Dr. Maria Adele Carrai is Professor at New York University, Shanghai. She is a sinologist and political scientist with an interest in conceptual history and history of international law. She was Research Associate as part of the China, Law, and Development team at Oxford University. She is a recipient of a three-year Marie Curie Fellowship at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance, a Fellow at Harvard University Asia Center, and an Associate Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute of Columbia University. Dr. Carrai completed her Ph.D. at the University of Hong Kong where she was Swire Scholar, and a recipient of the Hong Kong Government Ph.D. Fellowship and the Award for Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student for 2015-16. She was a fellow at Columbia University’s Italian Academy, Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program, European University Institute of Florence, and New York University Law School.
She has published various articles and book chapters. She has authored the book called “Sovereignty in China”, A Genealogy of a Concept Since 1840 (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Some of her publications include “China’s Unilateral Abrogation of the Sino-Belgian Treaty: A Case Study of a Deviant Transplantation” in Michael Ng and Zhao Yun, Chinese Legal Reform and the Global Legal Order: Adoption and Adaptation (Cambridge University Press, 2017); “Learning Western Techniques of Empire: Republican China and the New Legal Framework for Managing Tibet” in the Leiden Journal of International Law (2017); and “China’s Malleable Sovereignty Along the Belt and Road Initiative: The Case of the 99-year Chinese Lease of Hambantota Port” in the New York University Journal of International Law and Politics (2019). With the support of the Harvard University Asia Center, she organized the conference ‘Legal Pluralism in Asia and Histories of International Law(s),’ and the results will be published in a volume under review by Cambridge University Press.

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