Keynote Speakers


Prof. Paul Maharg
Australian National University, College of Law

Paul Maharg is Professor of Law in the ANU College of Law, Canberra, and is Director of the PEARL (Profession, Education and Regulation in Law) centre in the College.  He is also a part-time Professor of Law at Nottingham Law School.  Prior to this he was Professor of Legal Education at Northumbria University School of Law; and Professor of Law in the Glasgow Graduate School (GGSL), University of Strathclyde.  At Strathclyde he was Co-Director of Legal Practice Courses, and Director of the innovative Learning Technologies Development Unit at the GGSL, as well as Director of the two-year, JISC/UKCLE-funded project, SIMPLE (SIMulated Professional Learning Environment) and consultant to the JISC/HEA Simshare project.  His authored and edited books include Transforming Legal Education: Learning and Teaching the Law in the Early Twenty-first Century (2007, Ashgate Publishing), Digital Games and Learning (2011, Continuum Publishers), Affect and Legal Education: The Impact of Emotion on Learning and Teaching the Law (2011, Ashgate Publishing), and The Arts and the Legal Academy: Beyond Text in Legal Education (2012, Ashgate Publishing).  He is co-editor of two book series (Digital Games and Learning, Routledge Publishing, and Emerging Legal Education, Ashgate Publishing) and has published widely in the fields of legal education and professional learning design.  He was a member of the Legal Education & Training Review Group (LETR – http://letr.org.uk) in England and Wales and has consulted with many regulatory bodies.  His specialisms include international and interdisciplinary educational design, and the use of technology-enhanced learning at all levels of legal education.  He was appointed a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2015), a National Teaching Fellow (2011), and a Fellow of the RSA (www.thersa.org).  He is a Visiting Professor at Hong Kong University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Adjunct Professor in Griffith University, and 2014 Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning at Denver University Sturm College of Law. He blogs at http://paulmaharg.com.


Dr. Khin Mar Yee

Dr Khin Mar Yee has been working as Professor since 2005 and has been starting as Head of Department of Law, University of Yangon, Myanmar since 2007. She received her Master Degree in 1986 and got her PhD degree on Intellectual Property Law in 2003 from University of Yangon.

In 2000, she attended Special Training on International Civil and Commercial Law in Japan and Intensive Training Workshop on Intellectual Property Law in Thailand. In 2003, she had been to Switzerland and France for attending "Interregional Intermediate Seminar on Industrial Property" sponsored by WIPO. In 2005, she went to Seventh South Asia International Humanitarian Law and Refugee Law Teaching Session at India.

From 3.12.2007 to 20.2.2008, she was a member of the commissioner of the Drafting Commission of the Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. Between 2008 and 2010, she acted as a member of Delegation and Negotiation for Maritime Boundary Delimitation between Bangladesh and Myanmar and travelled to India, Bangladesh, USA and Germany for that purpose.

In 2012, she was at Toulouse University of France for teaching purpose in January and attended Joint Meeting of the Open Society Foundations at the Central European University (CEU), Hungary. In 2013, she went to 7th Worldwide Conference of the Global Alliance for Justice Education in India.

In 2014, she went to Japan regarding International Symposium on Intellectual Property Rights, to Australia for study tour on Leadership and Public Policy Administration Yangon University Program Oxford University and to New York for Civil Society Scholar Awards USA. In 2015, she took workshop about Geographical Indications of Origin in Asia and Beyond; Perspectives on Trade, Development and Culture in Singapore and also to Vietnam for Teaching Purpose in University of Ho Chi Minh. From 11 March 2016 to 12 March 2016, she attended Human Rights Course at Norway. In March 2016, she attended Inauguration Ceremony of Asian Legal Exchange Plaza and the International Sympos

Confirmed speakers (in alphabetical order)


Ms. Deborah Ankor
Flinders Law School

Deborah Ankor is Associate Dean (Professional)/Director of Professional Programmes at Flinders Law School, where she teaches practical legal training topics, coordinates LLAW3264 Social Justice Internship, and is involved in the management of the Flinders Legal Advice Clinic. She has received university teaching excellence awards, and holds a Graduate Certificate in Professional Education and Training (Flexible, Online & Distance Education)


Mr. Saru Arifin
Faculty of Law, Semarang State University

Saru Arifin obtained Law degree (LLB) from Faculty of Law UII Jogjakarta (2002), LLM from Postgraduate School of law Gadjah Mada University (2009). In 2010-present I serve as a Lecturer in International Law at the Faculty of Law of Semarang State University, Central Java Indonesia.

I have some research related to my interest research especially about the state borderland issues such as: Cross Border Approach as an Alternative Model for Border Area Development Policy (DIKTI-2012); Central Java Regional Government Cooperation with Foreign Parties Judging from Perspective International Law Treaty (LP2M UNNES, 2011). Population Migration and Its Implication to Border Defense and Security in Borderland Region of West Kalimantan-Sarawak, Malaysia (RISTEK-2009-2010); The implementation of the principle of Uti Possidetis in Determining Land Border Point of Indonesia-Malaysia (Thesis-2009); Study Anthropology Law Against Border Development Center in Sajingan, Sambas (CLDS FH UII-Sambas Regency, 2007).

In addition, I also active as a speaker various conferences both at home and abroad, such as: International Symposium on Business and Social Science (Taiwan, January 2013) with a Paper "Managing the Border in the Global World: Integration between Security and Prosperity approach"; Kuala Lumpur International Business, Economics, and Law Conference (April 2013; November 2012) with Paper "Trans Border Cooperation Between Indonesia and Malaysia and Its Implication to the Border Development"; International Symposium on Piere Bordeou (FH UNNES, Novermber 2012) with Paper Oil Palm Post Illegal Logging: A Critical Analyze on Border Environmental Development; Intrenational Conference on Human Rights in Islam (PSI UII, 2012) with Paper "Implication of the ICCPR Ratification to the Freedom of Religion in Indonesia; Dialog of Indonesiaan Law (HuMA and the Constitutional Court, 2012) with Paper "Paradigm Legal Policy Related to State Liability is in Fulfillment of the Constitutional Rights of Border Citizens"; International Syimposium on Climate Change in the Faculty of Law New Delhi University (2014) with a Paper entitle: Indonesian Disaster Law and Institutional Arrangement; Kualalumpur International Business, Economic and Law Conference (2016) with a paper entitle: University-Local Government Partnership in Strenthening the Good Governance.

