L. Chen, Property Law in China: Transition and Trend, 2025 Cambridge University Press Link
L. Chen & L Zhao, Contract Law in China, 2025 Kluwer Law International
L. Chen (el ad) The Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China, English Translation, 2021 Brill.
L. Chen & Andre Janssen (eds), Dispute Resolution in China, Europe and World, 2020 Springer.
L. Di Matteo & L. Chen (eds), Chinese Contract Law: Civil and Common Law Perspectives, 2017 Cambridge University Press.
L. Chen & C.H. van Rhee (eds). Towards A Chinese Civil Code: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. 2012 Brill.
L. Chen, The Making of Chinese Condominium Law, 2010, Intersentia, Cambridge.
RECENT BOOK CHAPTERS
Lei Chen & Zhicheng Wu, (2025), Contract Termination in Chinese law, in Mindy Chen-Wishart, Stefan Vogenauer and Dora Neo (eds), Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia V: Ending and Changing Performance, OUP
Lei Chen & Jia Wang, (2025) The use of AI in China’s Internet Courts, Amy J. Schmitz, Marco Giacalone, Pietro Ortolani (eds) The Cambridge Handbook of AI in Civil Dispute Resolution, CUP, forthcoming
Lei Chen (2023). The Security Interests in Chinese Law: Some Nuances. In Jiang & Sirena (eds.), The Making of the Chinese Civil Code: Promises and Persistent Problems, CUP 131-152.
Lei Chen & Hao Wang (2020) Judicial Control over Arbitral Awards in Mainland China. In The Cambridge Handbook of Judicial Control of Arbitral Awards. CUP. 210¬225.
L. Trakman, Q. Liu. & L. Chen (2020) Investor-state Arbitration in China: A Comparative Perspective. In Dispute Resolution in China, Europe and World, Springer. 231-261.
Jia Wang & Lei Chen (2019). Regulating Smart Contracts and Digital Platforms: A Chinese Perspective. The Cambridge Handbook of Smart Contracts, Blockchain Technology and Digital Platforms. CUP. 183-210.
Lei Chen (2018) Changing Perceptions of Land Ownership in China: Between the Socialist Heritage and Liberal Market. in Socialist Law in Socialist East Asia. CUP, 385-405.
Lei Chen (2017) Damages and Specific Performance in Chinese Contract Law.in Chinese Contract Law: Civil law and Common Law Perspectives, CUP, 377-403.
Lei Chen (2017) Relaxations to Contractual Privity and the Need for Third Party Rights in Chinese Contract Law. Mindy Chen-Wishart, Alex Loke & Stefan Vogenauer (eds) Formation of Contract and Third-Party Beneficiaries: Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia, OUP, 45-63.
Lei Chen (2016) The Availability of Specific Performance in Chinese Contract Law, in Mindy Chen-Wishart and Alexander Loke (eds) Remedies for Breach in Asia, OUP, 21-39
Lei Chen (2015), The Changing Landscape of Condominium Laws and Urban Governance in China. In Lehavi A. (ed) Private Communities and Urban Governance: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives, Springer 1-26.
Lei Chen (2014) The Legal and Institutional Analysis of Land Expropriation in China, in John Gillespie & Fu Hualing (eds), Resolving Land Disputes in East Asia, CUP, 59-85.
Lei Chen (2012) Contextualizing Legal Transplant: China and Hong Kong in P.G. Monateri (ed) Methods of Comparative Law,Elgar Edward, 192-212.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
L. Chen and J. Wang (2025) The Tort Law Reform under the Chinese Civil Code, 33 (1-2) European Review of Private Law 217-249
L. Chen (2024) Will Virtual Hearings Remain in Post-pandemic International Arbitration? 37 Int J Semiot Law, 829–849
L. Chen, (2024) Self-governing Organizations and Culture: Addressing Condominium Law Developments in China, 16 (1) Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law, 20-35
L. Chen, (2023). Court-ordered Apologies: A Chinese Law Position. 31 (5) European Review of Private Law, 1023 – 1030
Wu, Z., & L. Chen. (2023). Revisiting property transfer theory: English law and Chinese law compared. 43 (2) Legal Studies, 259-277. doi:10.1017/lst.2022.36
L. Chen, Z. Liu and Y. Tang (2022). Judicial Transparency as Judicial Centralization: Mass Publicity of Court Decisions in China, Journal of Contemporary China 31:137, 726-739
L. Chen, (2021). Continuity and Change: Some Reflections on the Chinese Civil Code, 29 (2) Asia Pacific Law Review 287-305
L. Chen & Qiyu Wang (2021) Demystifying the Doctrine of Change of Circumstances under Chinese Law—A Comparative Perspective from Singapore and English Common Law, Journal of Business Law, issue 6, 475-497.
L. Chen & S. de Rey, (2021) Non-Monetary Relief for Breach of Contract: A European Perspective on Chinese Contract Law, 29 (2) Asia Pacific Law Review 325-345
L. Chen & Zhuang Liu, (2020) Jury trial and public trust in the judiciary: evidence from cross-countries comparison, 28 (2) Asia Pacific Law Review, 412-436
Howells (et al.) (2020) Consumer law and policy relating to change of circumstances due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 43 Journal of Consumer Policy 437-450
L. Chen (2019). Specific Performance as a Contractual Remedy in Chinese Courts: An Empirical Study 7 (1) Chinese Journal of Comparative Law 95-123
L. Chen & L. Di Matteo (2019) Inefficiency of Specific Performance as a Contractual Remedy in Chinese Courts: An Empirical and Normative Analysis, Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business. 40:3. 275 – 333
L Chen & J Wang (2018). Will Innovative Technology Cause Innovative Legal Framework? Smart Contracts in China. 26 (6) European Review of Private Law 921-942
L. Chen (2018). Debating Personality Rights Protection in China: From a European Perspective. 26 (1) European Review of Private Law. 16-38
L. Chen (2014) Evolving Property Rights in China: Patterns and Dynamics of Condominium Governance, 2(1) Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, 21-42
L. Chen & Gordon Sng (2014) Whither Adverse Possession in Hong Kong? Some reflections on the Consultation Paper by the Hong Kong Law Reform Commission (5) Conveyancer and Property Lawyer. 413-429
M. Kielsgard & L. Chen (2014) The Emergence of Private Property Law and its impacts on Human Rights, 15: 1 Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal 94-134.
L. Chen (2013). Land Registration, Property Rights, and Institutional Performance in China, 2014 Hong Kong Law Journal 44 (3), pp. 841-864
H. Mostert & L. Chen (2011) The Dynamics of Constitutional Property Clauses in the Developing World: China and South Africa, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 17(4), 377-405.
L. Chen (2010) The historical development of the Civil Law tradition in China: a private law perspective, The Legal History Review, 78(1-2) 159-181.
L. Chen (2010) The Developer’s Role in the Surging Chinese Condominium Housing: Through the Comparative Lens of the US System, Asia Pacific Law Review, 18(2), 223-242
L. Chen, (2010) Private Property with Chinese Characteristics: A Critical Analysis of the Chinese Law on Property of 2007, European Review of Private Law, 18(5), pp 983-1004
L. Chen & C G. van der Merwe (2009) Reflections on the role of the managing agent in South African and Chinese condominium legislation, Tydskrif vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Reg (Journal of South African Law), Issue 1, 22-38
L. Chen and H. Mostert, (2007) 2 The Unavoidable Necessity of Formalizing Condominium Ownership in China: A Pilot Study, Asian Journal of Comparative Law, 68-88.
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