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China, Southeast Asia and International Economic Law Workshop:

Contemporary Issues and Future Prospects Monday, 8 December 2014

Lee Sheridan Conference Room, Bukit Timah Campus, National University of Singapore

7 December 2014

7.30pm By invitation only Welcome Dinner Royal China @ Raffles Hotel Arcade

8 December 2014

8.30am – 9.00am Registration (Lee Sheridan Conference Room, Eu Tong Sen Building)

9.00am – 9.20am Introduction Associate Professor Wang Jiangyu, DEPUTY DIRECTOR

CENTRE FOR ASIAN LEGAL STUDIES, FACULTY OF LAW NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

Opening Remarks Professor Andrew Harding, DIRECTOR CENTRE FOR ASIAN LEGAL STUDIES & ASIAN LAW INSTITUTE FACULTY OF LAW, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE Professor Zeng Huaqun, DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW INSTITUTE SCHOOL OF LAW, XIAMEN UNIVERSITY

9.20am – 10.10am Panel 1: China and S.E Asia: General International (Economic Law) Issues I Chair: Professor Andrew Harding

China’s Position in International Investment Agreement Professor Zeng Huaqun, DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW INSTITUTE, SCHOOL OF LAW, XIAMEN UNIVERSITY

The South China Sea Disputes Professor Robert Beckman, DIRECTOR CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL LAW AND FACULTY OF LAW, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

How China interprets international treaties in the post-WWII regional order: The South China Sea complex Dr. Tseng Hui-Yi, Katherine, RESEARCH ASSOCIATE EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE, FACULTY OF LAW, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

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10.10am – 11.00am Panel 2: China and S.E Asia: General International (Economic Law) Issues II Chair: Associate Professor Wang Jiangyu

ASEAN-China Economic Relations and International Economic Law Associate Professor Michael Ewing-Chow CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL LAW AND FACULTY OF LAW, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

China, in the rapid development of Asia Pacific Economic Integration. Dr. Chiang Min-Hua, VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE, FACULTY OF LAW, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

China and Southeast Asia: Some General International Economic Law Issues Professor Tony Anghie, VISITING PROFESSOR, FACULTY OF LAW NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE AND S.J QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

11.00am – 11.15am Morning Tea (Outside Lee Sheridan Conference Room, Eu Tong Sen Building)

11.15am – 11.25am Welcome Address Professor Simon Chesterman DEAN FACULTY OF LAW, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

11.25am – 11.30am Group Photo

11.30am – 12.30pm Panel 3: China, Southeast Asia and Bilateral Investment Treaties

Chair: Assistant Professor Lin Lin

National Security Review Issues in China-US BIT Negotiations Professor Chen Huiping SCHOOL OF LAW, XIAMEN UNIVERSITY

China-Africa BITs: Current State of Play and Future Prospects Han Xiuli SCHOOL OF LAW, XIAMEN UNIVERSITY

Asia’s BITs: An Indonesian Perspective Professor Hikmahanto Juwana

UNIVERSITAS INDONESIA

Recent Development in China’s BITs and the Implications for China-ASEAN Economic Relations Dr. Tong Yueting, Sarah, SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE, FACULTY OF LAW, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

12.30am – 2.00pm Lunch (Staff Lounge @ Federal Portico, Federal Building)

2.00pm – 3.00pm Panel 4: Recent Legal Developments in S.E Asian and China

Chair: Dr. Yvonne Wong

Legal Development in Myanmar: Constitutional Law Professor Andrew Harding CENTRE FOR ASIAN LEGAL STUDIES, FACULTY OF LAW, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

Issues on China’s Anti-tax-avoidance Rules on Indirect Equity Transfer by Non-resident Enterprises

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Cai Qinghui SCHOOL OF LAW, XIAMEN UNIVERSITY

The World Bank’s Doing Business Indicators: the Case of Singapore Assistant Professor Lin Lin FACULTY OF LAW, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

Interpretation of China’s WTO Accession Protocol by the Appellate Body: A Critique Fang Dong SCHOOL OF LAW, XIAMEN UNIVERSITY

3.00pm – 3.50pm Panel 5: Financial and Law Issues in China and S.E Asia

Chair: Professor Chen Huiping

The Internationalization of RMB: A Chance or Challenge Chen Xin SCHOOL OF LAW, XIAMEN UNIVERSITY

Singapore’s Road to an International Financial Centre Associate Professor Dora Neo, DIRECTOR CENTRE FOR BANKING AND FINANCE LAW, FACULTY OF LAW, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