In addition, the authors also active in various legal training such as: Workshop on Clinical Legal Education organized by ILRC in collaboration with the Open Society Justice (2010 and 2012); Teaching Training of Law and Human Rights in Higher Education organized by Pusham UII in collaboration with the Norwegian Human Rights Council (2010 and 2012). Human Rights Plan (2016) Conducted by Higher Education Ministrial. Some of the publications that have been generated from the results of research were published in Faculty of Law UII, Law Journal (2011; 2013); Journal of Law Issues Faculty of Law UNDIP (2011); Journal Constitution, the Constitutional Court (2010; 2011; 2013), and Law of Borderland State ( Book, 2014).


Mr. Peter Barnes
Parkside Chambers, Hong Kong

Peter Barnes is a barrister at Parkside Chambers, Hong Kong. He obtained his LLB in Law from the University of Adelaide in 1985 and an LLM (IP&IT Law) (Dist.) from the University of Hong Kong in 2008. He was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of South Australia in 1985.

Peter initially worked in private practice, specialising in commercial and civil law, until coming to Hong Kong in 1993. For a number of years thereafter, he worked with the late Mrs. Pam Baker on refugee cases, particularly those in relation to Vietnamese asylum seekers. 

In 1999, Peter co-founded the law firm Barnes & Daly, of which he remained a partner until 2013 when he left to join the bar. During his partnership at Barnes & Daly, Peter was involved in several well-known judicial review cases related to the Basic Law, including landmark challenges relating to the right of abode, in addition to a series of cases concerning the rights of refugees and asylum seekers (including those in relation to the Convention Against Torture). At the same time, Peter worked on civil claims and matrimonial disputes, appearing as an advocate in both the District Court and High Court.

Peter was called to the Hong Kong Bar in the beginning of 2014. At the bar, he continues his diverse practice, with particular emphasis on matrimonial and family disputes, constitutional and administrative law, judicial review and general commercial litigation.


Prof. Amy Barrow
Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Amy Barrow is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where she is a founding member of the Centre for Rights and Justice. She has a keen interest in inter-disciplinary research, and to date her research has largely focused on the intersection between public international law, gender, peace and security. Her research and teaching expertise includes Gender and Law, Human Rights and Socio-Legal Studies including empirical research methods. Much of Amy's research has broader public policy implications. In 2014, she was awarded a General Research Fund grant (2015-16) from the Research Grants Committee to conduct empirical research on 'Evaluating the Effectiveness of Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women in Hong Kong.' She currently serves as an Executive Committee Member of the Gender Research Centre, Hong Kong Institute of Asia Pacific Studies at CUHK. She is a member of the WILPF Academic Network, a think tank connecting academics and peace activists working on issues of gender, peace and security as well as a founding member of the Everywoman Everywhere Coalition, which grew out of the Initiative on Violence against Women at the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights. Along with Joy Chia, she co-edited a book on Gender, Violence and the State in Asia, which is due to be published by Routledge in May 2016.


Ms. Boshra Sadat Emami
Department of Law, Mofid University

Boshra Sadat Emami has a master's degree in Intellectual Property Law from Tehran University and is currently a Ph.D student of law in Mofid University. She also has years of experience in Islamic Jurisprudence as she has simultaneously studied in traditional Seminary of Qom (Hawza).

She is on the research department of Mofid University's Legal Clinic and the deputy of international relations at Center for Comparative Law Studies (CCLS).


Mr. Jason Buhi
School of Transnational Law, Peking University Shenzhen

Jason Buhi is a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese constitutional law at the University of Hong Kong, focusing on the theory and implementation of “one country, two systems.” His thesis endeavors to reconstruct and memorialize Macau's unique experience with constitutionalism and democratic development while offering new perspectives on interpreting the Macau Basic Law. Jason also serves as a C.V. Starr Law Lecturer at the Peking University School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen, Guangdong, where he teaches legal research and writing within the Transnational Legal Practice program. He is a qualified Maryland attorney, and was first introduced to China as a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar in 2007.


Mr. Jack Burke
School of Law, City University of Hong Kong


Prof. Camille Cameron
Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University

Camille Cameron is the Dean and Weldon Professor of Law at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She began her career in private practice in a commercial law firm in Halifax where she specialized in litigation. After ten years of law practice, she obtained an LLM degree at the University of Cambridge and then took up an academic appointment at City University in Hong Kong. Prior to joining the Schulich School of Law, she held academic posts as the Dean of Windsor Law School at the University of Windsor, Ontario and as a Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia where she also served terms as Associate Dean and as Director of the Civil Justice Research Group.

Her interests in comparative law and legal institutions in post-conflict societies led her to Cambodia in 1996 where she worked with a human rights group training judges and lay criminal defenders. She has since then worked as a consultant on similar international development projects in various countries, including Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Mongolia, Thailand, and Indonesia.

Dean Cameron's current research focuses on class actions, litigation funding, model litigant rules, and access to and the administration of civil justice. She is a member of an international research network that has just completed a book on collective litigation (Class Actions in Context: How Culture, Economics and Politics Shape Collective Litigation, Edward Elgar Publishing, May 2016). She has presented on these and related topics at national and international conferences.

Dean Cameron has served on numerous committees dealing with academic and senior administrative appointments and promotion, research integrity, reviews of academic departments and faculties, teaching quality and university governance. In Windsor she was the Chair and a member of the Board of Governors of Legal Aid Windsor, the Chair of the Advisory Board of Community Legal Aid and a member of the Board of Directors of Hiatus House. She has been a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia and a Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Oxford.


Prof. Stacy Caplow
Brooklyn Law School

A leader in the field of clinical legal education, Professor Caplow is the law school's first dean overseeing all aspects of clinical and experiential education. She teaches criminal law and several immigration courses, and co-directs the Safe Harbor Project. She assisted Hong Kong University in developing a clinical program, and spent a semester as a Fulbright Scholar at University College Cork, Ireland. In 2014, she taught at the Center for Law and Business in Tel Aviv, Israel.

