Monday, March 9, 2026
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. EDT
Location: 125 E Street NW MCC 620
March 9, 2026
The Geopolitics of Law in the People's Republic of China
From Domestic Control to Economic Lawfare in U.S.–China Relations
Event Series: Chinese Politics and Economy Research Seminar Series
This talk examines the evolving geopolitical role of economic law in U.S.–China relations. Drawing on her book Law and Political Economy in China (2023) and a recent article, “The Laws of Financial Decoupling: Financial Lawfare in U.S.–China Friction” (2025), Tamar Groswald Ozery will discuss how China’s politicized use of law in domestic market governance has expanded outward into forms of economic lawfare. In parallel, the talk will demonstrate empirically how law has also become a central instrument of American economic statecraft. Groswald Ozery will explain how together these dynamics offer a comparative framework for understanding the geopolitics of law in U.S.–China relations and its growing role in reshaping global economic governance.
This is event is co-sponsored by Georgetown University’s Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues, Center for Asian Law, and McCourt School of Public Policy.
Featuring
Tamar Groswald Ozery is an assistant professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She previously served as a Grotius fellow at the University of Michigan Law School, a research and teaching fellow at Harvard Law School, and as editor of the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. As a legal sinologist, her scholarship focuses on Chinese corporate governance, cross-border investment, and party–state–market relations. She is a frequent commentator on China’s legal system and political economy and has testified before the U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission. Prior to academia, she led the China department of a leading Israeli law firm.