Liu Jingdong (ed.), Studies on the Ratification and Implementation Mechanism of Singapore Mediation Convention, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, May 2021, ISBN 978-7-5203-8272-4.

Singapore Mediation Convention, adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2018 after 4 years of preparation by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, aims at safeguarding the global enforceability of settlement agreements resulting from mediation of commercial disputes. Signed by 46 states, including China, on August 7, 2019, the Convention provides a new international law approach to the peaceful resolution of international commercial disputes. China’s decision to sign the Convention fully demonstrates China’s firm stand of supporting multilateralism and is of great significance to China’s participation in global economic governance and in the adoption of international rules, the improvement business environment, building an honest society, the advancement of the construction of rule of law system for the Belt and Road Initiative, the formation of the commercial mediation market and the improvement of the legal service capacity in China.

This book, written by researchers of CASS Institute of International Law on the basis of the report on the final results of the project “Assessment Study on Singapore Mediation Convention”, is the first authoritative and systematic study of Singapore Mediation Convention and its ratification and implementation mechanism published in China. On the basis of systematic interpretation of specific provisions of the Convention, this book focuses on the analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of China’s ratification of the Convention, and puts forward suggestions on the implementation of the Convention in China at the legislative, judicial and law-enforcement levels. This book embodies not only the editor’s personal experience of witnessing the negotiation and signing of the Convention, but also the academic results made by the editor in a number of investigations.

The editor-in-chief of this book, Liu Jingdong, is the head of International Economic Law Department of CASS Institute of International Law; a professor of International Law and a doctoral supervisor at University of CASS, a vice chief justice of No.4 Civil Division of the Supreme People’s Court of China (April, 2015-December, 2017); a vice president of WTO Law Research Society under China Law Society and a standing member of Council of China’s Arbitration Law Society; a special consultant of the Supreme People’s Court of China, a member of first International Commercial Expert Committee of China International Commerce Court (CICC), and an arbitrator at China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission.