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Samuli Seppänen

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law

6/F, Lee Shau Kee Building

Shatin, New Territories

Kowloon, Sha Tin

Hong Kong

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1.

After Difference: A Meta-Comparative Study of Chinese Encounters with Foreign Comparative Law

The American Journal of Comparative Law , The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2020-08
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2020
Samuli Seppänen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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China, comparative law

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Guidebook to a Foreign Land: Review of Comparative Law as Critique by Günter Frankenberg

The American Journal of Comparative Law, volume 66, issue 2, 2018[10.1093/ajcl/avy010]
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 26 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2025
Samuli Seppänen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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comparative law

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Ideological Conflict and the Rule of Law in Contemporary China – Useful Paradoxes (Table of Contents and Excerpts from Chapter 1)

Ideological Conflict and the Rule of Law in Contemporary China – Useful Paradoxes, Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2016-17
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 01 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2016
Samuli Seppänen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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Chinese law, rule of law, ideology, jurisprudence

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Rawls Rejected, Ignored and Radicalised: Debating Procedural Justice in China

Forthcoming in Flora Sapio, Susan Trevaskes, Sarah Biddulph & Elisa Nesossi (eds.), Justice: The China Experience (Cambridge University Press), The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2017-13
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 26 Jun 2017
Samuli Seppänen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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China, Legal Theory, Rule of Law

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Performative Uses of Sovereignty in the Belt and Road Initiative

Forthcoming in Zhao Yun (Ed.), International Governance and the Rule of Law in China under the One Belt One Road Initiative, Cambridge University Press, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2017-14
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 26 Jun 2017
Samuli Seppänen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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China, Public International Law, Sovereignty

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Chinese Legal Development Assistance: Which Rule of Law? Whose Pragmatism?

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 51, No. 1, 2018, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2018-03
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 23 Feb 2018
Samuli Seppänen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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China, Rule of Law, Foreign Development Assistance

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The New Chinese Doctrine of Non-Intervention

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2025-23, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, volume 74, issue 2, 2025[10.1017/S002058932510081X]
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 29 Jul 2025 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2025
Ewan Smith and Samuli Seppänen
University College London - Faculty of Laws and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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Public international law, China, non-intervention, international relations, sovereignty

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Formalism and anti-formalism in the Chinese Communist Party’s governance project

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2021-05, Forthcoming with Global Constitutionalism
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 26 Feb 2021
Samuli Seppänen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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Production and Global Dissemination of Chinese Legal Ideology: Implications for the Study of Illiberalism

Cardozo International |-.1.-| Comparative Law Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2023, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2023-15
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 23 Jun 2023
Samuli Seppänen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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China, globalisation of law, illiberalism

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Disorientation for the New Era: Intraparty Regulations and China’s Changing Party-state Relations

Forthcoming in Rogier J. E. H. Creemers and Sue Trevaskes (eds.), Law and the Party in Xi Jinping’s China: Ideology and Organization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2020-09
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 15 May 2020
Samuli Seppänen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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China, CCP, illiberalism

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Ideological Renewal and Nostalgia in China's 'Avant-Garde' Legal Scholarship

Washington University Global Studies Law Review, Vol. 13, Issue 1, 2014
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 12 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2015
Samuli Seppänen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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Anti-Formalism and the Preordained Birth of Chinese Jurisprudence

China Perspectives (2018/14), 31-38, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2019-08
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 10 May 2019
Samuli Seppänen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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Chinese law, legal theory

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From Substance to Absence: Argumentative Strategies in the Implementation of the Human Rights-Based Approaches to Development

New York University Journal of International Law and Politics (JILP), Vol. 49, No. 389, 441, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2017-12
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 04 Jun 2017
Samuli Seppänen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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Human rights, development

14.

The Party-State

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper 2025-22, Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook on Law and Authoritarianism
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 29 Jul 2025 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2025
Samuli Seppänen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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Chinese law, Party-state, The Communist Party of China, Authoritarian law

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Turning the Party-State Inside Out: CCP Intraparty Regulations as a Theoretical Challenge

The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 10, Issue 1, April 2022, Pages 128–139, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjcl/cxac003, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2022-12
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 14 Jun 2022
Samuli Seppänen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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China, intraparty regulations, legal theory, illiberalism

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Interrogating Illiberalism Through Chinese Communist Party Regulations

Cornell International Law Journal, Vol. 52, No. 2, 2019, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2020-10
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 02 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2020
Samuli Seppänen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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China, illiberalism, legal thought

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The Chinese Balloon Incident and Partisanism in International Law

Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law (JICL), Vol. 7, No. 1, 2024, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2024-06
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 23 May 2024
Samuli Seppänen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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China, international law, territorial integrity, airspace, espionage

18.

Ideology and Historiographic License in Chinese Legal Scholarship

Law & Social Inquiry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2023-14, Law & Social Inquiry, volume 49, issue 3, 2024[10.1017/lsi.2023.37]
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 15 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2025
Samuli Seppänen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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China, legal history, ideology

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Ideological Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic: China and Its Other

University of Pennsylvania Asian Law Review, Vol. 16, No. 1, 24 (2020), The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2021-06
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 08 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2021
Samuli Seppänen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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Chinese Legal Thought on the Global and the Domestic Stage: A Rhetorical Study

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2023-13, Asian Journal of Comparative Law, volume 18, issue 2, 2023[10.1017/asjcl.2023.5]
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 15 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2025
Samuli Seppänen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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China, comparative law, globalization

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Conceptualizing the Chinese Party-state Without the Rule of Law

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2025-20, Published in Michael Sevel (ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Rule of Law (Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2024): 333-344
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 29 Jul 2025 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2025
Samuli Seppänen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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Rule of law, Rule-by-law, China

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Adjudication in the Rhetorical Context of Chinese Ideological Speech

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2025-21, Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, volume 17, issue 2, 2025[10.1007/s40803-025-00250-x]
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 29 Jul 2025 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2025
Samuli Seppänen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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Chinese law, Adjudication, Rhetorical theory