The Old Silk Road: Retracing Steps toward One Belt One Road

In this opening workshop in the One Belt One Road programme, a multidisplinary group of scholars will reassess the Old Silk Road, the centuries-old, pan-continental trading route that helped to establish China as a world superpower.

As the current Chinese government plans the resurrection of this route as part of its efforts to regain that status in the twenty-first century, we will trace the legal implications for such an ambitious international enterprise. The initiative, known as One Belt One Road, will span countries across several continents, which serve as home to almost two-thirds of the world’s population, and account for one-third of the world’s wealth.

The project will study the legal and regulatory framework that will be required by such an ambitious cross-border initiative to harmonize the various legal regimes of the countries affected. In doing so, it will examine a wide range of issues, including the protection and exchange of cultural property, international dispute resolution mechanisms, and the harmonization of competing jurisdictions and judicial traditions.

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Participants include:
Denis Galligan, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford

Ying Yu, Research Fellow in Law Justice and Society, Oxford

Donna Kurtz, Professor of Classical Art, Oxford

Troy Steinberg, Researcher, School of Geography and the Environment