Creation of Scientific community

Professor Asaka plans to research (a) the independent development of Australian Law and “Unity of Common Law” and (b) class actions in Australia, comparing Australian class action disputes with those in the US and recently commenced consumer group litigation in Japan. Professor Asaka plans to research at the University of Sydney from July to September 2015.

Vivienne’s teaching and research interests are in International Business Law and Chinese law (particularly Chinese investment and commercial law). She has first class honours in Chinese and in Law from the Australian National University, and a Master of Laws from Harvard University. She is admitted to practice in Australia, New York, England and Wales and Hong Kong and, prior to joining Sydney Law School, was a partner of international law firm Coudert Brothers. Vivienne has extensive professional experience in Sydney, New York and Hong Kong, specialising in international commercial law, with a focus on foreign investment and commercial transactions in the People’s Republic of China and the Asian region.

Chester Brown is Professor of International Law and International Arbitration at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney; a Barrister at 7 Selborne Chambers, Sydney, and an overseas associate of Essex Court Chambers, London, and Maxwell Chambers, Singapore. He teaches and researches in the fields of public international law, international dispute settlement, international arbitration, international investment law, and private international law. He also maintains a practice in these fields, and has been involved as counsel in proceedings before the International Court of Justice, the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, inter-State and investor-State arbitral tribunals, as well as in international commercial arbitrations.

Christine Chappuis is Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where she teaches methodology, contract and tort law. Her research focuses on those fields as well as on international contracts and international harmonization of contract law. Former member of a group of colleagues working on a restatement of the Swiss law of obligations funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, she took part in the Working Group for the preparation of the third edition of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts and is a member of the Groupe de Travail Contrats Internationaux. Admitted to the Bar, she was active as counsel to Geneva law firms before joining the University in 1999. Former president of the Geneva Law Society, she was also president of the General Assembly of Professors of the University of Geneva and is currently Dean of the Faculty of Law. She is author and editor of several important books and papers focusing, among others, on harmonization of contract law and contract practice. She obtained her PhD degree in 1989 and was awarded the Walter Hug prize among other honours.

Alessandro (PhD European University Institute, LLM University College London, JD University of Siena) is a post-doctoral researcher at the Art-Law Centre of the University of Geneva and lecturer in public international law at the Université Catholique of Lille. He is reporter for Italy of the “International Law in Domestic Courts-Oxford University Press” project and member of the Editorial Committee of the “Italian Yearbook of International Law”. He is the author of the book “The Settlement of International Cultural Heritage Disputes” (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Ms. Lei Chen, Director of the international office at Renmin Law School, got her bachelor degree and master degree in law respectively in 2009 and 2011 at Renmin Law School, and has worked at the international office of Renmin Law School since 2011. She is in charge of the international cooperation between Renmin Law School and its partners in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Africa.

Professor, Harvard Law School and Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law, Bioethics, and Biotechnology. Glenn is one of the world’s leading experts on the intersection of bioethics and the law, as well as health law. He is the author of more than 80 articles and book chapters, and the author, editor, or co-editor of seven books. He was the youngest professor on the faculty at Harvard Law School (tenured or untenured) both when he joined the faculty in 2008 (at age 29) and when he was tenured as a full professor in 2013 (at age 34).

Dayuan Han, the Dean and Professor of Constitutional Law, has taught at Renmin University of China Law School since 1987, where his courses include constitutional law and comparative constitutional law. He held undergraduate degree in law from Jilin University, and received masters and Ph.D. degrees from Renmin University of China. Besides his many scholarly articles published in journals of law, his major books include The Constitutional-Making Process of 1954 Constitution (2014); The Constitutional Logic of the Right to Life (2012); Research on Asian Constitutionalism (2008); Basic Theories of Constitutional Law (2008); and Comprehend the Spirit of Constitutional Law (2008). Professor Han also serves as the President of China Association of Constitutional Law, and the Executive Vice President of China Association of Legal Education. He received honorary doctorate degree of Law at the University of Lapland, Finland in 2012, and the award of the Cheung Kong Scholar given by the Ministry of Education of China to honor his contribution to academic research and teaching.

Jacques de Werra is professor of contract law and intellectual property law at the Law School of the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Jacques researches, publishes and speaks on topics related to various aspects of intellectual property law, contract law, particularly on the commercialization of intellectual property assets by way of transfer of technology, licensing and franchising, IT and Internet law, as well as on alternative dispute resolution mechanisms for IP and technology disputes. He is the organizer of the Internet l@w summer school (www.internetlaw-geneva.ch) and the coordinator for the University of Geneva of the WIPO - University of Geneva Summer school on Intellectual Property.

