The Beijing Consensus?

Weitseng Chen received his JSD in 2007 from Yale Law School where he was a Fulbright scholar. Thereafter, he worked for Stanford University, California from 2007 to 2008 as a Hewlett Fellow of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, conducting research on transitional economies and rule of law reforms. Immediately before he joined the National University of Singapore in November 2011, Weitseng Chen practiced law as a New York State attorney in Davis Polk and Wardwell LLP and worked in its Hong Kong office, specializing in international capital market transactions. His recent research focuses on China's foreign direct investment and property rights transition, a China-Taiwan comparison on their rule of law transition, and the economic behaviors of ethnic foreign investors in China. Prior to his Yale education, he practiced law in Taiwan in diverse fields, including the information technology industry, public interest and international NGO affairs.

• Introduction: debating the consensuses Weitseng Chen; Part I. Deconstructing the Beijing Consensus: 1. Dialogus de Beijing Michael W. Dowdle and Mariana Mota Prado; 2. Imagining China: Brazil, labor and the limits of an anti-model Jedidiah Kroncke; 3. The Beijing consensus and possible lessons from the 'Singapore Model'? Tan Cheng-Han; Part II. Examining the Beijing Consensus in Context: 4. The legal maladies of 'federalism, Chinese-style' Wei Cui; 5. Lessons from Chinese growth: re-thinking the role of property rights in development Frank K. Upham; 6. Size matters? Renminbi internationalization and the Beijing consensus Weitseng Chen; 7. A Chinese model for tax reforms in developing countries? Ji Li; 8. The Chinese model for securities law Yingmao Tang; Part III. Revisiting the Beijing Consensus: 9. Authoritarian justice in China: is there a 'Chinese Model'? Benjamin L. Liebman; 10. China's striking anti-corruption adventure: a political journey towards the rule of law? Hualing Fu; 11. Chinese corporate capitalism in comparative context Curtis J. Milhaupt.

'The relationship between law and development is a question that just will not go away. This volume assembles a top-notch group of scholars to examine what China's experience can tell us. While much of the previous work on this field has been done by economists, the contributors here are intimately familiar with the details of China's legal system and offer new and stimulating insights in this terrific collection of essays.' Donald Clarke, David Weaver Research Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School