SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW 2012 SUMMER ABROAD PROGRAM

Douglas Arner. Dr. Douglas Arner is Director of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the . He specializes in economic and financial law, regulation and development. He is author, co-author or editor of eight books, including Financial Markets in Hong Kong: Law and Practice (Oxford University Press) and Financial Stability, Economic Growth and the Role of Law (Cambridge University Press), and author or co-author of more than 50 articles, chapters and reports on related subjects.

Farzana Aslam. Farzana Aslam joined the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong in 2007. She currently teaches Civil Litigation, Commercial Dispute Resolution, and Business and Human Rights. Prior to joining the Faculty of Law, Ms. Aslam practiced at the London Bar for a period of 7 years before joining Goldman Sachs in 2001 as their principal in-house employment counsel for the Asia Pacific region. Ms. Aslam is an experienced trainer and facilitator, and has consulted on a full range of employment law, diversity, cross-cultural and cross-border management and HR issues across the Asia Pacific region. She is co-editor (with Professor Rick Glofcheski) of Employment Law and Practice in Hong Kong. In 2011 Farzana was co-winner of the Faculty Research Output Prize for Employment Law and Practice in Hong Kong.

Anne Carver. Professor Anne Carver is a member of the faculty at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Anne Carver 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, legal writing skills, and the legal skills of the global lawyer in the twenty-first century.

Richard Cullen. Richard Cullen is a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong. He was previously a Professor in the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He completed his LLB at Melbourne University Law School in 1982 and his doctorate at Osgoode Hall Law School in Canada in 1986. He has written and co-written several books and more than 100 articles, notes and commentaries and has been the recipient of a range of major and minor research grants. Richard's books include Federalism in Action (1990) and Media Law in the PRC (1996) (with H. L. Fu). One of his most recent monographs is The Rule of Law in Hong Kong (2005).

Kun Fan. Fan Kun is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kongspecializes in international dispute resolution and international commercial law. Prof. Fan is admitted to practice in the state of New York. She has studied and practiced in , Singapore, U.S.A., Switzerland, and France, and speaks Chinese, English and French.

Before joining the faculty, Prof. Fan worked as a Deputy Counsel at the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris, administering a significant volume of international arbitrations. Before moving to Europe, she worked as a Foreign Legal Advisor at a leading law firm in Singapore, where she advised clients on China- related matters in the areas of foreign investment, mergers & acquisition, and intellectual property.

Prof. Fan has conducted extensive research in the area of international arbitration and comparative law. She worked with Prof. Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler at the Geneva University Law School for a research project on Arbitration in China, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. She is also an arbitrator for the Willem Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna and Hong Kong, and coaches the Law Faculty’s Vis moot teams.

Hualing Fu. Professor of law at Hong Kong University. Professor Fu’s research interest includes constitutional law and human rights, with a special focus on criminal justice system and media law in China.

Alan Gibb. Alan Gibb is on the faculty at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prior to this appointment, he was Bar Vocational Course Director at Manchester Metropolitan University. His main areas of teaching interest are in relation to Contract law and Private International Law. Since 1990 he has been a regular visitor to Hong Kong to teach as a Visiting Professor for the Hong Kong University.

Alice Lee. Alice Lee, Associate Professor, specializes in property/land law and intellectual property law. Her academic interests also extend to legal bilingualism. She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate students at HKU, students from Tsinghua University and Santa Clara University, as well as Hong Kong civil servants.

Emily Lee. Dr. Emily Lee is a member of the faculty at Hong Kong University. Areas of specialization include Commercial/ Corporate Law and Financial Law.

Eva Pils. Eva Pils is an Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, faculty of law. She received her PhD and LLM from London, and is licensed to practice law in Germany. Her research interests include Chinese Law, Legal and Political Philosophy, Human Rights, and Comparative Law. She was Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell law school in 2006, a Visiting Fellow at NYU law school in 2009, and Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell law school in 2006.