She has been the president of the Clinical Legal Education Association and served on the board of editors of the Clinical Legal Review. She is a member of the Judge Robert A. Katzmann New York Immigrant Representation Study Group, has served as a Peer Reviewer for the U.S. Fulbright Commission, Law Discipline group, and is in the Board of the Refugee Reunification Project. As a member of a project to promote sustainable reforms in higher legal education, she spent time consulting at law schools in Armenia and Georgia.

She is the co-author of Multidefendant Criminal Cases: Federal Law and Procedure,and writes about criminal law, immigration law, and clinical education topics. Her most recent article about expanding pardons to immigrants was published in the Boston University Public Interest Law Journal.


Ms. Anne Carver
Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Mrs. Anne Carver (BA, MA (Cantab); Solicitor, Supreme Court of Judicature of Eng & Wales; Attorney, High Court of Lesotho; Attorney, High Court of Botswana; Solicitor, Supreme Court of Hong Kong)  was a Professional Consultant at the School of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong and is an Honorary Lecturer at the Law Faculty of the University of Hong Kong and at the School of Public Health, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Anne is an expert in corporate governance and company law, specialising in Hong Kong company law reform and comparative company law. She has written extensively on Hong Kong business law, corporate governance and is the author of Hong Kong Business Law and, with Say Goo, Corporate Governance - the Hong Kong Debate. Anne also writes on employment and trade union issues in Hong Kong as a benchmark for the ideology of the rule of law and normative values and is researching the significance of 'good faith' in Hong Kong commercial law.

Anne takes a particular interest in  how  law students learn effectively and enjoyably in  the 4 years of legal education that is the current model in Hong Kong.  In this context  she has interviewed many law students  on film to record  their different experiences  to try to understand what makes an effective law teacher and here presents a short film  from the perspective of the law students.


Ms. Jenny Chan
Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Ms. Jenny Chan (LLM, LLB and MSc in China Business Studies) is a Research Assistant at the Faculty of Law of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is also the co-author of the recently released book “Flipped Classrooms for Legal Education”. She has carried out extensive research on the legal education, including innovative assessment methods. Ms. Chan is also conducting research in other areas of law, such as Chinese investment law. Prior to taking up her current position, she was a manager working in a Japanese multinational company, specializing in logistics and trading.


Prof. Jane Ching
Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University

Jane Ching is Professor of Professional Legal Education at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University. She is also director of the school's Centre for Legal Education, which has grown exponentially from its genesis as a grassroots staff development forum into a major focus for innovation and research in her sector.

Jane's research and development work has led her far afield. She has led a project for the Solicitors Regulation Authority enabling paralegals to qualify as solicitors by demonstrating their competence in the workplace. She was also a key member of the Legal Education and Training Review research team which, in 2013, made recommendations for changes to the qualification structures for legal practitioners in England and Wales (http://letr.org.uk/). She has also worked on a professional legal education projects in the UK, Canada and Mauritius and as a member of the team which carried out the CEE consultation exercise for the Law Society of Hong Kong.


Prof. Wilson W.S. Chow
Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong

Wilson Chow is Associate Professor and Head, Department of Professional Legal Education, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong (HKU).

The first full-time local teacher appointed to the Department of Professional Legal Education in 1995, Mr Chow has spearheaded the curriculum reform and all development proposals in the HKU Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (PCLL) programme since 2001. He is the leader at the HKU Faculty of Law in developing and researching the use of experiential learning tools in professional legal education. The Standardized Clients programme is an example. His team has presented their empirical work at conferences held in Hong Kong, UK, Australia and the US and published the same in international refereed journals and edited volumes.


Prof. Anne-Marie Cotter
College of Law, University of Saskatchewan

Anne-Marie Cotter is presently Chair and Full Professor at the College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan. She has previously held the positions of Supervising Attorney and Administrative Law Judge, in addition to Executive Director and National Director. She has worked within the three sectors of the market place, namely the private sector, the public sector and the non-profit sectors.

Anne-Marie holds a PhD degree from Concordia University, a JD from Howard University School of Law, an M.A. in Public Policy and Public Administration from Concordia University, a Graduate Certificate from Concordia University and a B.A. from McGill University. She is fluent in English and French.

Anne-Marie has been published extensively by Oxford University Press, Ashgate Publications and Cavendish Publications. She is presently participating in three books, one on human rights, and two in collaboration with colleagues on refugee law and on disability law. These books aim to bridge the gap between academia and the legal profession by bringing a practical legal perspective to the teaching of law going forward into the practice of law.


Prof. Prashant Desai
National Law School of India University

Prashant Desai (B.A.LL.B(Hons) (2003); LL.M. (2005); Ph.D. (January 2014), all from Karnatak University, Dharwad) was a Lecturer at K.L.E.Society's B.V.Bellad Law College, Belagavi till June 2012. He was a Visiting Faculty at K.L.E. Society's Dr. M. S. Sheshgiri College of Engineering and Technology, Belagavi and also a Visiting Faculty at K.L.E.Society's Master of Business Administration, Belagavi. He joined the Law School as a Research Associate in June 2012. Presently he is working as Assistant Professor of Law and associated with HAL DPSU Chair in Business Laws. He is associated with Prof. O.V. Nandimath in providing legal consultancies for various DPSUs and organising capacity enhancement programmes for the employees of DPSUs, NABARD and other Banks. He is also associated in drafting Public Health Law for National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC) set up under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) of Government of India. He is actively involved in drafting Law on "Electronic Health Data Privacy & Confidentiality in India".

He is also visiting faculty in Intellectual Property Laws at NMIMS School of Business Management, Bengaluru. He is also visiting faculty in Constitutional Law, Information Technology Law & E-Governance  at Fiscal Policy Institute of India, Bangalore.

He has published several articles in various journals. He has presented several papers at the International, National & State level Seminars and Conferences.

His areas of specialization include Business & Trade Laws, Information Technology & Cyber Laws, Corporate Law, Constitutional Law, Banking Law, and Law of Torts.


