NUS-SMU-HKU Symposium 2013 Rights in Asia: Naming, Blaming and Claiming

10 & 11 January 2013, Thursday & Friday National University of Singapore, Bukit Timah Campus and Singapore Management University,

Singapore

SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME

Thursday, 10 January 2013 (Day 1) at NUS 8.30am – 9.00am Registration @ NUS

(Lee Sheridan Conference Room’s foyer, Eu Tong Sen Building, Faculty of Law)

9.00am – 9.30am Symposium Opening Address Professor Johannes Chan Dean, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong Professor Andrew Harding Director, Centre for Asian Legal Studies National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law

9.30am – 10.50am Panel 1: Rights and Wrongs in Asia I Chairperson: Ho Hock Lai

Speakers (20 minutes for each presentation) Tang Hang Wu SCHOOL OF LAW, SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY The Fiduciary Doctrine as A New Pathway: Equitable Relief for Native Customary Right Claims in Sarawak Andrew Harding NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, FACULTY OF LAW

Claiming Rights under Malaysia’s ‘indigenous constitution’: Indigenous people and rights protection as viewed from the longhouse Po Jen Yap FACULTY OF LAW, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG Defending Dialogue

Q&A

10.50am – 11.10am Tea Break

11.10am – 12.30pm Panel 2: Rights and Wrongs in Asia II Chairperson: Michael Dowdle

Speakers (20 minutes for each presentation) Michael Davis FACULTY OF LAW, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

Human Rights, Constitutionalism and Development: The East Asian Challenge Lynette Chua NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, FACULTY OF LAW

Toward Empirical Perspectives on Rights and Society in Southeast Asia Simon Chesterman NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, FACULTY OF LAW After Privacy: The Rise of Facebook, the Fall of WikiLeaks, and Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act 2012

Q&A

12.30pm – 2.00pm Lunch (Staff Lounge, Block B, Level 2)

2.00pm – 3.40pm Panel 3: Chinese Law Chairperson: Andrew Harding

Speakers (20 minutes for each presentation) Pasha Hsieh SCHOOL OF LAW, SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY

The Discipline of International Law in Republican China and Contemporary Taiwan

Christopher Chen SCHOOL OF LAW, SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY

Looking for a Gatekeeper for Suitable Investment Products – A Comparison of Product Intervention Rules in the Three Dragons and Lessons for China Henry Gao SCHOOL OF LAW, SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY

Public-Private Partnership in Trade Law: The Chinese Dilemma Gu Weixia FACULTY OF LAW, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

Securities Arbitration in China: A Better Alternative to Retail Shareholder Protection

Q&A

3.40pm – 4.00pm Tea Break

4.00pm – 5.40pm Panel 4: Litigation and Dispute Resolution Chairperson: Goh Yihan

Speakers (20 minutes for each presentation) Zhao Yun FACULTY OF LAW, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

Domain Name Dispute Resolution Mechanism and Its Implication to the Development of Online Dispute Resolution Ho Hock Lai NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, FACULTY OF LAW

A Rule of Law Justification for the Exclusion of Illegally Obtained Evidence Anna Koo FACULTY OF LAW, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

In Defence of Extrinsic Evidence in Boundary Disputes Q&A

5.40pm - 6.00pm Group Discussion and Group Photo 6.15pm Transport pick up for Working Dinner (by invitation only) 7.00pm Dinner (by invitation only) Prego’s Fairmont Hotel

Friday, 11 January 2013 (Day 2) at SMU 9.00am Registration @ SMU

(School of Law, Level 2, Seminar Room 2-4 foyer)

9.20am – 9.30am Welcome Address Professor Yeo Tiong Min Dean, School of Law, Singapore Management University

9.30am– 10.50am Panel 5: Singapore Law and Governance Chairperson: Gary Chan

Speakers (20 minutes for each presentation) Eugene Tan SCHOOL OF LAW, SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY

Migration and Nation-Building: Rootedness through the Rights and Legal Framework? Jaclyn Ling-Chien Neo NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, FACULTY OF LAW

Singapore’s Mixed Constitution: Negotiating Religious Liberty and Political Equality in a Monist-Subordinating State Jack Lee SCHOOL OF LAW, SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY

This Land Was Made For You and Me: Public Participation in Land Use Decisions in Singapore Helena Whalen-Bridge NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, FACULTY OF LAW

