legal Dept; (7)
associate, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York; (8)
formerly, Professor of International Law and Director of the Silk Road
Institute of International Law, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China; associate
professor of law at the University of Colorado School of Law; also as teacher
of international law in other interesting places.
He has given presentations/lectures at interesting
places including the “Very
Hot Palace“ at St Petersburg, Russia during its 300th
anniversary celebrations (Forum prorogatum returns to the
International Court of Justice) and the Old Library,
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