Legal Developments in Myanmar: Banking and Financial Law Dr. Yvonne Wong, SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW CENTRE FOR ASIAN LEGAL STUDIES, FACULTY OF LAW, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

3.50pm – 4.10pm Afternoon Tea (Outside Lee Sheridan Conference Room, Eu Tong Sen Building)

4.10pm – 5.10pm Panel 6: The Legal Environment for China – ASEAN Cooperation

Chair: Professor Han Xiuli

The Politics of International Economic Law in China-ASEAN Relations Associate Professor Wang Jiangyu, CENTRE FOR ASIAN LEGAL STUDIES, FACULTY OF LAW, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

China-ASEAN Cooperation on Foreign Direct Investment and Energy Supply Dr Zhao Hong, VISITING SENIOR FELLOW INSTITUTE OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES

Some Legal Issues on China-ASEAN Maritime Economic Cooperation Zhu Xiaoqin

SCHOOL OF LAW, XIAMEN UNIVERSITY

Remedy for Climate Change Damage: A China-ASEAN Cooperation Perspective Gong Yu SCHOOL OF LAW, XIAMEN UNIVERSITY Conclusion of Korea-China FTA Negotiations: Cooked Well Done or Rare? Professor Won-Mog Choi, VISITING PROFESSOR, FACULTY OF LAW NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE AND WTO LAW CENTER, EWHA WOMANS UNIVERSITY

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5.10 pm – 6.00pm Concluding Remarks and Discussions for Future Cooperation Moderator: Associate Professor Wang Jiangyu

6.00pm – 6.10pm Group Photo

6.20pm Bus to Workshop Dinner (by invitation only) Prego’s @ Fairmont Hotel

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Profiles (alphabetical order by family name)

Tony Anghie is the Samuel D. Thurman Professor of International Law at the S.J. Quinney School of Law, University of Utah. He is currently a Visiting Professor at NUS Law School. His research interests include public and private international law, human rights and international economic law and the history and theory of international law. He is the author of Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law (CUP 2005); he serves on the editorial or advisory boards of various journals, including the Asian Journal of International Law, Humanity, and International Theory. He is a member of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) network of scholars.

Robert Beckman is the Director of the Centre for International Law (CIL), a university-wide research centre at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also an Associate Professor at the NUS Faculty of Law, where he has taught for 37 years. Professor Beckman currently teaches Ocean Law & Policy in Asia and International Regulation of Shipping at the NUS Faculty of Law. Professor Beckman lectures on law of the sea in the summer programme at the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law & Policy in Rhodes, Greece, and in the International Maritime Boundary Workshops organized by CIL and the

International Boundaries Research Unit (IBRU) of Durham University. Professor Beckman received his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin and his LL.M. from Harvard Law School. He is also an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, and a member of the National Executive Committee of CSCAP Singapore.

Qinghui Cai is Associate Professor of International Law, XIAMEN University Law School, P.R.China, where he is also working as Editor of Chinese Journal of International Economic Law (2000 - ). He is also Member of Committee on Law and Policy of Chinese Association of Electronic Commerce (2004 - ); Standing Deputy Director of Committee on International Law of Fujian Law Society, China (2005 - ); Member of Committee on Panel of Fujian Association of Economic Commerce, China (2008- ). From 2012 on, he is also Council Member of Fujian and China’s Fiscal and Tax Law Seminar. Prior to taking his current post at Xiamen University, he conducted research several universities including

the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He holds a PhD. (Xiamen University), M.A. (Xiamen University), and B.A. (Xiamen University). During his academic experience in Xiamen University, he received a number of honours, such as Third Prize for Excellent Social Scientific Works, Awarded by Fujian Province of China (2005); Third Prize for Excellent Legal Publications, Awarded by Fujian Society of Legal Jurisprudence of China (2004), etc. His research focuses on International Economic Law, International Tax Law, International Trade Law, and Electronic Commerce Law.

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Huiping Chen is Professor of international law at Xiamen University Law School. She received her Ph.D degree in international law from Xiamen University in 1999. She teaches international investment law, public international law and international human rights law. She was visiting research fellow at the East Asian Institute of National University of Singapore during June to September 2005, visiting scholar at Faculty of Law of Leiden University (the Netherlands) during 2000-2001, Fulbright Researcher at Georgetown University Law Center (USA) during 2006-2007, and Freeman Fellow at the University of Illinois during

2012-2013. She is Secretary-General of the Administrative Council of Xiamen Academy of International Law and deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Society of International Economic Law. She has varieties of publications focusing on international investment law.