Irreversible Charity: Professional Regulation Prescribing Pro Bono Client Relationships

Q&A

10.50am – 11.10am Tea break

11.10am – 12.30pm Panel 6: Business Law I Chairperson: Pearlie Koh

Speakers (20 minutes for each presentation) Jeremy Leong SCHOOL OF LAW, SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY

Creditors’ Rights, Agency Costs and the Professional Fees of Insolvency Practitioners in Singapore Goh Yihan NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, FACULTY OF LAW

New Distinctions within Terms Implied in Fact Yip Man SCHOOL OF LAW, SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY

Contractual Illegality: Two Questions Concerning the Restitutionary Aftermath Ernest Lim FACULTY OF LAW, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

The Illegality Defence and Company Law

Q&A

12.30pm – 2.00pm Lunch (Li Ka Shing Library, Level 5, Reading Room)

2.30pm – 4.30pm Panel 7: Business Law II Chairperson: Low Kee Yang

Speakers (20 minutes for each presentation) Felix Chan FACULTY OF LAW, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

Is economic theory too imprecise a tool for assessing personal injury compensation in Singapore and Hong Kong?

Eliza Mik SCHOOL OF LAW, SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY

What constitutes a genuine pre-estimate of loss in liquidated damages clauses? Sandra Booysen NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, FACULTY OF LAW

Depositor Protection in Singapore: why, how, who? Tham Chee Ho SCHOOL OF LAW, SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY

Using the cost-of-cure measure where a contract has been breached to value the loss of expectation of due performance: an error in taxonomy Wan Wai Yee SCHOOL OF LAW, SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY

Conflicts of Interests of Financial Advisory Firms in Takeovers and Restructurings Q&A

4.30pm – 4.50pm Tea break 4.50pm – 5.00pm Symposium Closing Address Professor Simon Chesterman

Dean, National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law 5.00pm Group Photo 7.00pm Dinner (by invitation only) Asian Market Café Fairmont Hotel

Organised by:

Bios of Faculty (sorted in alphabetical order by family name)

SANDRA BOOYSEN was born and grew up in South Africa. She obtained a BA from Rhodes University, and an LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand, with distinction. After a short stint as a Public Prosecutor in Johannesburg, Sandra moved to London in 1990 and underwent training as a solicitor with Lane & Partners. After admission as a solicitor in England and Wales, Sandra worked in the area of commercial litigation. She returned to South Africa in 1996 and worked for Deneys Reitz Inc in commercial litigation. During that time, Sandra was admitted as an Attorney of the Supreme Court, and later as a Notary.

Sandra moved to Singapore in 1999. She completed an LLM by coursework at NUS in 2002, and received the Justice A V Winslow prize for Banking Law. In the first year of her PhD research on bank documentation, Sandra was a recipient of the President’s Research Scholarship.

SIMON CHESTERMAN is Dean of the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. He is also Editor of the Asian Journal of International Law and Secretary-General of the Asian Society of International Law. Educated in Melbourne, Beijing, Amsterdam, and Oxford, Professor Chesterman's teaching experience includes periods at the Universities of Melbourne, Oxford, Southampton, Columbia, and Sciences Po. From 2006-2011, he was Global Professor and Director of the New York University School of Law Singapore Programme. Prior to joining NYU, he was a Senior Associate at the International Peace Academy and Director of UN Relations at the International Crisis Group in New York. He has

previously worked for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Yugoslavia and interned at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Professor Chesterman is the author or editor of twelve books, including One Nation Under Surveillance (OUP, 2011); Law and Practice of the United Nations (with Thomas M. Franck and David M. Malone, OUP, 2008); You, The People (OUP, 2004); and Just War or Just Peace? (OUP, 2001). He is a recognized authority on international law, whose work has opened up new areas of research on conceptions of public authority - including the rules and institutions of global governance, state-building and post-conflict reconstruction, and the changing role of intelligence agencies.

LYNETTE J. CHUA is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS). She received her Ph.D. training at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on qualitative empirical research in law and society. Her current research examines the relationship between law and social movements, especially in Southeast Asia. She is writing a book, under contract with Temple University Press, based on an extensive qualitative study on Singapore’s LGBTQ movement. She also has forthcoming articles in Law & Society Review and other journals.