JIN Haijun, professor of law, Director of Intellectual Property Law Program, Renmin University of China Law School. Ph.D (Renmin University), LL.M (Renmin University; University of Washington) and LL.B (Southwest University of Political Science and Law). He has been a visiting professor of the University of Washington School of Law (Spring Term, 2014) and Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Fall Term, 2009-10), and a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School and Max-Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law in Munich respectively in 2006 and 2005. Before joining the faculty of Renmin Law School, he has once practiced law as a lawyer during 1993-95. He is the author of Empirical IP Studies (Intellectual Property Publishing House 2015), Intellectual Property Rights of Private Right (Renmin University Press, 2004), and co-author of the core textbook Intellectual Property Law (High Educational Press, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th eds.), among other books and articles in Chinese. Some selected works in English are “Reality and Potentiality: Compulsory Patent Licensing in China from a Comparative Perspective”, 31 European Intellectual Property Review 93-100 (2009), and one chapter of “China” in Intellectual Property in Asia: Law, Economics History and Politics, Paul Goldstein and Joseph Straus ed., Springer, 2009, pp 17-54. He has translated these fundamental IP law books into Chinese: The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law (authored by William Lands and Richard Posner), The Making of the Modern Intellectual Property Law (authored by Bentley and Sherman), Copyright’s Highway (authored by Paul Goldstein), and Resource Book on TRIPS and Development (ICTSD, UNCTAD ed.).

Lu Haina, Ph.D. in law from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), associate professor of the Renmin University of China Law School. She also serves as the director of the human rights program at the Renmin Law School. Her research is focused on human right law, labor law, social security law, and migration studies. Her publications include “Personal Application of the Right to Work in the Age of Migration”, in Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (2008); and the book Right to Work in China: Labour Legislation in the Light of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Intersentia Publishing, 2011.

Dr GUO is a Professor of Law at Renmin University of China (RUC) since 2001.

He is elected Vice Chairman and Secretary General of China IP Law Society. He is also a panelist of the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center, a member of the panel of neutrals in the Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, a member of the National Product Defects and Safety Management Standardization Technology Commission, a member of the Technology Commission of Auto Repairing, Renewal, and Refunding of China, and the Honorable Advisor of the Hong Kong Brand Protection Alliance.

LIU Junhai is professor of law and the Director for Business Law Center, RUC since 2006.He is the Vice President & Secretary General of China Consumers Protection Law Society. He is also an adviser for State Authority of Industry & Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU). His representative publications are Protection of Shareholders’ Rights(1995, 1997, 2004), Corporate Social Responsibility(1999), Modern Corporate Law (2008, 2011,2015)  and Modern Securities Law (2011). In addition to advising NPC on the reform of Corporate and Securities Law, he has advised the Supreme Court on numerous judicial interpretations and controversial cases on business law.He is the National Financial Law Expert and Team Leader of the TA project “Improving the Legal Framework for Securities and FuturesMarkets” (2014-2016) retained by ADBin collaboration with Legislative Affairs Committee of NPC. He was adjunct senior research fellow at China Securities Regulatory Commission (2013-2015).He was the Vice Chairman of China Consumers’ Association (2008-2015).He was professor at Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)from 1995 to 2006. He was a visiting scholar at Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, Amsterdam and Oslo.

Ghena Krayem is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, teaching andresearching in the areas of constitutional and public law, legal ethics, the application of sharia in Australia, Muslim women and Islamic family law. She is the author of Islamic Family Law in Australia: To Recognise or not To Recognise (Melbourne University Publishing, 2014). Dr Krayem is a regular commentator on issues relating to the Muslim community. She is also a family dispute resolution practitioner with Legal Aid New South Wales, Australia.

Miiko Kumar is a Barrister and a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law. Miiko teaches both compulsory and elective courses in Evidence and Procedure. Miiko was admitted as a solicitor in 1996 and called to the Bar in 2001. As a solicitor, she worked at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW) and Crown Solicitor’s Office. She was a law reform officer at the Australian Law Reform Commission and worked on the adversarial system of litigation inquiry; Managing Justice, A Review of the Federal Civil Justice System, Report No 89 (2000). Miiko was an Advisory Committee Member and Consultant on the Australian Law Reform Commission’s review of the Evidence Act; Uniform Evidence Law, Report No 102, (2005). Miiko is the co-author of Companion to Uniform Evidence Law with Stephen Odgers SC and Dr Elisabeth Peden, which was first published in 2004 (fourth edition published in 2012) and Principles of Civil Procedure in New South Wales (second edition published in 2012, with Dorne Boniface and Michael Legg). Miiko is also the examiner for the NSW Bar evidence exam and is a member of the Exam Working Party Committee of the NSW Bar Association.

