5 and 6 December 2013 Lee Sheridan Room, National University of Singapore, Bukit Timah Campus

Workshop Programme

Thursday 5 December 2013 (Day 1) 9.00am - 9.45am Registration and administration (Lee Sheridan Room, Eu Tong Sen Building)

9.45am – 10.00am Opening Remarks

Professor Andrew Harding DIRECTOR ASIAN LAW INSTITUTE AND CENTRE FOR ASIAN LEGAL STUDIES

FACULTY OF LAW, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

10.00am – 10.15am Tea Break (Outside Lee Sheridan Room)

10.15am – 12.15pm Panel 1 Chairperson: Assistant Professor Mark McBride

(15mins for presentation, 10mins for response and 15mins for discussion)

The Chuadhry Court of Pakistan (2005 – 2013): ‘Rule of Law’ or ‘Judicialization of Politics’? Moeen Cheema, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF LAW Presentation by Aschara Chinniyompanich Response by the author

An Institutional Alchemy: India’s Two Parliaments in Comparative Context Shubhankar Dam, SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY Presentation by Stefan Gruber Response by the author

‘The Sovereignty of the People’ in Contemporary Sri Lankan Constitutional Discourse WVA Dinesha Samararatne, UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO Presentation by Munkhsaikhan Odonkhuu Response by the author

12.45pm – 2.00pm Lunch (Staff Lounge, Block B, Level 2)

2.00pm – 4.00pm Panel 2

Chairperson: Associate Professor Gary Bell

(15mins for presentation, 10mins for response and 15mins for discussion)

The Role of the Constitutional Tribunal in Myanmar’s Reform Process Gabriela Marti, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE Presentation by Ben Chapman-Schmidt Response by the author

Contrasting Neighbours: Judicial Independence in India and Sri Lanka Rehan Abeyratne, JINDAL GLOBAL LAW SCHOOL Presentation by Sean McGinty Response by the author

The role of the legal profession in the promotion of the substantive rule of law in Myanmar (Burma) Nathan Willis, SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY Presentation by Simona Novaretti Response by the author

4.00pm – 4.15pm Tea break (Outside Lee Sheridan Room)

4.15pm – 6.15pm Panel 3 Chairperson: Assistant Professor Jack Tsen-Ta Lee

(15mins for presentation, 10mins for response and 15mins for discussion)

Federalism and Sustainable Water Resources Management: A Case Study Of Malaysia Rasyikah Md Khalid, UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA Presentation by Bo Zhao Response by the author

The Legal Production of Space within A Pluralistic Legal Setting: The Case of Bali I Gusti Agung Made Wardana, ASIA RESEARCH CENTRE (ARC), MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Presentation by Jing-Huey Shao Response by the author

The City as an Object of Asian Legal Studies: Towards a Positive Research Agenda Jason Bonin, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE Presentation by Kanok Jullamon Response by the author

6.20pm Group Photo (Day 1)

6.30pm Bus to Welcome Dinner at CHOPSUEY (Block 10, Dempsey Road, #01-23)

9.30pm Bus to the hotel

5 and 6 December 2013 Lee Sheridan Room, National University of Singapore, Bukit Timah Campus

Workshop Programme

Friday 6 December (Day 2) 9.30am – 9.40am Opening Remarks

Assistant Professor Sundram Soosay DEPUTY DIRECTOR ASIAN LAW INSTITUTE

FACULTY OF LAW, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

9.40am – 11.40am Panel 4 Chairperson: Assistant Professor Eliza Mik

(15mins for presentation, 10mins for response and 15mins for discussion)

An Empirical Study of Consumer Bankruptcy in Thailand Kanok Jullamon, BANKRUPTCY DIVISION, SUPREME COURT OF THAILAND Presentation by Rasyikah Md Khalid Response by the author

The Attitude and Behavior of Taiwanese toward Resolving Claims in Consumer Class Disputes – an Experimental Approach Jing-Huey Shao, NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY Presentation by Nathan Willis Response by the author

Reputation as Social Control in Present China: Use, Misuse, Abuse and Bankruptcy Bo Zhao, UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN Presentation by WVA Dinesha Samararatne Response by the author

11.40am –11.50am Tea break (Outside Lee Sheridan Room)

