Dr Kenneth Kang
- kkang at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
- http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2256-0805
- Post Doctoral Researcher In Public International Law
- Weymouth House W401, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
Biography
Dr Kenneth Kang is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Public International Law at the Humanities and Law Department, Bournemouth University. He is currently researching the role that river rights play in producing new modes of regulation along China’s transboundary rivers; investigating the notion of ‘holism’ in hydropower decision-making; and researching the symbolic power of International Environmental Law as a force for managing dissent in the South China Sea.
His work is theoretically informed by the German sociologist, Niklas Luhmann, and he has recently published articles in Law and Critque, and the International Journal of Law in Context.
He is the senior Editor of the Bournemouth University Law Review and he currently teaches the LLM module, ‘Principles of International Law, International Organisations and the World Trade Organisation’.
Previously, Kenneth was a PHD researcher at Xiamen University (China), the China International Water Law Research Group, and he was also a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law (UCWOSL), Utrecht University.
Journal Articles
- Kang, K., 2020. Reformulating ‘Holism' in hydropower decision-making. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 37 (2), 360-368.
- Stafford, R., Kang, K. et al., 2020. Evaluating effective solutions to environmental breakdown. One Earth.
- Kang, K., 2019. On the problem of the justification of river rights. Water International, 44 (6-7), 667-683.
- Kang, K., 2018. Making paradoxes invisible: international law as an autopoietic system. International Journal of Law in Context, 14 (3).
- Kang, K., 2018. Making Use of Paradoxes: Law, Transboundary Hydropower Dams and Beyond the Technical. Law and Critique, 29 (1), 107-128.
- Wouters, P. and Kang, K., 2013. Water Rights and Social Justice in the Mekong Region. Mountain Research and Development, 33 (1), 116-117.