Patricia Lane has worked in a variety of legal and administrative roles. She is a practitioner at the NSW Bar. She has also been a former Registrar and Member of the National Native Title Tribunal. Patricia has also participated in various peace negotiations concerning the Sudan as a resource person to mediators and parties in respect of land, environment, and natural resources.

Prof. Wang Liming graduated from Hubei University of Finance and Economics in 1981 and obtained the Master’s degree of law in 1984 and the doctor’s degree of law in 1990 from Renmin University of China. Since 1984 he has been working in Renmin University. He became associate professor in 1988 and professor in 1992. He was appointed as Deputy Dean of the Law School and served as Dean of the School of Law from May 2005 to May 2009. Now he is RUC Executive Vice President and Vice Chairman of the University Council. He is deputy to the ninth, tenth and eleventh National People’s Congress, member of the NPC Committee for Finance and Economics, member of the NPC Committee for Law, distinguished professor of the Yangtze Scholar, national candidate for the Millions of Talents Project in the New Century and grantee of the State Council special allowance. Within his research scope are jurisprudential methodology, general regulation of civil law, commercial law theories, property law, debt and contract law, and tort law. He has undertaken many strategic and forward-looking research projects of overall importance in the field of legal studies and democratic government by law, such as National Social Science Foundation Key Project “Property Legislation Study”, a National Social Science Foundation Key Project; Humanities and Social Science Projects of the Ministry of Education “Studies on Chinese Civil Code and Some Major Problems” “Studies on Legislative Problems of Chinese Tort Law”, and Major Base Project of the Ministry of Education “Draft Proposals for the Civil Code and Statement on Reasons for Legislation”. He has also published about 200 papers in core periodicals, and over 20 books like General Principles of the Civil Law and On Property Law, etc. playing a leading role in the related fields with extensive in-depth studies.

Mr.YE Lin, Ph.D.in law from Renmin University, professor of Renmin Law School; Panel arbitrator for China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), Beijing Arbitration Commissions(BAC),Taiwan(China) Arbitration Center, and several other local arbitration commissions in China. Over 100 disputes have been arbitrated in the last 10 years. His research is focused on Commercial Law, Company Law, Security Law, and Consumer Protection Law.

Professor Luke Nottage specialises in international arbitration, contract law, consumer product safety law and corporate governance, with a particular interest in Japan and the Asia-Pacific. He is founding Co-Director of the Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL), Associate Director of the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney, and Comparative and Global Law Program coordinator for the Sydney Centre for International Law. Luke is also a Director of Japanese Law Links. His major research project over 2014-16 is an ARC Discovery Project on foreign investment dispute resolution. Luke studied at Kyoto University (LLM) and Victoria University of Wellington (BCA, LLB, PhD), and first taught at the latter and then Kyushu University Law Faculty, before arriving at the University of Sydney in 2001. Luke’s publications include Product Safety and Liability Law in Japan (Routledge, 2004), Corporate Governance in the 21st Century: Japan’s Gradual Transformation (Elgar, 2008, lead-edited with Leon Wolff and Kent Anderson), International Arbitration in Australia (Federation Press, 2010; lead-edited with Richard Garnett), Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia (Routledge, 2011; edited with Vivienne Bath), Consumer Law and Policy in Australia and New Zealand (Federation Press, 2013; edited with Justin Malbon), Asia-Pacific Disaster Management (Springer, 2014, edited with Simon Butt and Hitoshi Nasu) and four other books.

Patrick Parkinson is a professor of law at the University of Sydney and a specialist in family law, child protection and the law of equity and trusts. He was President of the International Society of Family Law from 2011-2014. His books include Australian Family Law in Context (6th ed, 2015), Tradition and Change in Australian Law (5th ed, 2013), Family Law and the Indissolubility of Parenthood (2011), The Voice of a Child in Family Law Disputes (with Judy Cashmore, 2008), Child Sexual Abuse and the Churches (2nd ed, 2003) and Principles of Equity (editor, 2nd ed., 2003). Professor Parkinson served from 2004-2007 as Chairperson of the Family Law Council, an advisory body to the federal Attorney- General, and also chaired a review of the Child Support Scheme in 2004-05 which led to the enactment of major changes to the Child Support Scheme. Prof. Parkinson is also well-known for his community work concerning child protection. He has been a member of the NSW Child Protection Council, and was Chairperson of a major review of the state law concerning child protection which led to the enactment of the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998. He also works with churches on child protection issues.