ANDREW HARDING is a Professor of Law at NUS, having spent his entire career since 1978 specialising in law, especially constitutional issues in SE Asia, as well as comparative law and law and development. He has published extensively on Malaysia, and his latest book, The Constitution of Malaysia: A Contextual Analysis, is in press with Hart Publishing, Oxford, as part of the series Constitutional Systems of the World. He co-edited with HP Lee Constitutional Landmarks in Malaysia: The First 50 Years, 1957-2007 (Kuala Lumpur, LexisNexis 2007), and have published numerous articles on the Malaysian Constitution. He has also researched the special cases of Perak and Selangor post-2008 from a constitutional perspective.

GOH YIHAN joined NUS in 2008 after his time as a Senior Justices' Law Clerk and Assistant Registrar in the Singapore Supreme Court. Earned a LLM from Harvard Law School in 2010. In 2010, Yihan was appointed to the list of Young Amicus Curiae of the Singapore High Court and appeared before the Singapore High Court in the same year as amicus curiae. He is currently a Joint Editor-in-Chief of the Singapore Law website, a Visiting Academic at Rajah & Tann LLP, and also a member of some external legal committees.

HO HOCK LAI obtained his first law degree from the National University of Singapore, his postgraduate degree, the BCL, from Oxford University, and his doctorate from Cambridge University. He was called to the Bar of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1990. In November 2005, he was a visiting fellow in the Law Program of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, in September 2008, he was a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto, and in March 2009, he was a Parsons Visitor at Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. He currently teaches evidence law and the administration of criminal justice. His publications include A Philosophy of Evidence Law - Justice in the Search for Truth (OUP, 2008).

JACLYN LING-CHIEN NEO joined the NUS Law Faculty full time in 2007 when she was awarded the NUS Overseas Graduate Scholarship to pursue her masters at Yale Law School. A graduate of the NUS Law Faculty, Jaclyn practiced with the litigation and dispute resolution department at Wong Partnership where she was involved in several significant corporate, commercial and criminal cases. She also tutored part-time at the NUS Law Faculty for Public Law. Currently a JSD candidate at the Yale Law School, Jaclyn's research interests are primarily in the area of constitutional law, with a specific interest in women, minorities and religion.

HELENA WHALEN-BRIDGE is an Associate Professor with the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. She ran the first year Legal Skills Programme from 2003-2009 and now teaches Legal Ethics as well as advanced legal skills. Helena has received the NUS Teaching Excellence Award, and she has done teacher training in India and Hong Kong. Helena cannot leave interesting teaching issues alone, and her research interests include legal education, comparative legal skills, and legal ethics and pro bono. She has published on non-profit pro bono (Legal Ethics 2010), the connection between ethics and legal narrative (Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors 2010), and comparative legal analysis (Journal of Legal Education 2008 and Asian Journal of Comparative Law 2006). Helena is a founding member of the

Law Society of Singapore’s Project Law Help and the Faculty Advisor for the Law Faculty’s student Pro Bono Group.

SMU SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY PROFILE

(sorted in alphabetical order by family name)

Christopher CHEN Chao-hung 陳肇鴻

Assistant Professor School of Law, Singapore Management University

PhD (UCL), LLM (Michigan) Attorney-at-Law (New York)

Attorney-at-Law (Taiwan)

Christopher CHEN Chao-hung is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Singapore Management University. He is a Ph.D. of law from University of London (University College London), an LL.M. from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and an LL.M. and LL.B. from the National Taiwan University. His Ph.D. thesis is entitled ‘Trading Risk: the Contractual Nature of Derivative Transactions and Certain Regulatory Issues’. Christopher Chen’s main research interests include laws related to financial derivatives and risk management as well as investor protection rules regarding complex financial products and comparative law, especially in the area of contract, corporate, insurance and financial laws. Christopher Chen has published in both English and Mandarin Chinese.

HENRY SHUCHAO GAO

Associate Professor School of Law, Singapore Management University LL.B. (China), LL.M. (London), J.D. (Vanderbilt)

Prof. Henry Gao is Associate Professor of law at Singapore Management University and Dongfang Scholar Chair Professor at Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade. With law degrees from three continents, he started his career as the first Chinese lawyer at the WTO Secretariat. Before moving to Singapore in late 2007, he taught law at University of Hong Kong, where he was also the Deputy Director of the East Asian International Economic Law and Policy Program. He has taught at the IELPO program in Barcelona and the Academy of International Trade Law in Macau, and was the Academic Coordinator to the first Asia-Pacific Regional Trade Policy Course officially sponsored by the WTO. Widely published on issues relating to China and WTO, Prof. Gao’s research has been featured in CNN, BBC, The Economist, Wall Street Journal and Financial Times. He has advised many national governments as well as the WTO, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, APEC and ASEAN on trade issues. He sits on the Advisory Board of the WTO Chairs Program, which was established by the WTO Secretariat in 2009 to promote research and teaching on WTO issues in leading universities around the world.

