Welcome! I am an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law.

I am a historian of international law and comparative law. My research explores how China’s economic rise has transformed the global economic order. I approach this question through topics such as sovereign debt, trade, and corporate governance.

My research has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Comparative Law, Harvard Law Review, Berkeley Journal of International Law, Journal of American-East Asian Relations, and an edited volume on China-Africa relations.

I received a JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, a PhD in history from Yale University, and a BA summa cum laude in Chinese from Arizona State University. I began my career in the international development sector, including two years in the Zambia office of IDinsight, an economic research and consulting firm.

I teach courses in business law, international trade law, and law and development.

A copy of my CV is available here.

Writing

Selected Publications

The World Bank and the Origins of Chinese State Capitalism (forthcoming, Berkeley Journal of International Law)

From Legal Transplants to Policy Irritants: Chinese Economic Expansion and Global Legal Change, 73 American Journal of Comparative Law 430 (2025). (peer reviewed)

Designing the Twenty-First Century State: Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o and the Provocation of East Asian Economic Growth, in After Bandung: New Perspectives on China and Africa (Vivien Chang & Benedito Machava, eds.) (University of Michigan Press). (peer reviewed) (forthcoming)

The Chinese Reorganization Loan of 1913: International Loan Contracts and the Question of Consent, 32 Journal of American-East Asian Relations 187 (2025). (peer reviewed)

Dr. Wu’s Constitution, 132 Harvard Law Review 2300 (2019).

Translation: 论“吴氏宪草,”现代法治研究 (2020).

Dissertation

The Dream of Benevolent Finance: Chinese Bankers and Global Borrowers, 1994-Now