US-China Partnership for Environmental Law

Research Projects

Through the program, VLS, SYSU and CUPL faculty and students will conduct research on practical approaches to ameliorating China’s extensive environmental problems. Past student and faculty research has been supported by the Lingnan Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Students are involved in year-long collaborative research projects that pair VLS students with either SYSU or CUPL law students. VLS students travel to SYSU and CUPL to present the research results together with their SYSU and CUPL counterparts and to expand their knowledge of China’s legal system and environmental laws.

Collaborative Research Projects

2009 - 2010

Heather Jarvis and Wei Xu, Comparative Analysis of Air Pollution Trading in the United States and China, 36 Environmental Law Reporter 10234 (2006).
http://www.elr.info/articles/vol36/36.10234.pdf

Jesse L. Moorman and Zhang Ge, Promoting and Strengthening Public Participation in China's Environmental Impact Assessment Process: Comparing China's EIA Law and U.S. NEPA, 8 Vermont Journal of Environmental Law 278 (2006–2007).
http://www.vjel.org/journal/VJEL10054.html

Martin Eng and Daisy Zhong, Comparative Analysis of Environmental NGOs in the United States and China (2006).

Quoc Nguyen and Peng Ruoyu, International Comparative Analysis on Environmental Dispute Resolution of the Wengyuan Cancer Villages (2007).

Linda Tsang and Qingfeng Yang, This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land: Remedies for China’s Polluted Land and Soil (2007).

Li Zhiping, Protection of Peasants' Environmental Rights During Social Transition: Rural Regions in Guangdong Province, 8 Vermont Journal of Environmental Law 338 (2006–2007).
http://www.vjel.org/journal/VJEL10053.html