PASHA L. HSIEH

Assistant Professor School of Law, Singapore Management University

JD, LLM (Pennsylvania)

Pasha L. Hsieh is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Singapore Management University School of Law. He holds Juris Doctor and LL.M. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was a Senior Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Prior to joining academia, he served as a Legal Affairs Officer at the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization and as an associate at Shearman & Sterling LLP. He has been the Managing Editor of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs since 2006. Hsieh’s research focuses on international economic law, international law and East Asian legal studies. He is particularly interested in the roles of China and ASEAN in international law and cross-Taiwan Strait relations, and has published articles in the Michigan Journal of International Law, the Journal of World Trade and the Journal of International Economic Law. His works have been cited by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland as well as in leading texts on international law such as Max Plank Encyclopedia of Public International Law and International Law: Cases and Materials with Australian Perspectives (Cambridge University Press). He was awarded Singapore’s Lee Foundation Fellowship for Research Excellence in 2010.

JACK TSEN-TA LEE Assistant Professor

School of Law, Singapore Management University Ph.D. (Birmingham), LL.M. (UCL, London)

Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) Solicitor (England & Wales)

Dr Jack Tsen-Ta Lee is an assistant professor of law at the School of Law, Singapore Management University (SMU). He graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1995 and practised for about six years as a litigator, before completing an LLM at University College London in 2003 on a British Chevening Scholarship. In 2012, he was conferred a PhD for research into the interpretation of bills of rights by the University of Birmingham. He joined SMU in 2008 where he teaches and researches constitutional and administrative law, and also has an interest in the law of cultural property and heritage. He was a 2009 Lee Foundation Fellow for Research Excellence, and won the School of Law’s Most Promising Teacher Award for 2010–2011. He is presently a member of the Law Society of Singapore’s Public and International Law Committee.

ELIZA MIK

Assistant Professor School of Law, Singapore Management University

Ph.D (Sydney), LL.M (Sydney), LL.M (Warsaw)

After leaving the Warsaw Offices of Allen & Overy in 1998, Eliza Mik has worked in-house in a number of software companies, Internet start-ups and telecommunication providers in Poland, Malaysia, Australia and the UAE advising on e-commerce, software licensing and the acquisition of ICT infrastructure. Throughout her career Eliza maintained an interest in all developments (both legal and technical) pertaining to the use of the Internet as an enabler of commerce. Those interests resulted in the 2007 thesis “Contract Formation in Open Electronic Networks.” After joining SMU in 2010, Eliza continued her research into the regulation of e-commerce and the interaction between contract law and technology. Her field of study also includes the contractual allocation of risk by means of liquidated damages.

JEREMY LEONG ZHI JIA

Assistant Professor School of Law, Singapore Management University

M.A.L.D. (Tufts); & LL.M. (Harvard) Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)

Jeremy Leong is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Singapore Management University and his research interests are in international financial and commercial law and corporate restructuring. In particular, Jeremy specializes in conducting inter-disciplinary research into these fields of law and his most current research uses empirical, economic and political economy analysis to study international financial regulations and global financial crises. Prior to joining the Singapore Management University, School of Law, Jeremy practiced corporate restructuring/mergers and acquisitions in two of Singapore’s largest firms. His private practice experience includes advising investors (including public companies and state-linked companies) in acquisitions, investments and divestments in Singapore and the People’s Republic of China as well as advising debtor companies and insolvency practitioners on the cross-border restructuring of private and public companies in Singapore, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Hong Kong and the People’s Republic of China.

TANG HANG WU

Professor School of Law, Singapore Management University Ph.D, LL.M (Cambridge), LL.B (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore), Solicitor (England & Wales)

Tang Hang Wu is a Professor at the Singapore Management University, School of Law. Hang Wu has published widely and his work on equity, trusts and property has been relied on by all levels of the Singapore courts, the Royal Court of Jersey, the Caribbean Court of Appeal and law reform committees in the Commonwealth.

