China International Water Law Symposium - Day 3

The final day of the 1st Annual International Water Law Symposium and Workshop consisted of a workshop and a PhD forum.

The workshop consisted of short introductions by Dutch (University Utrecht) and Chinese (Wuhan University) researchers to increase the cooperation in international water law research.

The PhD forum consisted of four presentations of PhD topics and external assessment by Professor Karen Bakker (UBC); Dr. Owen McIntyre (Cork); Dr. Sergei Vinogradov (Dundee); Pr. Rijswick (Utrecht). The presenting students and their topics were:

• Su Yu - “A New Approach to Implementing International Water Law – Communications theory, transboundary waters and China”
• Kenneth Kang - “Revisiting systemic approaches to managing transboundary waters – combining theoretical approaches to address contemporary issues” (thesis overview)
• Zoe Yang – “Connecting International Law and the Local User – What Legal Challenges?”
• Liping Dai – “The legal approach to integrated water resources management in China” (visiting PhD researcher at Xiamen CIWL from Utrecht)