Ling Chen

Dr Ling Chen is a Lecturer at the University of Western Australia (UWA) Law School. His current research considers innovative forms of cooperation between governments and corporations in environmental, climate, and energy governance, and how legal institutions and expertise can advance technology-policy interactions. Before joining UWA, Dr Chen was a Visiting Scholar and an SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Law School (2023-2025), and previously a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and a Research Affiliate with the Penn Program on Regulation (2022). He has also developed legal practice and policy expertise through professional and research roles at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (2016-2018) and the Hague Academy of International Law (2020-2023). Dr Chen received his Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) from McGill University in 2024, defending a thesis entitled 'Climate Clubs and the Law'. He also holds an LLM from the University of Toronto. Before moving to Canada, he completed an LLB, BA, and LLM at Beihang University in Beijing and obtained the Legal Professional Qualification in China. Climate change law, Environmental law, International law, Transnational law, Comparative law, Legal research methodology, Regulatory law and policy

[2025] Subnational Climate Clubs: An Interactional Approach to Transnational Lawmaking. Chen, L. 1 Jul 2025, In: Transnational Environmental Law. 14, 2, p. 312-341 30 p. [2024] Teaching and Learning International Climate Change Law. Chen, L., Smith, T. W., Li, R. & Ogden-Jones, R., 2024, Teaching International Law: Reflections on Pedagogical Practice in Context. Gauci, J.-P. & Sander, B. (eds.). 1 ed. Routledge [2023] Climate Law Education and Its Place in Canadian Law Schools. Chen, L., 2023, In: Environmental Law. 53, 1, 32 p. [2023] Market Mechanisms, Corporations and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Chen, L., 2023, Climate Change and the Testing of International Law. Maljean-Dubois, S. & Peel, J. (eds.). Brill Nijhoff, (Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and Internat