11.50am – 1.50pm Panel 5

Chairperson: Professor Irene Calboli

(15mins for presentation, 10mins for response and 15mins for discussion)

“’It’s not true but I believe it’. Haunted houses controversies in China” Simona Novaretti, UNIVERSITÀ DI TORINO Presentation by Gabriela Marti Response by the author

The Fall of the Shoutengai: Governing Multiple Interests on Japan’s Shopping Streets Sean McGinty, NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LAW Presentation by Moeen Cheema Response by the author

Sex in the Shadow of the Law: Regulating Sex Work and Human Trafficking in Singapore Ben Chapman-Schmidt, THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY’S COLLEGE OF ASIA AND THE PACIFIC Presentation by Shubhankar Dam Response by the author

1.50pm – 3.00pm Lunch (Staff Lounge, Block B, Level 2)

3.00pm – 5.00pm Panel 6 Chairperson: Dr Kirsten Sellars

(15mins for presentation, 10mins for response and 15mins for discussion)

Toward Independent, Impartial and Fair Judiciary in Mongolia: Judicial Ethics Munkhsaikhan Odonkhuu, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MONGOLIA Presentation by Rehan Abeyratne Response by the author

Cultural identity, heritage protection and human rights in Asia Stefan Gruber, THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Presentation by I Gusti Agung Made Wardana Response by the author

Thai Non-Governmental Organisation as the Third Wheel of the Bicycle: Should Thailand’s Environmental Litigation Ride on a Tricycle? Aschara Chinniyompanich, CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY Presentation by Jason Bonin Response by the author

5.00pm – 5.15pm Tea break (Outside Lee Sheridan Room)

5.15pm – 5.30pm Closing Remarks Associate Professor Wang Jiang Yu

DEPUTY DIRECTOR CENTRE FOR ASIAN LEGAL STUDIES

FACULTY OF LAW, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

5.45pm Bus to Closing Dinner at Immigrants (467 Joo Chiat Road)

9.30pm Bus to the hotel

Profiles (listed by family name)

REHAN ABEYRATNE is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Jindal Global Law School, where he has taught since 2011. He also serves as Assistant Dean (Research and Global Initiatives) and as Executive Director of the Centre for Public Interest Law. He has a B.A. in Political Science from Brown University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Prior to joining JGLS, Prof. Abeyratne was a Holmes Public Service Fellow at the International Justice Network in New York City, where he represented detainees in habeas corpus proceedings in U.S. federal court. His previous experience includes work for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, and at NGOs in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Myanmar. He is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York.

After an undergraduate degree in theology (BTh) at the Université Laval (Quebec City), GARY F. BELL obtained degrees in both the common law (LLB) and the civil law (BCL.) at McGill University in Montreal and an LLM at Columbia University in New York City. He was Editor in Chief of the McGill Law Journal, clerked for Justice Stevenson of the Supreme Court of Canada and taught at McGill University. He teaches in comparative law (Comparative Legal Traditions, International and Comparative Law of Sale, Indonesian Law). He does most of his research on Indonesian law and on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. He is the Director of the Asian Law Institute.

JASON BONIN has just finished as a PhD candidate of the National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law, where his (recently completed) dissertation focused on regionalism and air transport in the East Asian region. His current research looks at various legal issues pertaining to urban issues in Asia, including land use regulations and planning laws, local government law, and interdisciplinary approaches to urban governance more broadly.

IRENE CALBOLI is a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, a Transatlantic Technology Law Forum Fellow at Stanford Law School, and a Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School (US). She started her academic career at the University of Bologna, and held visiting positions at the King's College London, the University of California Berkeley, the University Complutense, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law. Dr. Calboli's current research interests focus on intellectual property and international trade, and the protection of intangible cultural heritage. Dr. Calboli is, inter alia, a member of the Academic Committee of the International Trademark Association (INTA), the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), the Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale (ALAI), and the Executive Committee of the Section on Law and Arts of the Association of American Law Schools.