Xin Chen is an associate Professor of International Law at Xiamen University School of Law, China. She currently teaches the International Economic Law, the International Trade Law and the Financial Law. Her research interests focus on the world trade relations, the dispute settlement system of WTO and the international financial law. From August, 2011 to June, 2012, she attended the Freeman Program as visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Some of her publications are: A Study on the International Regulation of Financial Derivatives Trading(Peking University Press, 2006); A

Research on the Treaty Interpretation in WTO Dispute Settlement-Judicial Restraint vs. Judicial Activism(Peking University Press, 2010); An Analysis of the Financial Prudential Exception in the Investment Treaties( Modern Law Science, 2013).

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. 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.

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Min-Hua Chiang is visiting research fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. She was awarded a doctorate in International Political Economy with distinction (Très honorable avec félicitations) from the Université Pierre-Mendès-France in Grenoble, France in 2008. Before joining EAI, she held research positions at the Institute of International Relations, Chengchi University (2009), Taiwan External Trade Development Council (2010) and Commerce Development Research Institute (2011) in Taipei. Her research interest includes regional economic integration, cross-strait relations and East Asian economic development.

Won-Mog CHOI is Visiting Professor of NUS, currently teaching the World Trade Law. He is a professor of Ewha Womans University and director of the WTO Law Center at Seoul. He was the President of the Korea Society of International Economic Law and is the editor-in-chief of the Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law. Professor Choi is a member of editorial board of many journals including the Journal of International Economic Law. He received his legal education in Korea (SNU, LL.B/M.P.A.) and the US (Georgetown, LL.M./S.J.D.). Won-mog has been providing law and policy advice to most of trade negotiations in which Korea has been

participating so far. Prior to joining faculty of Ewha, he worked for the Foreign Ministry of Korea as a diplomatic officer in charge of numerous trade issues. He published more than 80 books or articles and is also widely recognized as a renowned columnist in Korea. His researches on like products in WTO Agreement and FTA issues are recognized as authoritative to be collected in the Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law.

Michael Ewing-Chow is an Associate Professor and WTO Chair at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS) as well as the Head, Trade/Investment Law & Policy at the Centre for International Law (CIL), NUS. He has First Class Honours degree in law from NUS and a Masters from Harvard Law School. Michael worked in Allen & Gledhill before joining NUS where he started the first World Trade Law course in Singapore and was involved in the negotiations for some of Singapore’s early FTAs. He has been a consultant to the Singapore Government, the ADB, ASEAN, the UN, the World Bank and the WTO. Michael has advised government officials all over the world on trade and

investment law as well as corporate governance. He also assisted the Singapore Company Law Reform and Frameworks Committee in 2001 with a major overhaul of corporate law and in 2008 was appointed to a Working Group of the Steering Committee to review of the Companies Act. He has taught in a number of universities in Asia, Europe and Latin America and was a Fellow at NYU. Michael also volunteers with NGOs and co-founded aidha, an NGO which provides financial education and microfinance opportunities for domestic migrant workers. For his work, he was the awarded the Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2007. He has received several Teaching Excellence Awards and was awarded the Inspiring Mentor Award in 2009.

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Fang Dong finished his J.S.D Programme at the School of Law at Xiamen University on September 2003 and now serve as an associate professor of international law at the same school. The main subjects of his teaching and research work are International Commercial Law and WTO Law. In recent years, he has published many articles and books in his research area. His research work has gotten financial supports from the National Social Science Foundation of China and the Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China. He now is deputy secretary-general of Chinese Society of

International Economic Law (CSIEL). He also serves as an arbitrator with the Xiamen Arbitration Commission. Professor Fang was a visiting scholar at Washington University Law School in 2009-2010.

Gong Yu is currently an Associate Professor at Xiamen University School of Law. He obtained LL.B from East China University of Political Science & Law and Ph. D from Xiamen University. He was once a visiting scholar at University College London under the Erasmus Mundus Europe Asia Programme (2012). His main area of research covers public international law and international economic law. He serves as a research fellow at the International Economic Law Institute of Xiamen University as well as a secretariat member of the Administrative Council of Xiamen Academic of International Law. He’s also been a coach of

international moot court competitions including Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, and Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Moot.

Xiuli Han currently works at Law School of Xiamen University and International Economic Law Institute of Xiamen University. She has successfully supervised some master and Ph. D students majoring in international economic law domestic and abroad. She did one-year research as a New York University Law School Hauser Global Law Program Research Fellow(2008-2009). She has hosted several research projects funded by the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Education, and National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science. She was listed on the Program for New Century Outstanding Talents in

University in 2011. She has Membership of International Law Association. She serves as executive editor of Journal of International Economic Law (Chinese) since 2011 to present. Her researches focus on international economic law, especially in international economic dispute settlement. Her current teaching includes International Economic Law, Private International Law, International Institutions and Environmental Protection, Foreign-related Economic Law and Policy of the P. R. China, and Legal English.