Prof. Nima Dorji
Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law

Nima Dorji is a lecturer in law at the Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law, the first law school in the Kingdom of Bhutan. Prior to his appointment, he was a Legal Officer at the Bhutan National Legal Institute, the nation’s judicial training and research academy. Nima received his bachelor of arts / bachelor of laws from NALSAR University School of Law in Hyderabad, India, and his Master of Laws from the University of Canberra (Australia).


Mr. Denis Edwards
Middle Temple; Terra Firma Chambers; The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Denis Edwards is a member of the Law Faculty of CUHK, an Advocate in Scotland and a Barrister of the Middle Temple. He is a graduate of Glasgow University and Osgoode Hall Law School and has taught law in the UK, Germany, Italy, Hong Kong and the USA. Between 2004 and 2014, he was Treasurer of the Statute Law Society and continues to be a member of its Council.


Ms. Lindsay Ernst
Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong

Lindsay Ernst introduced Street Law to the University of Hong Kong, and to Hong Kong generally, in February 2014. After engaging 45 students and pro bono lawyers in the first initial Street Law training with the support of Georgetown Law Center's Professor Rick Roe and the D.C. Street Law Program, Lindsay Ernst led the law students trainees in  a semester-­‐‑long  programme  conducting  a legal  needs assessment, developing an interactive curriculum and leading a series of Street Law sessions aimed at empowering  marginalized  members of the community  and promoting the internalization of human rights norms within the Hong Kong context.

Based on the positive feedback and successful results of the initial Street Law training as well as subsequent inquiries from a variety of community-­‐‑based groups, Lindsay Ernst created a formal course at HKU, "Human Rights in Practice". The course aims to meet community demand for capacity building in human rights, expand experiential-­‐‑learning opportunities for law students, and engage students more deeply in the methodology and vision of Street Law as a means for advancing and supporting the international human rights regime both within Hong Kong and throughout the Asian region.

Lindsay Ernst is a US-­‐‑trained lawyer and educator who specializes in developing inter-­‐‑disciplinary experiential education opportunities focused on advancing social justice and human rights.  Currently, Lindsay identifies and develops human rights-­‐‑ based experiential learning opportunities with the Law Faculty at the University of Hong Kong.  She also teaches courses in legal research and writing, human rights research and methodology, and international human rights advocacy and practice.

Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong in 2012, Lindsay was the Head of Clinical Programmes at the Justice Centre Hong Kong (formerly the Hong Kong Refugee  Advice Centre)  where she designed and launched  the Refugee Legal Assistance Clinic  in collaboration  with the University of Hong  Kong,  Chinese University of Hong Kong, Brooklyn Law School and the University of New South Wales.  Prior to moving to Hong Kong in 2007, Lindsay was a Skadden Fellow with the Juvenile Rights Division of the Legal Aid Society of New York City, and an Adjunct Professor at Fordham University School of Law.  She has also served as a law clerk with the King's County Family Court in New York and the Public Defender Service in Washington DC.


Dr. Gigimon VS
National Law School of India University

Dr. Gigimon V.S. (B.A.L, LL.B., LL.M. Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor & Programme Co-ordiantor, IBA-CLE Chair at National Law School of India University, Bangalore

I have completed B.A.L, LL.B. (Five Years Integrated Course) from the University of Kerala, 2003 and in 2006, LL.M. from Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur. I was an Expert Member of Legal Education Committee of University Grant Commission – Committee on Transforming Legal Education. Prior to joining teaching I have worked as Research Assistant of Padmashree Prof. (Dr.) N.R. Madhava Menon. I have participated and organized a few International and National Moot Court Competitions and Seminars. I have also presented papers and actively participated in many international and national training programmes, workshops and seminars. My areas of interests are Alternatives Disputes Resolution System, Consumer Protection, Torts Law, Human Rights Law, Environmental Law and Right to Information Law. I have published number of articles in the journals and books of repute. I have worked as a Project Coordinator in Consumer Education in Schools of Kerala Project. I have also travelled to countries like Srilanka, UK (London) and Turkey to deliver lectures on various topics of Law. I hold membership in number of organizations like, Commonwealth Legal Education Association Asia-India Chapter, Forum of South Asian Clinical Law Teachers, Goa, Menon Institute of Legal Advocacy Training, Trivandrum, and Global Alliance for Justice Education, USA etc…


Prof. Kris Gledhill
University of Auckland Law School

Kris Gledhill was in practice as a barrister in the UK for some two decades before moving to New Zealand and to academia. He is currently an Associate Professor at both the University of Auckland Law School and AUT Law School, as he transitions to the latter. He has published several books, most recently Human Rights Acts: The Mechanisms Compared, Hart, Oxford, 2015. His co-edited text, The Teaching of Criminal Law: The Pedagogical Imperatives, Routledge, London, will be published at the end of this year.


Prof. Rick Glofcheski
Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong

Rick Glofcheski has been teaching law at the University of Hong Kong for more than 25 years, primarily tort law and labour law. He is the author of Tort Law in Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Sweet and Maxwell Asia, 3nd edn, 2012, 918 pp), and co-editor and co-author of Employment Law and Practice in Hong Kong (Sweet & Maxwell Asia, 2nd edn, forthcoming May 2016, 950 pp). In recognition of his achievements in teaching and learning, Rick was selected for the inaugural University Outstanding Teaching Award (2009), the inaugural University Distinguished Teaching Award (2010), the inaugural Hong Kong-wide University Grants Committee Teaching Excellence Award (2011). In 2016 he was recognized again with the award of University Distinguished Teacher. Rick has presented his work at conferences, workshops and seminars around the world.


Prof. Christoph A. Hafner
Department of English, City University of Hong Kong


Mr. Richard Hedlund
York Law School

I came to York Law School as a student in 2008 when it opened, and was part of its first cohort. YLS was the first law school in the UK to use the PBL method through the LLB curriculum. I graduated with a LLB in 2011, and then an LLM in 2012. Since 2012 I have worked towards a PhD, which I am currently writing up. I worked as a Teaching Assistant from 2012-2015, serving as a PBL tutor throughout the LLB programme, as well as teaching equity & trusts, company law and jurisprudence. In 2015, I started as a lecturer at Lincoln Law School, where I teach land law and equity & trusts. In 2013 I co-presented on PBL at a Legal Learning and Teaching conference in Hebron, the West Bank, Palestine, and the conference papers will be published in an anthology later this year.


Prof. Paula Hodgson
Centre for Learning Enhancement and Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Paula has been working in higher education since 1997, and served the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Auckland, University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University before joining CUHK. Her work covers professional development, programme assessment and teaching with learning technologies. Her research publications cover peer assessment, using learning technologies for teaching, learning and assessment, outcome-based education, and service leadership. Current research interest is pedagogies in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).


Ms Betty Hui
Centre for Learning Enhancement and Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Betty has been working in educational research since 2009. Before joining CUHK, she has provided research services in assessment experiences for first year students, NET teachers teaching in Hong Kong and currently in formative & summative assessment in university courses and MOOCs.


Prof. Swati Jhaveri
Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore

Swati joined NUS Law in August 2012. Swati previously taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. Her areas of research include public law and the law of torts. She has published in these areas in Public Law, the Tort Law Review and the International Journal of Constitutional Law. While at CUHK, she was awarded the Vice Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award. She is the co-author of the leading text on administrative law in Hong Kong (Hong Kong Administrative Law, LexisNexis 2013) and will co-author a text on Administrative Law in Singapore (LexisNexis, 2017).  At NUS she was awarded the Faculty and University's Annual Teaching Excellence Awards for the 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 Academic Years. Swati obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence (First Class Honours) and Bachelor of Civil Law (Distinction) from the University of Oxford. She previously practiced law at Allen & Overy, specialising in international commercial arbitration. She is a Solicitor of the Hong Kong SAR and England & Wales and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.


Eric Johnson
North Dakota University School of Law

Eric E. Johnson is an associate professor at the University of North Dakota School of Law. He has taught many subjects, including torts, intellectual property, sales, employment law, media and entertainment law, sports law, and professional writing and communications. He is the author of a free-access, open-source casebook, Torts: Cases and Context (eLangdell Press), which focuses on providing clear, direct explanations of concepts, using cases and other primary-source readings in a supplementary role.

Students have twice selected Eric as the keynote speaker for UND Law's graduation banquet. His writing on legal pedagogy has appeared in the Journal of Legal Education.

Eric's main scholarly interests are intellectual property and the intersection of law and science. Eric's publications include the Boston University Law Review, the University of Illinois Law Review, and New Scientist magazine. His work regarding the economics of social sharing and intellectual-property rights was selected for the Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum. And his work regarding law, risk, and particle-physics experimentation was the focus of a two-page article in Physics World magazine.

Eric received his B.A. from the Plan II program at the University of Texas at Austin and his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was an instructor in legal reasoning and argument. After law school, Eric was a litigation associate at Irell & Manella in Los Angeles, where he worked on a variety of intellectual-property and entertainment-industry matters. Eric later worked as in-house counsel for Fox Cable Networks in Los Angeles, negotiating and drafting deals for the Fox Sports Net television networks.

Outside of his legal career, Eric was a radio disc jockey, a stand-up comic, and a consultant at an early-stage internet start-up. In 2005, he was awarded a patent on a headrest he invented for persons suffering from Parkinson's Disease.


Ms. Patty Kamvounias
University of Sydney Business School

Patty Kamvounias has been admitted to practice as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia and is now a Senior Lecturer at The University of Sydney Business School where she teaches a range of subjects including competition and consumer law. Patty has been the convenor of the ‘Law for Non Law Students’ Interest Group of the Australasian Law Teachers’ Association (ALTA) and is currently ALTA ’s School representative.


Ms. Queenie Lai
Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Ms. Queenie Lai joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law in 2010 as Professional Consultant and specialises in teaching corporate law and commercial practice at postgraduate level. As course leader, she has taught and designed the curriculum for a range of PCLL and LLM courses, including Corporate Finance, Writing and Drafting Commercial Documents (Mergers & Acquisitions) and Business and the Law in Hong Kong. In 2015, Ms. Lai was awarded the Faculty of Law's inaugural Excellent Teacher Award in recognition of her commitment to excellence in teaching.

Prior to joining CUHK, Ms. Lai practiced as a corporate finance lawyer at Clifford Chance's various international offices including Hong Kong, Shanghai and London. She assisted Chinese and multinational corporate clients on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and participated in a variety of initial public offerings in Hong Kong for offshore companies. After completion of her Masters of Law degree in U.S.A., she joined Clifford Chance's London headquarters private equity group and advised major international private equity house on its various acquisitions and disposals in Europe.

Due to her innate interest in teaching and training, Ms. Lai subsequently joined Slaughter & May, London as Legal Corporate Training Manager, where she had overall responsibility for firmwide corporate training. She structured the firm's legal and skill-based corporate training program and co-delivered legal seminars and corporate/M&A workshops to trainees, overseas lawyers and interns.

Ms. Lai received her Bachelors and Masters of Arts in Law degree from the University of Cambridge and was a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship award recipient. She also received her Masters of Law (Securities Regulation) with Distinction from the Georgetown University as a Rotary International Scholar.

Ms. Lai has studied and practised in Cambridge, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Washington D.C. and Shanghai. She was admitted as a Solicitor in the High Court of Hong Kong and as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.


Ms. Tania Leiman
Flinders Law School

Tania Leiman is Associate Dean (Teaching & Learning) at Flinders Law School, where she is also Director of First Year Studies and a supervising solicitor in the Flinders Legal Advice Clinic. She currently teaches tort law. She has received university teaching excellence awards and an ALTC citation. She holds a Graduate Certificate in Education (Higher Education). Her current research focus includes the future of the legal profession in the digital age, big data and the law, and the legal implications of autonomous vehicles.


Mr. Marc Limon
Universal Human Rights Group

Marc Limon is the Executive Director of the Universal Human Rights Group. He previously worked as a diplomat (rank of Counsellor) at the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council from the body's establishment in 2006 until the end of 2012. This included participating in the negotiations on the institution-building package (which determined how the Council would operate), on the Council's mid-term review, and on a wide-range of thematic and country-specific issues over the course of twenty-one regular sessions and nineteen special sessions.

During his time as a diplomat at the Council, Marc consistently worked to improve the body's effectiveness, visibility and accessibility. This included working on the establishment of three UN Trust Funds designed to increase the participation of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Council and its mechanisms. It also included establishing a cross-regional political group at the Council called the Article 4 Dialogue, designed to strengthen dialogue as well as the output of the body. During his time as a representative of a Member state of the Council, Marc was lead negotiator on nine different UN resolutions dealing with issues including human rights and climate change, human rights and the environment, freedom of assembly and association, and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Between 2006 and 2012, Marc also prepared reports for and interacted with all UN human rights treaty bodies, drafted national reports under the Universal Periodic Review, and organised five Special Procedure country missions. He therefore possesses first-hand knowledge of the international human rights system, how it works, its weaknesses and the challenges it faces to improve its effectiveness.

In addition to his work on human rights policy, Marc was also a lead negotiator during the COP15 and COP16 climate change negotiations in Copenhagen and Cancun, securing the inclusion of human rights principles and safeguards in the Cancun Agreements. He also played a key role in the establishment of the Climate Vulnerable Forum, a head of state level grouping of the world's most environmentally vulnerable states. Finally, he chaired negotiations in the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on the strengthening of United Nations support for SIDS, and was facilitator of the SIDS group during negotiations leading up to UNCTAD XIII (2012).

Prior to coming to Geneva, Marc worked as a government affairs and media relations consultant in Brussels, focusing on EU policy-making in the areas of international relations, human rights, trade and the environment. He also advised a range of clients, from the public and private sectors, on communications and public relations.


Ms. Yingxiang Long
Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University

Yingxiang Long is a PhD student in Nottingham Law School. She is also a lecturer in Harbin University of Commerce and a practicing lawyer specialized in international commercial legal service in China. She is interested in establishing a new independent course for international commercial lawyers.


Prof. Michael Lower
Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Michael Lower has been an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 2007. His teaching and research interests lie in the area of Hong Kong Land Law with a particular emphasis on the law concerning ownership of the family home. He has extensive experience of the use of digital technologies (podcasts, blogs and ebooks) to support his face-to-face teaching of Land Law. He is now conducting research that looks at the integration of these technologies and discussion fora within a blended learning environment. The aim is to look at how a Community of Inquiry can be established within an undergraduate law course and at what this means for the development of students' levels of engagement, knowledge and skills and even for their sense of their emerging identity as legal scholars and practitioners.


Prof. Katherine Lynch
Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong


Mr. Azan Marwah
Gilt Chambers, Hong Kong

Upon being called to the Bar, Azan served as a judicial assistant to the Court of Final Appeal. Since returning to the private Bar, Azan has developed a broad practice, appearing at all levels of the courts. He advises in wide variety of areas, particularly in the areas of Family & Children, Employment, Labour & Discrimination, Public & Administrative law and Human Rights. He also acts as a mediator.

Prior to being called to the Bar, Azan worked at the Los Angeles Public Defender's   Office's juvenile and appellate practices. Before that, Azan also regularly acted as a Court Mediator at the Los Angels County Courts in civil harassment, landlord and tenant, and commercial contracts disputes.

Azan has been an Honourary Legal Adviser on child protection to Mother's Choice and PathFinders since 2011. Azan is also a member of the Domestic Workers Roundtable's Law Enforcement Working Group.

Azan was appointed and has served as Hong Kong's National Administrator for the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition since 2015.

He is the co-author of Hong Kong Family Court Practice (the 'Red Book') (2ed) (2015) and Family Law Practice and Procedure in Hong Kong (2ed) (2015), the current editor of Atkin's Court Forms Hong Kong (Family volume) (2015), and a contributor to various other legal publications.

Azan regularly gives Continuing Professional Development lectures to solicitors on Family and Child law. He has also guest-lectured at the University of Hong Kong on criminal law and procedure. He has also run law clinics at Mother's Choice together with the University of Hong Kong.


Prof.Mohammad Mahdi Meghdadi
Department of Law, Mofid University

Dr. Mohammad Mahdi Meghdadi is associate professor of law at Mofid University. Having a Ph.D degree in Private Law from Tehran University, he has done tremendous amount of research and fieldwork in Human Rights, Clinical Legal Education and Comparative Legal Studies. He also has established the Legal Clinic of Mofid University (MULC) in 2006, aiming to give free legal aid to disadvantaged classes of society and to train law students in practical legal skills.

Dr. Meghdadi is currently the director of Mofid University's Private Law Department and on the board of directors of Center for Comparative Law Studies (CCLS).


Mr. Paul McKeown
Northumbria University

Paul McKeown is a senior lecturer and solicitor at Northumbria University, UK, working in the award winning Student Law Office. Paul has worked in clinical legal education since 2007 supervising students conducting live client casework in the areas of employment, housing and general civil litigation. He is also a board member for the European Network for Clinical Legal Education (ENCLE) and is responsible for leading the research working group. Paul regularly presents and publishes in the field of clinical legal education and his current research interests relate to student motivations and values. He is also interested in issues around access to justice including the provision of support to litigants in person. Paul is a member of the steering committee of the Legal Education and Professional Skills Research Interest Group at Northumbria Law School and regularly reviews articles for the International Journal of Clinical Legal Education.


Prof. Malcolm Merry
Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong


Dr. Angela Melville
Flinders Law School

Angela Melville (B.A.; B.Soc.Sc, Hons; PhD Sociology/Anthropology) is a Senior Lecturer in the Flinders Law School, Flinders University in Adelaide. Her main research interest is the sociology of the legal profession, including stratification within the profession, legal education, relations between lawyers and their clients, and the delivery of legal services. She also has an research interest in empirical socio-legal research methods, and she has taught various socio-legal research methods courses for over 15 years.

She is the former Scientific Director at the International Institute for Sociology of Law, in Onati in Spain. She has also held previous posts in the School of Law, University of Manchester; Newcastle Centre for Family Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; Justice Policy Research Centre, University of Newcastle, Australia; Justice Research Centre, Sydney. Angela is currently involved in a collaboration with the University of Melbourne to set up a network of researchers to examine the legal professions. Her past research has involved funded projects with the Scottish Executive (no-fault clinical negligence), Nuffield Foundation (process of resolving clinical neligence claims); Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (solicitor professional negligence and compensation funds); Scottish Faculty of Advocates (economic structure of the Faculty); Legal Aid Commission of England and Wales (legal services to legally aided family law clients in England and Wales); Motor Accidents Authority of NSW (impact of reform of 3rd party compulsory insurance regulations); Commonwealth of Australia's Attorney General (ADR in family law; legal services to legally aided family law clients in Australia).


Ms. Piya Muqit
Justice Centre Hong Kong


Prof. Michael H.K. Ng
The University of Hong Kong

Michael Ng is Assistant Professor, Department of Professional Legal Education, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong (HKU).

Dr Ng joined the HKU Faculty of Law as Assistant Professor in 2012. An active researcher in experiential legal education, Dr Ng's works on empirical study of legal education have been published in international refereed journals, edited volumes and presented in international conferences. He is a core member at the HKU Faculty of Law in developing and researching the use of such teaching and assessment tools for experiential legal education as Standardized Clients.


Mr. Christian D. Pangilinan
School of Transnational Law, Peking University Shenzhen

Christian Pangilinan is Director of Transnational Legal Practice and Academic Support at Peking University School of Transnational Law (“STL”). At STL, he implements an intensive first-year legal research and writing program employing American law for students who predominantly speak English as a second-language. He has been a C.V. Starr Lecturer at STL since 2013. Prior to joining STL, he provided legal aid to refugees and asylum seekers in Tanzania and worked for the Georgetown University Law Center’s Graduate Programs. He holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, an M.A. from the University of York, and a B.A. from the University of British Columbia.


Prof. Daniel Pascoe
City University of Hong Kong, School of Law

Dr Daniel Pascoe is Assistant Professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, where he teaches criminal law, criminal procedure and legal research and writing. Dr Pascoe holds degrees in Law, Asian Studies and Criminology from the Australian National University and from the University of Oxford.


Prof. Michael Peil
Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law

Michael Peil is Vice Dean of the Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law, the first law school in the Kingdom of Bhutan. Prior to this, he served as Associate Dean for International Programmes at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law (USA) and, for five years, as Executive Director of the International Law Students Association (ILSA). He has also taught law and lectured in several countries in Europe and Asia. He received a bachelor of arts from Wake Forest University (USA) and a juris doctor from Cornell Law School (USA).


Prof. Sanoj Rajan
School of Law, Ansal University

Sanoj Rajan is an academician with extensive experience working in multiple academic/research institutions in various countries. Along with being the Professor and Dean at the School of Law, Ansal University, he is an Affiliate Expert with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA. He is also an honorary visiting faculty for the International Criminal Justice program offered by the International Christian University at Kinshasa, Congo. His other present engagements include the Founding Coordinator for Statelessness Network for Asia Pacific, visiting faculty for International Law at Foreign Service Institute under Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India and Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi.

His former academic associations include Associate Director for Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR) at the Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA and the head of the Academic Programs Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross for the South Asian countries and Iran. He has also worked as the Professor and Head of School of Law at North Cap University Gurgaon and has taught law at University of Kerala during the initial period of his career. A Commonwealth Scholar, Prof. Rajan holds Ph.D., LLM in International Law, Mst. in Human Rights (Oxford) (expected), and an MBA in Personnel Management from NIPM.

He has delivered talks on International Law and Human Rights topics at more than 45 institutions in ten countries including Canada, USA, Sweden, Netherlands, Australia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Nepal, Kenya, Iran, and India. He holds the rare distinction of being the first Indian academician to be invited to deliver a lecture on International Criminal Law at the International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands.


Prof. Dr. Muamar Salameh
Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University

Muamar Salameh is the Chair of LAW department and Assistant professor of public international law at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (PMU) since 2014. Previously, he was the academic accreditation advisor and assistant professor of international public law in several UAE universities. Dr. Muamar is a member of scientific committee of "European Federation for Freedom of Belief" (FOB).

Degrees held:

  1. PhD international order and human rights, University of Rome "La Sapienza" Rome-Italy 2010
  2. M.S European law, University of Rome Tre, Rome-Italy 2004
  3. B.S Law, University of Al Albayt, Jordan 2001

Dr. Muamar's current fields of research include Human rights, Palestinian – Israeli conflict, public international law, constitutional law.


Anne Scully-Hill
Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Anne Scully‐Hill, LL.B. (Hons), LL.M. (Lond), lectured in law in London for several years before moving to Hong Kong where she has been Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong for the past ten years. Anne's current research interests lie in legal education in a common law tradition, especially the ways in which students engage with and develop their own legal analysis and writing; family law, specifically in relation to domestic violence, ancillary relief, the reform of child custody laws in Hong Kong; and administrative law. She has undertaken empirical research into the ways in which law students develop their legal knowledge and skills, and has incorporated these findings into her teaching as well as publishing in journals such as Legal Education. She is also the author of several articles and commentaries on family law and child law including publications in The International Survey of Family Law, the Hong Kong Law Journal, the Cambridge Law Journal, the International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, the Child & Family Law Quarterly and the Journal of Social Welfare & Family Law and various family law‐related commentaries in Hong Kong. In addition to being the founding Associate Dean with responsibility for the establishment and development of the undergraduate degree at the Law Faculty at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Anne is also a member of the Hong Kong Law Society's Family Law Committee; the Organizing Committee for the Children's Issues Forum; the Everywoman Everywhere Regional Working Group for the Carr Center at the Kennedy School, Harvard University; the Editorial Board of the Hong Kong Lawyer; the Hong Kong Collaborative Practice Group; the CEDR Asia Pacific Practice Group; and is an accredited mediator in Hong Kong and in London. She is also an adviser to the Hong Kong Ombudsman.