BENJAMIN CHAPMAN-SCHMIDT is an Australian Postgraduate Award-funded PhD scholar at the Regulatory Institutions Network, an interdisciplinary program within the Australian National University aimed at exploring and understanding critical domains of regulation. His thesis, “Organised Crime and the Global Sex Industry,” uses Tokyo as a research site to explore both the international financial flows involved with the transnational sex industry and the extent to which these flows are captured by criminal actors. Benjamin will explore how the various aspects of the law—relating to organised crime, prostitution, and immigration—empower or marginalise various actors working this sector. In addition to Tokyo, his research will include fieldwork in source countries for human trafficking and migrant sex workers such the Philippines, Thailand and the PRC. In May he presented on his thesis at the International Conference on Asian Organised Crime at the City University of Hong Kong. Previously he assisted in facilitating the Pakistan-Southeast Asia Workshop on Implementing the Legal Framework in Countering the Financing of Terrorism in Kuala Lumpur. Benjamin has worked as an intern for terrorism prevention at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok, where he conducted research on treaties related to terrorism in Southeast Asia, anti-money laundering and terrorist-financing initiatives, and maritime laws, as well as contributing research on human trafficking to the regional Transnational Organised Crime Threat Assessment. He holds an MA in International Security summa cum laude from the Paris Institute of Political Science, with minors in Humanitarian Action and East Asia, and a BA (honours, with distinction) from the University of Toronto, and has also studied at the University of Tokyo and the University of Tartu, Estonia.

MOEEN CHEEMA has been an Associate Lecturer and a Teaching Fellow at the ANU College of Law since 2009. Moeen teaches the Law & Society in South Asia course in the Master of Law, Governance and Development program and also lectures in the Legal Theory course in the undergraduate program. Moeen is also pursuing a PhD at the College. His thesis aims to present a contextualized history of the law and courts in postcolonial Pakistan. Moeen completed an LLM from Harvard Law School and an LLB (Honours) from the University of London. Prior to joining the ANU College of Law he taught law in Pakistan from 2004 to 2008. From 1999 to 2003 he practiced as a securities lawyer in the United States of America and became a member of the California State Bar.

ASCHARA CHINNIYOMPANICH is a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Chiang Mai University, Thailand. She has lectured in Law & Modern World, and Civil & Commercial Law (for LL.B program), Human Rights (for LL.M program), and Environmental Law (for both LL.B, and LL.M program). She achieved an LL.M. in Natural Resources and Environmental Law, and an LL.B. from Thammasat University where has its motto as “I love Thammasat because Thammasat teaches me to love people”. Prior to join the faculty, Ms Chinniyompanich served her society-concern passions by working in a non-governmental organisation for the project of “Anti-Trafficking in Mekong Region,” and being volunteer in the Victim and Services Unit of the Fairfax Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court (Virginia, USA). Supporting her litigation practice, she was trained as an interpreter for the foreign defendants in criminal case by the Ministry of Justice since 2001, as well as obtaining practising licence from the Lawyers Council of Thailand, and certificate in paralegal from George Mason University (Virginia, USA). Recently, she joined the Office of the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRC) as an academic practitioner on Human Rights to five leading universities in Northern of Thailand and was invited by the Southern Bangkok District Court to give lecture on “English for Communication in Court Matters” to the court officials. Currently, Ms Chinniyompanich is a research fellow in the research project on protecting the rights of consumers in electricity: a case study of Thailand,” commissioned by the Energy Regulatory Commission, Ministry of Energy, Thailand.

Prior to joining SMU in 2007, SHUBANKAR DAM completed the LLM from Harvard Law School in 2007 as a Myer and Etta Dana Scholar, and the BCL from University of Oxford in 2006 as a Felix Scholar. Since then I have held visiting positions in Australia (ANU College of Law, Melbourne Law School), Germany (Max Planck Centre for Comparative Law) and India (NUJS). I work mostly in the field of law and governance in India drawing on empirical and archival sources, and my current research focuses on separation of powers. Thus far I have published in journals from the Australia (PLR), UK (LQR, PL, OUCLJ, SLR, CLWR, JEL), USA (Columbia, Georgetown, Tulane, Indiana & Albany) and Singapore (SJLS).

