Please send direct correspondence to Weixia Gu, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong; Email: guweixia@hku.hk. Research leading to this paper is funded by the Hong Kong Government Research Grants Council General Research Fund (HKU 17606021; 17609419; 17602218) and University of Hong Kong Outstanding Young Researcher Award Scheme. The paper benefited from presentation and discussion at Oxford Law Faculty, Cambridge Law Faculty, Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, NYU Law School, University of Lausanne, Renmin University, Fudan University, IV Oxford Symposium on Comparative International Commercial Arbitration, 2019 American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, 2020 Oxford-HILJ-YJIL “China and International Legal Ordering” Virtual Symposium and 2021 BIICL “Taking Stock: International Commercial Courts in Europe and Asia” Conference. We thank Matthew Erie and Jarrod Wong for constructive comments on earlier drafts.
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