Henry Peter is professor at the Law School of the University of Geneva. Between 1998 and 2012, he set up and has been head of the Master in Business Law postgraduate program of the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne. Since 2006 he is head of the commercial law department of the Geneva University Law School. He is member of the board of the LL.M. Tax program of the University of Geneva. He is or has been teaching and/or visiting professor in various Universities in Switzerland and Europe. Between 2004 and 2015 he has been member of the Swiss Takeover Board (TOB) and is, since 2007, member of the Sanction Commission of the Swiss Exchange (SIX). He has been chairman of the Geneva Business Law Association between 2003 and 2006, is member of the editing board of the Swiss Review of Business and Financial Market Law and member of the board of the Center of Banking and Financial Law of the Geneva University. He is member of the Board of the Swiss Arbitration Association and of the Ethics Committee of the International Automobile Federation (Paris and Geneva). He chairs the Sport's Commission of the University of Geneva. He is author or editor of more than 100 papers and books. He is chairman or member of the board of directors and of committees (audit and remuneration) of several companies, including Swiss Life, Lombard Odier and Zegna. He frequently acts as chairman, sole arbitrator or member of arbitral tribunals in commercial or sport matters. He has been member (and eventually chairman) of the America's Cup Arbitration Panel between 2000 and 2009.

ZOU, Qizhao began his postdoctoral research at Renmin Law School in September of 2013 with main interests in securities, derivatives, property and contracts. Dr. Zou has a LLM from UCL (University College London) and a PHD in law from UIBE (University of International Business and Economics, Beijing). He participated in projects launched by SCRC aiming to offer legislative proposals for the amendment of Securities Law and drafting of Future Law. He is also a P.R.C. practicing lawyer.

Professor Joellen Riley, Dean at the faculty of law holds degrees in law from the Universities of Sydney and Oxford, and has been teaching and researching in the field of employment and labour law since 1998. She studied law after a number of years as a financial journalist, and spent some time in commercial legal practice before joining the University of Sydney. Her academic career includes some years on the staff of the Law Faculty of the University of New South Wales, where she taught principally in corporate and commercial law.  Joellen is a Fellow of the Commercial Law Association.

Gian Paolo Romano is full professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Geneva, where he lectures on private international law, including international family law, international litigation and comparative law. He holds a dual PhD from the University of Paris 2 and the University of Padua (2005). For the period 2002-2010 he was scientific legal advisor at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne, where he was responsible for private international law and Italian law. He is Co-Editor of the Yearbook of Private International Law. Gian Paolo Romano practised law in Italy, Belgium and England, served as Chairman in an international arbitration and currently advises a number of Swiss law firms in cross-border transactions and disputes, both in the family and commercial context.

Rui Guo is an associate professor of law at Renmin University of China. He teaches Corporate Law, Financial Regulations, Capital Market and Human Rights (Disability Rights). Professor Guo graduated from Harvard Law School, and his dissertation focuses on China’s State Owned Enterprises (SOE). His research emphasizes that in China the modern state ownership is not merely a diminishment or a reduction of state planning capacities, but a displacement from ideological to legal techniques of government that indicate fundamental transformations in statehood and a new government-business relation.

Alan Rycroft (BA (Rhodes) LLB (Natal) LLM (London) is a qualified attorney, accredited arbitrator and mediator. Since 1983 he has been a law teacher, initially at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, in Durban, where from 1995 to 2000 he was Dean of the Faculty of Law. He moved to UCT in 2009 where he is the now the Deputy Dean and Professor of Commercial Law.Arising from his interest in labour law is an involvement in dispute resolution. Since 1988 he has been an accredited mediator and arbitrator. From 1996 he was a part-time Senior Commissioner with the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA). He is the author of several books in the fields of labour law, dispute resolution and workplace harassment.