STEFAN GRUBER is a Lecturer at Sydney Law School, where he inter alia coordinates all legal research units for the undergraduate and graduate law degrees. He is also active as a legal practitioner and consultant, and is a member of the Chamber of Lawyers, Frankfurt am Main. Stefan was educated at the Universities of Sydney, Frankfurt, Mainz, and at Harvard Law School, and holds degrees in law, philosophy, and political science. He also held visiting positions at the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law at the University of Ottawa, the Centre for Comparative and Public Law at the University of Hong Kong, and Renmin Law School of China in Beijing. Stefan’s regional focus is on East and Southeast Asia and particularly China. His current research concentrates on sustainable development law and policy, the conservation of cultural heritage and social change, and international and comparative environmental law. Another major focus is on the illicit trafficking of cultural property and other forms of art crime, their prevention and prosecution, and the restitution of illegally exported objects. Stefan further researches and publishes in the field of armed conflicts.

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

KANOK JULLAMON is a Judge attached to the Bankruptcy Division of the Supreme Court of Thailand. He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree (First Class Honors) from Chulalongkorn University in 2002. He obtained two LL.M. degrees: one from New York University in 2004 and another from The University of Chicago in 2005. Kanok started his career as a bankruptcy trustee at the Ministry of Justice from June 2005 to August 2006. He then passed the judge selection exam and has been a judge since September 2006. He had been working as a Judge Trainee, a Junior Judge, a Judge of Talingchan Provincial Court, and a Judge of Songkhla Provincial Court. Kanok obtained a Doctor of the Science of Law degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A. in December 2012. Aside from his judiciary career, he has been a part-time lecturer at universities in Bangkok and upcountry since 2008. So far nine English articles of his were published in four law journals.

JACK LEE is an Assistant Professor of Law with the School of Law, Singapore Management University, which he joined in November 2008. His primary areas of teaching and research are constitutional and administrative law. Jack graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1995 and qualified as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore the following year. After practising for about six years as a litigator with a Singapore law firm, he took up postgraduate studies at University College London on a British Chevening Scholarship and was conferred an LL.M. in 2003. He then returned to Singapore and worked as an Assistant Director for the Singapore Academy of Law, a professional association of judges, lawyers, government legal officers and law academics. Subsequently, he embarked on Ph.D. studies on a fully funded teaching assistantship at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, and successfully defended his thesis on the interpretation and construction of bills of rights in January 2012. He held a 2009–2010 Lee Foundation Fellowship for Research Excellence, and received the School of Law’s Most Promising Teacher Award 2010–2011. In 2012 he was appointed to the Law Society of Singapore’s Public and International Law Committee. Jack has published articles on constitutional law, criminal procedure, heritage law and other subjects in various law journals, including Art, Antiquity and Law, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, Law Quarterly Review, the Singapore Academy of Law Journal, the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies and Statute Law Review. He was also a contributor to the first editions of Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore and Singapore Court Practice, produced by LexisNexis.

Originally from Switzerland, GABRIELA MARTI is currently undertaking a PhD at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Her doctoral thesis focuses on the legal regulation of migrant domestic workers in East and Southeast Asia. Gabriela obtained her first degree in law (“lic. iur.”) from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and later undertook an LLM at NUS. She was admitted to the Swiss Bar in 2007. Prior to joining the doctoral programme at NUS, Gabriela practised as a lawyer in Zurich, Switzerland, for several years, first at two law firms, and later at a major Swiss media company. She has also been a research and teaching assistant at the University of Zurich. Her research interests are in the areas of law and development, international labour migration, and gender.

MARK MCBRIDE was a Postdoctoral Fellow at NUS Law in academic year 2011-12, and joined NUS Law as an Assistant Professor in August 2012. He holds advanced degrees in Law and in Philosophy. He has published work on diverse topics, ranging from the nature of law in general, the goal or aim of legal proof, the relationship between justifications and excuses in the criminal law, the nature of practical authority, the nature of practical reasons, and the doctrine of double effect.

SEAN MCGINTY is currently a designated assistant professor at Nagoya University`s Graduate School of Law where he is a member of the University`s Leading Graduate Schools Program. Prior to joining Nagoya University professor McGinty completed his doctoral studies at Kyushu University in Fukuoka where he did research on corporate governance. He has presented his research at law conferences in Japan, Korea and the United States, with his main research interests being in the areas of corporate law, legal history, law and economics, comparative law, and Japanese law.

