XU Jingchen
Post-Doctoral Fellow
xu.jingchen@nus.edu.sg
+65 6601 7963

Introduction

Dr Jingchen Xu obtained her SJD and LLM in Admiralty (with distinction) from Tulane University Law School. She obtained her LLB in Maritime Law from Dalian Maritime University. At Tulane, Jingchen was a Senior Editor for Volumes 40-41 of the Tulane Maritime Law Journal, and a research assistant to Professor Robert Force. Jingchen's work has been published in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal and the Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce and she has presented papers at several conferences. She has interned with the American P & I Club and several US maritime law firms and is admitted to practice law in New York State and in China.

Research Interests

Research Projects

Due to the unique mobility of ships and the special operational structures of shipping companies, it is difficult to harmonise the international cross-border insolvency regime with the admiralty regime governing ships. The concept of universalism in the area of cross-border insolvency calls for all courts to co-operate with each other and to ensure that all of the debtor's assets are distributed to its creditors under a single and orderly system of distribution in the debtor's home insolvency proceeding. However, admiralty law focuses on the special nature of the international shipping industry and on enforcement of maritime claims against maritime assets. Jingchen's research explores the fundamental tensions that arise between the cross-border insolvency regime and maritime law when a shipowner files an insolvency proceeding in one country, but has simultaneously to deal with admiralty arrests of its vessels in multiple other countries.

Publications

Articles:

Books:

Working Papers:

Presentation