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Andrew Harding is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at NUS. His work has related mainly to constitutional issues in SE Asia, but also to comparative law and law and development. He has published extensively on Malaysia. His latest book, The Constitution of Malaysia: A Contextual Analysis (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2012), is part of the series Constitutional Systems of the World, of which Professor Harding is also co-founding-editor. His book Law, Government and the Constitution in Malaysia MLJ, Kuala Lumpur, 1996) is a leading text on the subject. With Professor HP

Lee he co-edited Constitutional Landmarks in Malaysia: The First 50 Years, 1957-2007 (Kuala Lumpur, LexisNexis 2007). He has published numerous articles and book chapters on the Malaysian Constitution and Malaysian law.

Hikmahanto Juwana is an Indonesian citizen, born in Jakarta. Independent Commissioner of Unilever Indonesia since May 2011. He is currently also serving as an Independent Commissioner of PT Aneka Tambang Tbk (May 2009-present), a Member of the Legal Experts Team at the Ministry of Defense (February 2010-present), and a Member of the Legal Committee at the Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (September 2011-present). He was a Member of the Taxation Oversight Committee at the Ministry of Finance, (March 2010-March 2013) and the

Expert Council at the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (2004- 2005). He worked as consultant at the National Development Planning Board (Empowerment of the Commercial Court Adviser) from 2001 to 2002, and was Senior Legal Adviser to the Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs from 1999 to 2001. Prior to that he served in various capacities at a number of prominent law firms in Jakarta. He is inaugurated as Professor of International Law at the University of Indonesia in 2001, and served as Dean of the Faculty of Law from 2004 to 2008. He also teaches Law at several other prominent universities in Indonesia and has been a visiting professor at the University of Melbourne, National University of Singapore and Nagoya University, Japan. As an independent researcher he has published numerous books, articles and research papers on various aspects of international law, business law, and air and space law, among others. He graduated with a degree in Law from the University of Indonesia in 1987, and holds an LLM from Keio University, Japan (1992) and a PhD from the University of Nottingham, UK (1997).

Lin Lin is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore. She specializes in Chinese corporate law, comparative corporate law, partnership law, venture capital and private equity. She was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford Law School and the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University (2012-2013). Dr. Lin has published widely in law journals in the U.S., the U.K., Hong Kong and China, such as the Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance, the Journal of Corporate Law Studies and the Journal of Law and Commerce. She is the recipient of several academic honours, including the President’s Graduate

Fellowship and the Faculty Graduate Scholarship. Prior to joining academia, Dr. Lin was a Legal Policy Officer at the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority of Singapore (ACRA). She has worked in the Corporate Finance Department of a leading law firm in Singapore. She has also served as Assistant Counsel at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC).

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Dora Neo started her career as an advocate and solicitor before joining the NUS Law Faculty. She is Director of the Faculty's new Centre for Banking and Finance Law, and prior to this, was Director of the Faculty's Continuing Legal Education Programme. She teaches international banking law, credit & security law and contract law. She researches in these areas as well as in the liberalisation of trade in services under GATS and other agreements, with a particular interest in financial services. A first class honours graduate from Oxford University, she also holds an LLM from Harvard Law School. She has been called to the English Bar (Gray's Inn) and is an Advocate and Solicitor in

Singapore. She has a Certificate in Private Banking from the Wealth Management Institute (Singapore) and a Certificate in Real Estate Finance from the Department of Real Estate, NUS. She has researched at institutions such as the UN Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in Vienna, Austria and has presented papers in the UK, USA, Europe and Asia.

Sarah Y. Tong graduated from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and worked at the Development Research Center of China’s State Council for several years. She obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at San Diego. She was Assistant Professor of the Department of Economics and Research Fellow of East Asian Institute, both at the National University of Singapore. Currently, she is Senior Research Fellow of NUS’ East Asian Institute. Her research interests concentrate on the recent development and transformation of Chinese Economy, including development in trade and foreign investment, development of regions,

financial sector reforms, the reforms of state-owned enterprises, and industrial policies and restructuring. Her work appeared in journals such as Journal of International Economics, Global Economic Review, China: An International Journal, Review of Development Economics, China and the World Economy, Comparative Economic Studies, and China Economic Review. In addition to contributing chapters to numerous books on contemporary China, she also edited and co-edited several books including China and Global Economic Crisis (2010), Trade, Investment and Economic Integration (2014), and China’s Evolving Industrial Policies and Economic Restructure (2014).

