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Dr GUAN, Wenwei

LL.B. (Zhongshan)
LL.M. (Peking)
MA and Ph.D. (UBC)

Assistant Professor

Dr GUAN, Wenwei

Contact Information

Office: P5405
Phone: +(852)-3442-6101
Email: w.guan@cityu.edu.hk

Research Interests

  • WTO Law and Practice
  • TRIPS and Intellectual Property Theory
  • (Contemporary Western) Legal Theory
  • Law and Development
  • Trade and Investment in the PRC

Selected Articles

  • “A Comparative Study of Olympic Marks Protection and Beyond: the United States, Canada, and China,” in Pitman B. Potter & Ljiljana Biuković eds., Globalization and Local Adaptation in International Trade Law, UBC Press, pp. 256-284, 2011.
  • “Legitimacy Dynamics: Rights, Norms, and Local Cultural Imperatives — Government and the Recognition of Individual Creation in China’s IP Law.” (2010) 3.3 International Journal of Private Law, pp. 300-316.
  • “PRC Legislation in the First Half of 2009: the Saga of a Well-structured Legal Reform Continues.” (2009) 1 City University of Hong Kong Law Review, pp. 163–174. Invited note for the inaugural issue of the CityU Law Review.
  • “Development Deficit and Modern Law’s Myth of Origin.” (2008) 8.1 Global Jurist (Advances), Article 2, available at: http://www.bepress.com/gj/vol8/iss1/art2.
  • “The Poverty of Intellectual Property Philosophy.” (2008) 38.2 Hong Kong Law Journal, pp. 359-397.

Research Projects

  • Principal Investigator, "A Law-Economics Study on the Intellectual Property and Competition Dynamics," CityU Strategic Research Grant (Project No. 7008078), HKD 176,728, October 2010 to September 2011.
  • Principal Investigator, "Commutative Justice vs. Distributive Justice: A Comparative Study of Civil Justice Reform in Hong Kong and the Mainland," CityU Start-up Grant for New Staff (Project No. 7200212), HKD $100,000, August 2010 to January 2010.