Julien Chaisse (Chinese: 夏竹立; born 1976 in Avignon, France) is a professor of law at the City University of Hong Kong, specializing in international law, with a particular focus on globalization, foreign investment and on digital asset. Education Chaisse received his LLB degree from the Faculty of Law and Political Science, Aix-Marseille University in 1998. He earned his master's degree from the University of Tübingen in 1999 and an LLM degree from the University of Rennes 1 in 2000. In 2004, Chaisse started his doctoral dissertation at the Institut d'etudes politiques d'Aix-en-Provence of Paul Cézanne University Aix-Marseille III, where he became affiliated as a teacher and a researcher. Academic activities From 2007 to 2010, Chaisse was at the World Trade Institute in Switzerland to coordinate a project on multilateral rules on investment, as Alternate Leader of the NCCR-Trade Regulation's Individual Project 11 (2007–2009). In 2009, Chaisse joined the newly established Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and in 2013 become Director of the Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development. Chaisse's experiences living in Asia and Switzerland, with their disparate conditions concerning the availability of freshwater, led him to advocate for the development of "a global legal framework to oversee the business of supplying water, particularly across borders". Under this interest, Chaisse has advised various national governments in crafting water-investment contracts. Chaisse edited and contributed to the festschrift for Mitsuo Matsushita in 2016, including a chapter in the piece examining international economic laws potentially regulating State-Controlled Entities and Sovereign Wealth Funds, and highlighting "a considerable risk of incoherence" for their operations. Chaisse and Sufian Jusoh's 2016 book, The ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement: The Regionalization of Laws and Policy on Foreign Investment, was positively reviewed in Foreign Trade Review, as was Chaisse, Jusoh, and Tomoko Ishikawa's 2017 book, Asia's Changing International Investment Regime: Sustainability, Regionalization, and Arbitration. In 2019, Chaisse joined the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. In the 2020 Times Higher Education (THE) Law Rankings, City University of Hong Kong School of Law was ranked joint 25th in the world. Chaisse's 2019 book China's International Investment Strategy (Oxford University Press) received important acclaims as "an invaluable contribution to our understanding of China's international investment law strategy across domestic, bilateral regional and global levels" and "a must-have for all who wish or need to understand China-related investment disputes. This will be for many