THAM CHEE HO

Associate Professor School of Law, Singapore Management University

LLB (NUS), BCL (Oxford) Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)

Solicitor (England & Wales) Attorney and Counsellor-at-law (New York)

Prior to joining SMU as an Assistant Professor in 2001, Chee Ho had been a Deputy Registrar and Magistrate in the Singapore Subordinate Courts, as well as an Associate in two offshore law firms. He was made an Associate Professor of the School of Law in 2007. Chee Ho graduated from NUS and was awarded the degree of LLB in 1994. He was awarded the degree of BCL from Oxford University in 1998. Chee Ho's research interests straddle common law and equity, with a particular focus on the law of contract and the law relating to intangible personality.

EUGENE TAN KHENG BOON

Assistant Professor School of Law, Singapore Management University

JSM (Stanford), MSc in Comparative Politics (LSE) Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)

Eugene K B Tan is assistant law professor at the School of Law, Singapore Management University. He is a graduate of the National University of Singapore, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Stanford University where he was a Fulbright Fellow. His inter-disciplinary research interests include the mutual interaction of law and public policy, public law, the regulation of ethnic conflict, Singapore government and politics. He has published in these areas in various edited volumes and internationally-refereed journals such as Asian Journal of Business Ethics, Australian Journal of Asian Law, The China Quarterly, Citizenship Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Ethnopolitics, Hong Kong Law Journal, Israel Law Review, Journal of Asian Business, Law and Policy, Singapore Year Book of International Law, and Terrorism and Political Violence.

WAN WAI YEE

Associate Professor School of Law, Singapore Management University

LLB (NUS), BCL (Oxford) Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)

Solicitor (England & Wales) Attorney and Counsellor-at-law (New York)

Wan Wai Yee is an Associate Professor in the School of Law at the Singapore Management University (“SMU”). She is also the Academic Director, Faculty Affairs at SMU. She graduated with an LLB (First Class Honours) from the National University of Singapore in 1996. She also holds a BCL from the University of Oxford, where she was in residence at St Edmund Hall in 1996/97. After obtaining her BCL, she joined the Singapore Legal Service and served as a Justices’ Law Clerk, Assistant Registrar and Deputy Public Prosecutor. Immediately prior to joining academia in December 2005, she was a partner at Allen & Gledhill, Financial Services Department, where she practised in the areas of mergers and acquisitions as well as equity capital markets. Her main areas of research are in corporate and securities regulation. She has published in international peer-reviewed legal journals, including Journal of Corporate Law Studies, Journal of Business Law, Company and Securities Law Journal and Lloyds’ Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly. She was awarded the Lee Foundation Fellowship for Research Excellence in 2007 and was elected Global Research Fellow at New York University School of Law in 2008.

YIP MAN

Assistant Professor School of Law, Singapore Management University

LL.B. (NUS); BCL (Oxford) Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)

YIP Man is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Singapore Management University. She obtained her B.C.L. from the University of Oxford, where she was in residence at Keble College in 2007/2008. Yip’s research focuses on restitution and unjust enrichment, equity and trusts as well as private law remedies. She has published articles in Legal Studies, Lloyd’s Maritime Commercial Law Quarterly and Restitution Law Review.

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Bios of Faculty (sorted in alphabetical order by family name)

Name: Dr. Felix W.H. CHAN

Felix Chan is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean at the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong. Dr. Chan's research interests include shipping law, international trade, commercial law and actuarial evidence. He has published in various journals, including Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce, Tort Law Review and Law Probability & Risk.

He is the co-author of Halsbury's Laws of Hong Kong: Maritime Law (Vol.18) and Transport Law (Vol. 26) (Butterworths), Shipping and Logistics Law: Principles and Practice in Hong Kong (HKU Press) and Personal Injury Tables Hong Kong (Sweet & Maxwell).

Apart from teaching in class and supervising doctoral students, Dr. Chan also coaches moot court teams participating in international competitions.

Name: Prof. Michael DAVIS Michael C. Davis joined the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law in August 2011 after holding a full professorship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He generally teaches in the areas of international human rights, comparative constitutional law, and public international law. He has held a number of academic appointments especially in the human rights field, including the J. Landis Martin Visiting Professor of Human Rights Law at Northwestern University Law School (2005-06), the Robert and Marion Short Visiting Professor of Law in the Center for Civil and Human Rights at Notre Dame Law School (2004-05), the Schell Senior Fellow at the Orville Schell, Jr.