Hui-Yi Katherine Tseng is a Research Associate in East Asian Institute. After obtaining her doctorate degree with UW-Wisconsin, Madison, she went to Beijing China and spent some time with The Beijing Arbitration Committee (2010, Spring), studying arbitration issues in current China. She then joined the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (2010, Autumn), and had a good chance looking at how states and private sectors worked to resolve their disputes. Subsequently, she joined the East Asian Institute around the

end of 2010. These experiences greatly enrich her perceptions toward conflict management and dispute resolutions in international community, enabling her to see these issues from different angles rather than mere legal ones. Her research interests expand from international trade dispute resolutions in World Trade Organization to maritime conflict management and disputes resolution in East Asian areas. Currently, she is working on the research concerning maritime territorial issues involving China, ASEAN countries, and Taiwan. Eyeing the thriving events that rapidly change the political landscapes in the world map, Dr. Tseng hopes that her research and the coming book can help shed lights on certain new directions that would help reconsider the established regional legal orders.

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Jiangyu Wang (SJD & LLM, University of Pennsylvania; MJur, Oxford; LLM, Peking University; LLB, China University of Political Science and Law) is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore. He was on secondament as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of The Chinese University of Hong Kong from August 2006 to July 2009. His teaching and research interests include international economic law, corporate and securities law, law and development, and Chinese legal system. He practiced law in the Legal Department of Bank of China and Chinese and American law firms. He served as a member of the Chinese delegation at the

annual conference of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Conference in 1999. He is a member of the Chinese Bar Association and the New York Bar Association. He is also an Executive Member on the Governing Council of the WTO Institute of the China Law Society, a Senior Fellow at the Law and Development Institute (LDI), and a fellow of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law (Hong Kong). He has also been invited expert/speaker for the WTO, International Trade Centre (UNCTAD/WTO) and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). He recently received the 2007 Young Researcher Award of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in recognition of his accomplishment in research from 2006-2007. Dr. Wang has published extensively in Chinese and international journals and newspapers on a variety of law and politics related topics.

Yvonne Wong is an expert in sovereign debt and international finance and banking law. Her current research looks at Myanmar's evolving banking and finance system. Her recent publications include "The World Bank Inspection Panel: A Tool for Accountability?", and her book Sovereign Finance and the Poverty of Nations: Odious Debt in International Law. Dr. Wong has worked as a lawyer, consultant and academic in various jurisdictions. Most recently she

was a consultant based in Myanmar and Cambodia. Prior to this she was on faculty at UNSW Law School. She has also worked as a lawyer in San Francisco, London, Sydney, and Samoa. Dr. Wong is a member of the New York State Bar and admitted to practice in New South Wales, Australia. She obtained her BCommerce/LLB from University of Sydney, and her LLM and JSD from Berkeley Law School.

Zeng Huaqun graduated from Xiamen University (Doctor of Law, 1990; Master of Law, 1984; Bachelor of History, 1982) and is a Law Professor and Director of International Economic Law Institute, Xiamen University, China; President, Chinese Society of International Economic Law (2011-); Member, the Curatorium and Co-president, the Administrative Council, Xiamen Academy of International Law (2005-); Legal Consultant, People’s Government of Fujian Province (2001-); Arbitrator, China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (1995-). His major teaching and researching fields are Theory on International Economic Law, International Investment Law, WTO

Laws and Law Issues on Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

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Zhao Hong is currently a Visiting Senior Fellow with the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS). Before joining ISEAS he was a Senior Fellow at the East Asian Institute. His publications include China and India: the quest for energy resources in the 21st century, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2012, A Study of the Financial Development in Malaysia, Xiamen University Press, 2005 and The History, Current Status and Development Trend of Sino-ASEAN Economic and Trade Relations Under the Background of Globalization (with Nie Dening), Xiamen University Press, 2006.

Zhu Xiaoqin is a professor in Xiamen University Law School and a Ph.D in international law. She works in the fields of environmental law and oceans law. Professor Zhu is the director of Xiamen University Law School Center for Environmental and Energy Law, and an adjunct professor of Xiamen University Coastal and Ocean Management Institute. She teaches courses of Marine Policy and International Oceans Law conducted in English for international master students in marine affairs. She is an arbitrator with the Xiamen Arbitration Commission and a legislative consultant of Xiamen Municipal

Government. Professor Zhu was a visiting scholar at University College London (UCL) Faculty of Laws, UK, in 2004-2005, at University of Washington (UW) School of Marine Affairs, US, in 2007. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School in academic year of 2012-2013.