Ge Chen

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Dr. Ge Chen is Associate Professor of Global Media and Information Law and Director of the Centre for Chinese Law and Policy at Durham University. His research focuses on free speech and global constitutionalism, with particular attention to China. He has held academic positions at the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, and Yale Law School, and was previously a research associate at the Mercator Institute for China Studies, the EU’s leading China think tank. He is the author of Copyright and International Negotiations: An Engine of Free Expression in China? (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and the 2025 recipient of the Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression.

Experience

  • 2024–present
    Associate professor, Durham University
  • 2018–2024
    Assistant professor, Durham University
  • 2021–2022
    Resident Fellow, Yale University, Yale Law School, Information Society Project
  • 2016–2018
    Research Associate, Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS)
  • 2013–2014
    Postdoctoral Research Associate in Intellectual Property and Global Regulation, University of Cambridge, CRASSH
  • 2012–2012
    Visiting Academic, University of Oxford, Programme for Comparative Media Law and Policies, Centre for Socio-legal Studies

Education

  • 2015 
    George-August University of Göttingen, Dr.iur. (PhD in law)
  • 2007 
    Nanjing University, LLM
  • 2006 
    George-August University of Göttingen, Mag.iur.
  • 1998 
    Fudan University, BA

Publications

  • 2026
    How China Curbs Free Speech Beyond Its Borders: Legal Strategies of Transnational Censorship, Journal of International Media & Entertainment Law, 11(1), 1-41
  • 2023
    The "Constitutional" Rise of Chinese Speech Imperialism, Journal of Free Speech Law, 2(2), 483-572
  • 2022
    How Equalitarian Regulation of Online Hate Speech Turns Authoritarian: A Chinese Perspective, Journal of Media Law, 14(1), 159-179
  • 2017
    Copyright and International Negotiations: an Engine of Free Expression for China? , Cambridge University Press
  • 2014
    Piercing the Veil of State Sovereignty: how China’s Censorship Regime into Fragmented International Law can Lead to a Butterfly Effect, Global Constitutionalism, 3(1), 31-70

Professional Memberships

  • Fellow, Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (UK)
  • Fellow, Higher Education Academy (UK)
  • Member of the Society of Legal Scholars (UK)
  • Member of the Board of Directors of the European China Law Studies Association (EU)
  • Member of the National Communication Association (US)

Honours

2025 recipient of the Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression

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