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Discipline: Beijing Institute of Technology Law School
Title: Associate Professor
E-mail: kuanyang@bit.edu.cn
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Yang Kuan, Han nationality, Member of the Communist Party of China, Doctor of Law, postdoctoral fellow, Associate professor, doctoral supervisor, assistant dean of the School of Law, Beijing Institute of Technology, Deputy Dean of the Institute of Aerospace Policy and Law. He is also a member of the Board of the Chinese Society of International Law, a member of the Board of the Chinese Society of Space Law, a member of the board and Secretary-General of the Beijing Society of International Law, a researcher of the Space Law Center of the National Space Administration, a member of the IAF Space Traffic Management Committee, a member of the editorial Board of the Annual Journal of China Space Law. Co-expert of the MILAMOS Handbook on International Law Applicable to the Military Uses of Outer Space Project, Member of the Chinese Alumni Association of Trinity University Dublin, Ireland. From 2011 to 2015, he studied in Ireland under the government grant and obtained the Juris Doctor degree from Trinity University Dublin. From 2017 to 2018, he was J. C. Arsenault Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University School of Law, Canada. He was a part-time lecturer at Trinity University School of Law, Dublin, vice-chairman of the All-Ireland Chinese Students' Association, and a member of the World Economic Forum's Outer Space Global Future Council. He has presided over the Youth Project of the National Social Science Foundation, the Basic Technological research project of the State Administration of Science and Industry for National Defense, and the annual project of the China Society of Space Law, and participated in a number of major projects and specially commissioned projects of the National Social Science Foundation, as well as related research projects of the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Education, and the Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization. E-mail: kuanyang@bit.edu.cn

Mainly engaged in public international law, international space law, international aviation law, WTO law research

1. Hosted the National Social Science Foundation Youth project "International Law Regulation of Large-scale Small Satellite Constellations and China's Response";
2. Only academic monograph in English: Regulation of Subsidies in the Civil Aircraft Industry under the WTO Framework, William S. Hein & Co., Inc. & Wells Information Services Inc., 2022.
3. Improving international governance of space debris in the era of large constellations of small satellites and China's response; Advances in Space Research, 2022, SCI Q1;
4. Review and Consideration of the Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, Studies of International Law (Reprinted in full in International Law), 2021(6);
5. "Improvement of the legal Regulation of International Medical Assistance in Global Public Health Emergencies", Journal of Beijing Institute of Technology (Social Science Edition) (Reprinted by China Social Science Abstracts), 2021(5);
6. New Development and Improvement of ITU Satellite Frequency and Orbital Position Resource Allocation Mechanism, China Aerospace, 2021(11);
7. "Legal Regulation of Large-scale Small Satellite Constellations and China's Response", Space Policy Research, 2021(1);
8. "Improvement of the International legal Regulation of Unilateral Withdrawal from the Treaty -- Starting from the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement", Journal of Beijing Institute of Technology (Social Science Edition) (Reprinted in full in International Law), 2019(1);
9. On the Application of International Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflicts in Outer Space, NPC Law Review, 2018(1);
10. "Building a Legal system for Investment Facilitation under the Belt and Road Initiative" (Cooperation), China Annual Journal of International Law (Reprinted by China Social Science Abstracts), 2018;
11. Chinese Perspective on an International Regime of Space Traffic Management; The Journal of Space Safety Engineering, 2019, vol.6;
12. Book Review: Exclusive Use in an Inclusive Environment: The Meaning of the Non-Appropriation Principle for Space Resource Exploitation; McGill Annals of Air and Space Law; 2017, vol.42;
13. "New developments and implications of UAV legislation in the United States", Journal of Beihang University (Social Science Edition), 2019, vol.32(1);
14. On the Legal Regulation of Satellite Navigation, Journal of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Social Science Edition), 2011, vol.24 (5);
15. "Commercial Process of Satellite Remote Sensing in China and its Legal Regulation", Annual Journal of China Space Law, 2010;
16. "On Reforming China's Judicial Committee System", Journal of Beijing Institute of Technology (Social Science Edition), 2009.