Deputy Director, University of Sydney Institute of Marine Science Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Tim Stephens is Professor of International Law and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Sydney. Tim teaches and researches in public international law, with his published work focussing on the international law of the sea, international environmental law and international dispute settlement. He has published over 80 articles, book chapters and notes in Australian and international publications and has authored, co-authored or edited seven books. Major career works include The International Law of the Sea (Hart, 2010) with Donald R Rothwell and International Courts and Environmental Protection (Cambridge University Press, 2009). In 2010 Tim was awarded the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Academy of Environmental Law Junior Scholarship Prize for ‘outstanding scholarship and contributions in the field of international environmental law’. He has been a consultant for several non-governmental organisations, including a long association of work for the International Fund for Animal Welfare in relation to cetacean conservation. In 2014, Tim was appointed, on the nomination of the Australian Government, to the List of Experts for the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation. Between 2010 and 2013 Tim was Co-Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law. Tim has a PhD in law from the University of Sydney, an M.Phil in geography from the University of Cambridge, and a BA and LLB (both with Honours) from the University of Sydney. He is admitted as a legal practitioner in the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

Dr. TANG Weijian, Professor of Renmin Law School. He got his Ph.D. in law from China University of Political Science and Law, and was the first doctor in civil procedure law in China. He worked in Renmin Law School as a post-doctoral fellow from 1995 to 1997 and was the first post-doctoral fellow in civil procedure law in China. He has worked at Renmin Law School since October 1997. He was promoted to associate professor in June 1998 and was promoted to professor on June 2002. He also served as the Vice President of Civil Procedure Law Institute of China Law Society, the Eleventh and Twelfth National Committee Member of CPPCC, the First Invited Supervisor of the Supreme People's Court, the Member of the Case Guidance Committee of the Supreme People's Procuratorate. His research interests focus on Chinese civil procedure law, comparative procedure law, evidence law, judicial system and bankruptcy law.

ZHU Wenqi, Professor of international law in Renmin School of Law (2002 -  ), former Legal Advisor in the Chinese Foreign Ministry (1988 - 1994) and Appeals Counsel in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and that for Rwanda (1994 - 2002), Author of the books of Modern Introduction of International Law, International Criminal Law and International Criminal Procedure Law (published by Commercial Press in Beijing between 2013 and 2015).

Sonya lectures in civil and criminal procedure and private international law. Previously, Sonya spent many years as a commercial litigator at Blake Dawson (now Ashurst); taught conflict of laws, Vis international commercial arbitration moot, revenue law and business law at the University of Technology, Sydney and was a taxation specialist at an international accounting firm. Sonya is particularly interested in civil procedure and legal education. She is the author of Civil Procedure published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012 and is currently undertaking doctoral research on the interaction between case management and procedural fairness.

Julian Wyatt is completing a PhD at the University of Geneva on static and dynamic treaty interpretation by international courts and tribunals and works as an international arbitration lawyer at LALIVE in Geneva. After initial legal studies and commercial litigation practice in Australia, Julian moved to Switzerland where he first studied, then taught and conducted research in public international law. He was notably a member of the French Environment Ministry’s team at the Copenhagen climate conference and the Australian Attorney-General’s team for the Whaling in the Antarctic (Australia v. Japan) case before the International Court of Justice.

Mr. Lin Ye, Ph.D.in law from Renmin University, professor of Renmin Law School; Panel arbitrator for China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC),Beijing Arbitration Commissions (BAC),Taiwan( China) Arbitration Center, and several other local arbitration commissions in China. Over 100 disputes have been arbitrated in the last 10 years. His research is focused on Commercial Law, Company Law, Security Law, and Consumer Protection Law.

Professor WANG Yi, joined Renmin Law School faculty in 2005, is standing director & Secretary-General of China Civil Law Society and Deputy Director of Civil and Commercial Law Research Center of Renmin University of China, which is a key research base supported by the Ministry of Education of China. His research and teaching focus on contract law, property law, tort law, general principles of civil law and methodology of civil law. He also practices as the arbitrator of  China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission and several municipal arbitration commissions in China. He was awarded Chang Jiang Scholar by Ministry of Education of China in 2014.

Prof. Dr. Zhao Xiuwen, Renmin University of China Law School, Beijing, China; panel arbitrator for China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Conciliation Center, Singapore International Arbitration Center (SIAC), Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA) and several local arbitration commissions in China; over 300 disputes has been arbitrated in the last 26 yeas, including dozens of international cases involving a large amount of money under the administration of CIETAC, Beijing Arbitration Commission (BAC) and International Chamber of Commerce Court of International Arbitration (ICC Court).