Mr. Adam Severson
Justice Centre Hong Kong

Adam Severson (Senior Legal Advisor) is a U.S. qualified lawyer from Colorado who began his career representing asylum seekers in the U.S. Since 2012 he has provided direct representation to asylum seekers in the UNHCR’s Refugee Status Determination process in Egypt, Thailand, and Indonesia. He was most recently in Egypt working with a local NGO to establish an RSD legal services programme.


Mr. Isaac Shaffer
Justice Centre Hong Kong

Isaac Shaffer (Protection Claimant Services Co-Manager) is a UK qualified lawyer with over 8 years’ experience of directly representing asylum seekers and refugees before Courts and Tribunals. Before working for the Justice Centre, he worked for Wilson Solicitors LLP, one of the UK’s leading legal aid immigration firms, and for Refugee Legal Centre, a UK NGO providing direct representation for asylum seekers and refugees. He has particular experience in litigation, including complex applications for Judicial Review. He was co-convener of the UK’s Immigration Legal Practitioner Association’s specialist Asylum Working Group and was active in campaigns to preserve legal aid and access to justice. He is also a founding member of one of the UK’s leading independent publishing houses, Comma Press, and still sits upon its Board.


Dr. Rajesh Sharma
Justice and Legal Studies, RMIT University


Prof. Natalie Skead
University of Western Australia

Natalie Skead is an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) in the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Australia. She has received multiple Faculty, University and national awards for teaching excellence.   Natalie completed her doctorate on the confiscation of proceeds of crime and has published extensively in the areas of legal education, property law and equity and trusts. She is part of the Smart Casual project team which is funded by the Australian Federal Office for Learning and Teaching to develop professional development resources for Australian sessional law teachers.


Ms. Virginia Tam
K&L Gates, Hong Kong

Virginia Tam is a partner of K&L Gates, a global law firm with around 2,000 lawyers in 47 offices. Ms. Tam graduated from Columbia Law School and is qualified to practise New York and Hong Kong law. She has worked as a corporate and securities lawyer for more than 15 years in Los Angeles, New York, Shanghai and Hong Kong. She focuses on mergers and acquisitions of publicly-traded companies that involve multiple jurisdictions.


Prof. Lisa Webley
Westminster Law School

Lisa Webley is Professor of Empirical Legal Studies and director of the Centre on the Legal Profession at Westminster Law School, University of Westminster, UK. She also holds a Senior Research Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies University of London and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. Lisa leads TEAM LERN the Legal Education Research Network mentoring scheme that matches legal education researchers with research mentors to support them through aspects of their legal education research projects: http://ials.sas.ac.uk/lern/lern_team_access.htm, she is also a member of the Law Teacher editorial board. She teaches public law, family law, and empirical research methods and gives occasional lectures on the sociology of the legal profession, innovation in legal practice and alternative dispute resolution. Her research interests include gender and diversity in the legal profession, legal education, legal ethics, family law and access to justice and she regularly undertakes funded empirical research on these areas. She serves on the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the Law Society of England and Wales and is Secretary of the International Association of Legal Ethics. You may find out more information about Lisa here: http://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/webley-lisa


Prof. Sarah Wilson
York Law School

Sarah Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in Law at York Law School, University of York in the UK. She qualified in Law at Cardiff Law School and then commenced studies in Modern British History gaining a MA (History) and PhD (History) before undertaking posts in numerous UK universities. Her key research interests lie in Financial Crime and Financial Regulation and Trust Law, and modern British history. The latter forms the basis of Sarah's 'Law and History' combination of traditional Legal History and Modern British History which examines interactions between law and society, continuity and change. 

Sarah has published widely in Financial Crime and the sphere of Financial Law and Regulation broadly (which includes Banking Law and Regulation more specifically), and she is also the author of Todd and Wilson's Textbook on Trusts and Equity (OUP, 2015). Her monograph The Origins of Modern Financial Crime: Historical foundations and current problems in Britain (Abingdon: Routledge (Criminology), 2014) does provide a multi-disciplinary analysis of financial crime from c 1830 to the present, but it places equal if not greater emphasis on encouraging greater utilisation of history and historical methodology for research and teaching in Law.

Sarah's interest in 'Law and History' is deeply embedded in her approaches to teaching. More latterly this has been pursued through a dedicated undergraduate 'Law and History' module, which has now been adapted for the TPG curriculum. However, a 'Law and History' approach has always been an aspect of her teaching within the wide sweep of Financial Law and Business Law more broadly, as well as in Equity and Trusts. She is passionate about promoting the benefits of greater integration of history into the undergraduate law curriculum, reflecting both the vocational value of the undergraduate Law degree, and also the popularity of this undergraduate programme for students wishing to pursue a variety of careers.


Prof. Lutz-Christian Wolff
Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Lutz-Christian Wolff is Wei Lun Professor of Law and the Dean of the Graduate School of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was the recipient of the CUHK Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award in 2007 and 2011 and of the CUHK Education Award in 2013. He has authored numerous books and articles in the areas of Chinese and international business law, comparative law and private international law. His most recent work includes “Flipped Classrooms for Legal Education” (with Jenny Chan) (2016), “Mergers & Acquisitions in China – Law and Practice, 5th ed.” (2015); “The Law of Cross-border Business Transactions” (2013); “Offshore Holdings for Global Investments of Multinational Enterprises”, Journal of Business Law (6/2015), p. 445; “Flexible Choice-of-Law Rules: Panacea or Oxymoron?”, 10 Journal of Private International Law (December 2014), p. 413.


Prof. Mimi Zou
Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Mimi Zou is Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law at CUHK. She also holds a number of appointments at CUHK as Associate Director of the Centre for Rights and Justice, Assistant Professor (by courtesy) of the Jockey Club Institute of Ageing, and Core Group member of the Centre for Bioethics. She teaches Chinese employment law, Chinese contract law, and elder law. Prior to joining CUHK, Prof. Zou taught at the University of Oxford, Utrecht University, and the University of Sydney. She received her DPhil and BCL degrees from the University of Oxford. Prof Zou was the winner of CUHK Faculty of Law's Innovation in Teaching Award in 2015 for her project on 'Law and Ethics in an Ageing Society': elderlawinhongkong.blogspot.com