Center for International Human Rights at the Yale Law School (1994-95) and the Frederick K. Cox Visiting Professor of Human Rights Law at Case Western Reserve University Law School (2001). He has also served as the Chair of both the Human Rights Research Committee of the International Political Science Association and the Pacific Rim Interest Group of the American Society of International Law. His books include Constitutional Confrontation in Hong Kong (Macmillan Press, 1990), Human Rights and Chinese Values (Oxford University Press, 1995) and International Intervention: From Power Politics to Global Responsibility (M.E. Sharpe, 2004). He has degrees from Yale Law School (LLM), the University California, Hastings College of Law (JD) and Ohio State

University (BA).

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Name: Dr. GU Weixia

Weixia Gu is an Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Master of Common Law Programme at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. She is a Fulbright Fellow at the New York University School of Law and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. She specializes in arbitration, commercial dispute resolution, and private international law, particularly with respect to China and Greater China. Dr. Gu received her SJD and MCL from University of Hong Kong, and her LLB from East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai. She is the author of the book Arbitration in China: Regulation of Arbitration Agreements and Practical Issues (Sweet & Maxwell, 2012).

Name: Mr. Ernest LIM Ernest Lim BCL (Oxford), LLM (Harvard), LLB (NUS) is an assistant professor in HKU. Prior to joining HKU in August 2011, he worked as a US attorney in the New York and Hong Kong offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell where he specialized in cross-border capital markets transactions. His research interests include company law, corporate finance law, legal theory and contract law. He has written on directors’ duties, corporate attribution, shareholders’ remedies and contractual interpretation. He has four articles forthcoming in the Law Quarterly Review, Journal of Corporate Law Studies and Journal of Business Law and his case comments have appeared in Tort Law Review and King’s Law Journal. He currently teaches the law of business associations and contract law.

Name: Mr. Po Jen YAP Yap Po Jen is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He obtained his LLB degree at NUS, his LLM degrees at Harvard Law School and University College London. He also has a Masters degree in International Relations from the University of Cambridge. He specialises in constitutional law and the law of torts.

Name: Ms. Anna KOO

A. K. C. Koo, LL.B. (King's College London), LL.M. (University of Strathclyde), Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong, Barrister-at-Law, HKIAC Accredited Mediator. Koo writes in the fields of Evidence and Mediation, including interpreted evidence (IJEP 2009), Halsbury's Laws of Hong Kong on Evidence (LexisNexis 2011), mediation confidentiality (CJQ 2011) and mediator immunity (HKLJ 2011). Koo serves regularly as an invited speaker at local conferences, government departments and continuing professional development events. Koo is a member of the examining panel of the Higher Rights Assessment Board and a mediation coach at the HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education.

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Name: Dr. ZHAO Yun

Yun ZHAO studied at China University of Political Science and law in Beijing (LL.M and LL.B), Leiden University, the Netherlands (LL.M) and Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (Ph.D). He is Associate Professor at the Department of Law of The University of Hong Kong. He is Arbitrator of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center and Guangzhou Arbitration Commission, Arbitrator of Lehman-Brothers-related Investment Products Dispute Mediation and Arbitration Scheme, Panelist of the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center and of the Online Dispute Resolution Center of the CIETAC in Beijing. He is also founding Council Member of Hong Kong Internet Forum (HKIF), Honorary Member of Hong Kong Construction

Arbitration Center, Member of International Institute of Space Law at Paris, Member of Asia Pacific Law Association and Beijing International Law Society, Vice President of the CUPL Hong Kong Alumni Association, Judge of Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot. Previously, he was Associate Professor at the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong, researcher at GLODIS Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is listed in Marquis Who’s Who in the World. He is winner of Prof. Dr. I. H. Ph. Diederiks-Verschoor Award 2006 by International Institute of Space Law in France, the first winner of Isa Diederiks-Verschoor Prize in the Netherlands and also first winner of SATA Prize by the Foundation of Development of International Law in Asia (DILA). He has more than 80 publications on various topics including particularly Dispute Resolution, Space Law, and International Economic Law. His recent publication include Dispute Resolution in Electronic Commerce (Martinus Nijhoff, 2005), Liberalization of Electronic Commerce and Law (Peking University Press, 2005), Space Commercialization and the Development of Space Law (Intellectual Property Press, 2008).