RASYIKAH MD KHALID is a young lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University Technology MARA Malaysia. She attained her LL.B at the University of Sheffield and completed her LL.M at the University of Malaya. She is now pursuing her PhD at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia focusing on the legal perspective on sustainable water resources management in Malaysia. She has presented and wrote papers on environmental law. Her recent articles were published in the Sustainable Development and the OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development. She is an active member of the Malaysian Water Association as well as the International Water Association. She has been invited in many stakeholder consultation groups to promote local participation in decision making process related to water.

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

SIMONA NOVARETTI is a Researcher at the Università degli Studi di Torino, Faculty of Law, where she works as an Assistant Professor in Chinese . She graduated in Chinese Language and Literature at the Università degli Studi di Venezia, Ca’Foscari, completed a law degree at the Università degli Studi di Torino and a P.h.D in Comparative Law at the Università degli Studi di Milano. She has published extensively on Chinese law and language, Chinese contract law and public interest law, and she has recently published a book on public interest litigation in China.

MUNKHSAIKHAN ODONKHUU received his LL.B. (2005) from National University of Mongolia School of Law, his LL.M. (2008) and his LL.D. (2011) from Nagoya University Graduate School of Law. He just joined National University School of Law in June 2013 to teach two courses, Introduction to Law and Legal and Political Theories, from the next fall semester. Munkhsaikhan was a legal documentary reviewer at Kelly Law Registry (February - April 2013), a visiting scholar at George Washington University Law School (August 2012 – May 2013) and at University of Washington School of Law (December 2011 – July 2012) in the U.S., and a foreign research associate at Nagoya University Graduate School of Law (2011 –2012) in Japan, a research assistant at National University of Mongolia School of Law (2005 – 2006) and an intern at Sukhbaatar District Court in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (2005). His research focuses on the rule of law in transitional countries, comparative law, judicial ethics and constitutionalism. He published Erkh zuit Yos: Khuuli Buteekh Ajillagaa [the rule of law: law-making process], KHUULI

DEEDLEKH YOS [the respect to law], 45-55 (National Legal Center, 2006), and Kharitsuulsan Erkh zuin Arga [the method of comparative law], 12 ERKH ZUI [law], 33-43 (National University of Mongolia, 2004). The title of his master thesis was “To Improve Constitutional Reasoning as a Means to Strengthen Constitutionalism in Mongolia,” and the title of his doctoral dissertation was “Towards Better Protection of Fundamental Rights in Mongolia: Constitutional Review and Interpretation,” which is going to be published as a book by Nagoya University in 2013. Moreover, he made the two presentations: (1) “Lessons from the U.S. Constitutional Law: Protection of Civil and Political Rights,” Center for Asian Legal Exchange, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, August 2012 and (2) “Towards Better Protection of Fundamental Rights in Mongolia: Constitutional Review and Interpretation,” Asian Law Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S., May 2012.

WVA DINESHA SAMARARATNE is a Lecturer attached to the Department of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She read for her LL B at the University of Colombo and for her LLM at Harvard Law School, MA, USA. She teaches human rights law and administrative law at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels of the university. Dinesha is currently reading for her PhD in law at the University of Colombo. Her PhD research is on the constitutionally recognised concept of ‘the sovereignty of the People’ and its potential to provide conceptual and contextual principles for furthering a constitutional democracy in Sri Lanka. She was awarded a grant by the World Bank through the Ministry of Higher Education for my PhD studies. Her general areas of research interest include the public trust doctrine, public interest litigation, social contract theory, the concept of popular sovereignty and disability rights. Dinesha’s recent publications are, A Provisional Evaluation of the Contribution of the Supreme Court to Political Reconciliation in Post-war Sri Lanka (May 2009 – August 2012), Public Trust Doctrine: The Sri Lankan Version (2011), Sri Lankan Judicial Response to Right to Liberty 2000-2007 (2011). Her recent presentations include, “Dignity for Persons with Disability in Sri Lanka through Constitutional Guarantees”, National Law Conference, March 2013 and “A Review Of The Role Of The Judiciary In Post-War Sri Lanka” at ‘Post-War Futures’ organised by the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, February, 2013. She was recently a Visiting Fellow of the Gilbert+Tobin Centre of the Faculty of Law of the University of New South Wales in Australia. She is a former Fulbright scholar. She has served on the national sub-committee on Bio-Ethics of the National Science Foundation (Sri Lanka) and have been a consultant for the Norwegian Refugee Council, Centre for Housing Rights and Eviction, the Law & Society Trust and the International Centre for Ethnic Studies in Sri Lanka.

