Professor Luyao Che delivered the course “Legal Aspects of the Belt and Road Initiative”

Belt and Road initiative (BRI) enacted by the Government of China aims at enhancing global cooperation for developing infrastructure, regional connectivity, and further accelerating economic growth and has immense importance for Eurasian countries and other countries of the world. 

Since the past ten years, the BRI has already welcomed 152 countries around the world to participate in, and has formed more than 200 cooperative documents.

This year HSE students were lucky to discuss all relevant legal issues of this mega project with Professor Luyao Che from China University of Political Sciences and Law, one of the leading experts in the field of international trade and investment.

HSE students from Russia, China, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, India, Cambodia, Nigeria, South Africa actively exchanged views on the impact of BRI on the development of their countries and also raised a lot of interesting and even unexpected legal issues in context of BRI implementation.

Students especially appreciated the fact that the BRI course covered not only legal issues, but also the motives behind China's decisions on global arena, which included China's economic development, historical background, and policy system.

During this course students had a chance to explore the concept of the BRI from various perspectives, China’s foreign investment regime and the BRI, China’s outward investment regime and the BRI, Trade in Goods under the BRI, Intellectual Property (IP) Protection and Technology Transfer under the BRI, potential risks and obstacles for BRI projects and other topics.

We thank Professor Luyao Che for her invaluable contribution and strengthening of the HSE-CUPL educational cooperation in the field of law!