binxin.zhang
Binxin Zhang
Phone: 0613171791 - binxin.zhang@sciencespo.frBinxin Zhang obtained her PhD in political science from Sciences Po Paris in 2024. Her dissertation “Meet the Other and (Re)define the Self: Africans in China and Chinese Imaginings of Race, Nation and World Order” explores the construction of Chinese self-images through an examination of Chinese perceptions of, discourses on, and interactions with Africans in China.
Previously, Binxin Zhang worked as Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Xiamen University Law School and as Legal Officer at the International Committee of the Red Cross Regional Delegation for East Asia. She has been visiting scholar at National Taiwan University, the Australian National University and Sciences Po (Paris) Law School.
Binxin Zhang has contributed her expertise to international expert groups such as the Woomera Manual on the International Law of Military Space Operations and the International Panel on the Regulation of Autonomous Weapons. She also holds a PhD in international law from Renmin University of China.
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Teaching
2025, Droit dans les relations internationales, ISIT (Institut de Management et de Communication Interculturels), M1
2021, Introduction to political science (seminar), Sciences Po Nancy, L1
2013-2020, Xiamen University Law School, Bachelor and Master Levels :
• Public International Law
• International Humanitarian Law
• International Criminal Law
• Sociology of International Law
• International Dispute Settlement -
Languages
English (fluent); French (working level); Chinese (mother tongue)
“Africans in China, Western/White Supremacy and the Ambivalence of Chinese Racial Identity”, The China Quarterly, published online in March 2024, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741024000286
“China and International Law: Two Tales of an Encounter” (co-authored with Jean d’Aspremont), Leiden Journal of International Law, vol. 34, no, 4, December 2021
“Accountability and Responsibility for AI-enabled Conduct”, in Robin Geiß and Henning Lahmann (eds.), Research Handbook on Warfare and Artificial Intelligence, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024
“Rethinking the Geopolitics of a Collective System for Armament Regulation”, in Richard Falk and Augusto Lopez-Claros (eds.), Global Governance and International Cooperation: Managing Global Catastrophic Risks in the 21st Century, Routledge, 2024
“China and International Humanitarian Law”, in Ignacio de la Rasilla and Congyan Cai (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of China and International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2024
“Cyberspace and International Humanitarian Law: The Chinese Approach”, in Suzannah Linton, Tim McCormack and Sandesh Sivakumaran, eds., Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law, Cambridge University Press, 2019
“War Crimes Trials in China after the Second World War: Justice and Politics”, in Liu Daqun and Zhang Binxin, eds., Historical War Crimes Trials in Asia, Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, 2016
“Recognizing the Limits of Victims Participation: A Comparative Examination of the Victim Participation Schemes at the ECCC and the ICC”, in Simon Meisenberg and Ignaz Stegmiller, eds., The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: Assessing Their Contribution to International Criminal Law, T.M.C. Asser Press, 2016
“Mitigating Circumstances in International Criminal Sentencing”, in Morten Bergsmo et al., eds., Historical Origins of International Criminal Law: Volume 3, Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, 2015
Historical War Crimes Trials in Asia (co-editor with Liu Daqun), Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, 2016.