KIRSTEN SELLARS is currently Research Fellow at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law. She focuses on Asian perspectives on public international law, with a particular interest in international aggression and uses of force, international criminal law, and law of the sea. Her route into academia began with journalism, having written on international affairs and other issues for newspapers and publications including The Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Spectator, and Los Angeles Times. Her first book, The Rise and Rise of Human Rights, was nominated in the New Statesman as one of 2002’s books of the year, and was translated into Korean as In-gwon Geu Wiseon-eui Yeoksa (tr. Seung-hoon Oh, Eunhaengnamu, 2003). Her latest book, ‘Crimes Against Peace’ and International Law, has just been published by Cambridge University Press. She has also contributed to the Journal of International Criminal Justice, European Journal of International Law, Edinburgh Law Review and International Affairs.

JING-HUEY SHAO is currently an assistant professor of law at National Cheng Kung University. She obtained her LL.B and MBA at National Taiwan University, her LL.M at Columbia University and her J.S.D. at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She was initially an attorney at law, who passed the Taiwan, New York and PRC bars, and practiced in Taiwan. After she began her career in academia, she researched at the Center for Empirical Research at Washington University and later joined the East Asian Legal Studies Center at Harvard Law School as a visiting scholar. Her research interests include empirical studies, civil procedure law, private international law, law and economics and comparative law.

Originally from Malaysia, SUNDRAM SOOSAY has lived in Scotland for the past 20 years. He graduated from Strathclyde University in Glasgow, before going on to spend an extended period at Edinburgh University, where he obtained his LLM and PhD, and later held positions as a research associate and a teaching fellow. His research interests are in Jurisprudence and philosophy generally and he is currently completing work on a long-term project which traces the relative failure of research within jurisprudence over the past 50 years to a larger crisis in the human sciences, a crisis which arises from the dramatic cultural changes that have marked the post-war era.

AGUNG MADE WARDANA obtained his Honours in Law at Atmajaya University of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and a Master of Law (LLM) in Environmental Law at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. He has been actively involved in the environmental and human rights social movements in Indonesia, serving as Bali branch director of the Indonesian environmental organization, WALHI. He was NGO representative for the legal drafting team for the 2009 Provincial Regulation concerning Spatial Planning for Bali Province and the Provincial Regulation for the Protection and Fulfilment of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. He has been awarded: Murdoch International Postgraduate Studentship (MIPS) from Murdoch University to undertake a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University Australia (2013 – present); International Fellowship Program (IFP), Ford Foundation, to undertake a Master of Law in Environmental Law at the University of Nottingham (2010 – 2011); StuNed Scholarship from Neso Indonesia to attend a Short Course on the Strategic Environmental Assessment and Environmental Impacts Assessment at the International Training Centre, the Netherlands (2007).

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 secondment 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. He is a regular contributor to leading newspapers and magazines in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Mainland China.

NATHAN WILLIS completed a Juris Doctor degree at the University of Southern Queensland in 2012 and was awarded the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement. He is a Registered Nurse (Bachelor of Nursing, Southern Cross University) and has specialised in International Health and Development. He has over 10 years experience of ongoing involvement in Myanmar (Burma) including 3 years full-time work (2006-2009) as an aid worker. He was recently published in the University of Tasmania Law Review and he has been invited to join a panel to present a paper in relation to the Constitutional Tribunal of Myanmar at the EuroSEAS Conference in Portugal in 2013. Nathan has commenced a PhD in Law entitled, 'Myanmar (Burma), Ethnic Nationalities and the Rule of Law. A Critical Analysis.' supervised by Dr Natalia Szablewska, Dr Tom Round and Dr Jennifer Neilsen. Janelle Saffin MP is an external advisor to the PhD.

BO ZHAO is a Chinese legal philosopher and a research fellow at Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He has presented at many international conferences and meetings before, and was a visiting scholar at Pennsylvania University Law School, U.S.A. in 2012.