Yuanyi Duan
Assistant Professor
Department: Faculty of Law
Office: R701
E-mail: yyduan@must.edu.mo
Academic Qualification


2021 - 2025 Ph.D   / Private International Law / Tsinghua University

2023 - 2024 Joint Ph.D Program   / Private International Law / Heidelberg University

2018 - 2021 Master / International Arbitration and Dispute   Settlement / Tsinghua University

2016 - 2018 Bachelor (Second Degree) / Economics / Tsinghua University

2014 - 2018 Bachelor / Law / Tsinghua University

   


   



Teaching Area

Private International Law, International Commercial Arbitration

Research Area

Private International Law, International Commercial Arbitration

Working Experience
Academic Publication (selected)
  1. Yuanyi Duan, “Duty of Disclosure, Challenge of Arbitrators and Enforceability of Arbitral Awards: Recent Developments under Chinese Law”, in KHAS Hukuk Bülteni 2022-2024 Akademik Yılları Derlemesi, On İki Levha Yayıncılık, 2025.

  2. Yuanyi Duan, Human Rights Guarantee Clauses in Commercial Contracts in International Supply Chains: A Doctrinal Study under German and EU Law (in Chinese), Renmin University Law Review, 2025, Volume 38.

  3. Yuanyi Duan, Reflection and Reconstruction of Autonomous Interpretation and Nationalistic Interpretation in International Civil and Commercial Treaties: A Focus on CISG (in Chinese), Wuhan University International Law Review, 2024(6).

  4. Yuanyi Duan, Relationship Between the Application of International Civil and Commercial Treaties and Private International Law: A Perspective from the Negotiation History and Reservation Effects of the CISG (in Chinese), Western Law Review, 2023(3).

  5. Yuanyi Duan, Arbitrator Disclosure, Challenge of the Arbitrator and the Enforceability of Arbitration Awards: Triple Legal Functions of "Arbitrator Independence and Impartiality”(in Chinese), China International Arbitration Review, 2023, Volume 6.


Books

Translation

  1. Yuanyi Duan, The Three Methods of Private International Law: Designation, Recognition, and Consideration (Translation from French to Chinese), Tsinghua Law Review, 2025, Volume 24, authored by Prof. Dr. Marc-Philippe Weller, Académie de Droit International de La Haye, Recueil des cours (2022).


Research Projects

  1. Study on the Extraterritorial Application of Laws, China Institute of Theory on the People’s Congress System (CITPCS).

  2. Research Project on the Application of International Treaties, Ministry of Justice of the PRC.

  3. Research Project on the Enhancement of Legal Mechanisms for Foreign-Related Commercial Disputes and the Application of Relevant Legal Standards, Supreme Court of the PRC.

  4. Study on Improving the Legal Framework of International Commercial Arbitration and Advancing the Development of China’s Commercial Dispute Resolution Center, Center of Tsinghua Think Tanks.

Patents
Professional Certification and Awards
  1. PRC bar;

  2. Languages: Chinese (Native), English (Fluent), French (Intermediate), German (Intermediate);

  3. Study Abroad Program Scholarship, China Scholarship Council (CSC);

  4. The First Prize in the First Foreign-Related Rule of Law Youth Forum Essay Competition, Renmin University;

  5. Comprehensive and Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University.


Professional Society Membership