Romesh Weeramantry. Romesh Weeramantry is an Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. His professional experience includes work in international arbitration, dispute resolution and public international law at the Iran- United States Claims Tribunal, the United Nations Compensation Commission and at a leading Swiss law firm. He has also been an international law consultant to several international organizations. His first book International Commercial Arbitration: An Asia-Pacific Perspective (co-authored with Simon Greenberg and Chris Kee) was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010.

Yun Zhao. Dr. Zhao Yun is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. He holds a PhD from Erasmus University in the Netherlands, an LLM from Leiden University, the Netherlands, and an LLM and LLB from China University of Political Science and Law in . His areas of research and interest include Space Law, Dispute Resolution, International Economic Law, and E-commerce Law.

David Bishop. David Bishop earned his JD from Georgetown University Law Center. He teaches at the University of Hong Kong. Mr. Bishop has broad and substantial experience in Asian and U.S. transactional legal practice. He has worked on major financing, real estate, private equity and M&A matters in the U.S. and throughout Asia, and participated in numerous bilingual negotiations in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. His rich international background and experience enables him to provide useful insights on Asian legal environments and systemic barriers to doing business in China.

Mr. Bishop adopts an international and multicultural approach to teaching and focuses on practical and strategic aspects of law. His teaching philosophy is to broaden the students’ perspective and help them to apply complex legal analysis to real-world business problems.

Richard Holt. Richard Holt teaches at Hong Kong University. Richard Holt joined the Law Faculty in September 2010 as the Director of Legal Research and Writing in the Department of Law. He obtained his LLB at Southampton University and worked there as a Research Assistant in the Institute of Maritime Law. Richard has taught, assessed, designed materials and been module leader on Bar Vocational Courses for 16 years in the following subjects: Legal Research, Opinion Writing and Drafting, Negotiation, Conference Skills, Advocacy, Professional Ethics, Civil Litigation and Evidence and International Trade.

Richard is the co-author of a number of Bar Vocational Course Manuals (Civil Litigation and International Trade) and has spoken on International Trade and on other subjects at a number of conferences. His specialised subjects are Legal Writing and Research, Negotiation, Civil Litigation, International Trade and Shipping Law.

Yahong Li. Dr. Yahong Li is an Associate Professor and Deputy Head at the Department of Law. She is also an Associate Director at HKU Technology Transfer Office. She served as Director of LLM Program in IP/IT at the Department of Law from 2003-2010.

Dr. Li specializes in intellectual property law with a focus on cross-disciplinary study on intellectual property and cutting-edge technologies such as biotechnology and information technology, and publishes extensively in relevant area including a book entitled “Imitation to Innovation in China: the Role of Patents in Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries (Edward Elgar, 2010), and journal articles/book chapters such as “Human Gene Patenting and Its Implications to Medical Research,” in P. Yu (ed.), Intellectual Property and Information Wealth (Praeger, 2007) and “Pushing for Greater Protection: the Trend of Chinese Software Industry and the Implications for the Rule of Law in China,” U Penn. J. Int’l Eco. L., Vol. 23:4 (2002). She was a member of two HKU theme-based research projects: “Drug Discovery/Synthesis” and “ethical and legal issue for genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics” in 2005, and succeeded to the final selection round in a very competitive RGC Theme-Based Research grant application in 2011 as a core Co- Principle Investigator on the topic of Developing a Roadmap for Enhancing Entrepreneurship in Hong Kong: Innovation, Enterprises, and Hong Kong’s Sustainable Competitive Advantage.

Claire Wilson. Claire Wilson has worked as a consultant in the private sector advising on financial issues and corporate restructuring within major Hong Kong and European corporations. She has an LL.B (Hons) degree from the Nottingham Trent University Law School, UK and a Masters of International Economic Law with distinction from the City University of Hong Kong. Claire is currently writing her Doctorate in the field of international investment arbitration at the City University of Hong Kong. Claire is also the legal editor for the EU-China Law Journal. Her teaching and Research Interests include International Investment Law, Banking and Finance Law, European Mediation, Med-Arb under the Hong Kong Arbitration' Ordinance, and Cross border issues in the distribution of funds.