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CAREER    

Tenured full professor, since July 2017. The Choh-Ming Li Professorships were established in honour of the Chinese post-war reconstructionist, Dr. Li Choh-ming KBE, the founding Vice-Chancellor, and fall under the purview of the Vice-Chancellor’ Office.

Barrister and Arbitrator
   

Keating Chambers, 15 Essex Street, London    

Since 2013    

Advice and representation to sovereign nations, governments and private clients typically in complex public and private international law matters and disputes.      

Professor of Law, Member of Court and the Senate,    

University of Hong Kong    

Tenured full professor, 2007-2017    

Associate Professor    

Tenured, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (2004-2007)    

State Counsel    

Attorney-General’s Chambers of the Republic of Singapore (2002-2003), International Affairs Division    

Assistant Professor    

Tenure-track, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (2001-2004)    

Associate Legal Officer
   

Governing Council Secretariat, United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), Geneva, Switzerland (Ad Hoc Committee 26, Security Council) (1999-2000)    

Lecturer In Law    

Permanent post, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, Faculty of Laws (1999)    

Lecturer In Law    

Permanent post, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Department of Law (1993-1998)    

On leave 1996-1997
   

• Acting Director of Graduate Studies in Law, 1998    

• Acting Chairman of the Law Examinations Board, 1998    

• LL.M. Programme Admissions Tutor, 1994-1998    

Law Scholar & Part-Time Tutor    

University of Nottingham, School of Law (1991-1993)    

• Conducted international law tutorials on behalf of Prof. D.J. Harris C.M.G.    

VISITING & HONORARY POSITIONS    

Visiting Professor, King’s College London (2009-2012, 2014-2017, 2017-date)    

Honorary Senior Fellow of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (2019-date)    

Lionel A. Sheridan Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore (2015), etc.    

OTHER POSITIONS    

• Committee on Pacific Economic Cooperation, tasked to advise Secretary of Commerce, by appointment of the Government of the HKSAR (2012 – 2018)    

• Executive Director, twice by election, Singapore Society of International Law (2003-2005; 2007). Currently a Committee Member.    

• Advisor to a Prime Minister’s Office, 2004-2006 (maritime delimitation and related treaty issues)    

HONOURS, KEYNOTE SPEECHES, etc.    

• 2017 CMS Hasche Sigle International Law Lecture, Hong Kong SAR    

•  2017 Keynote Speaker, Forum Policy Forum, Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute, Colombo    

• 2009 Annual Speaker, by invitation of the Co-Editors-in-Chief of the Harvard International Law Journal, Cambridge, Massachusetts    

• Keynote Speaker, by invitation of the Legal Theory Interest Group, American Society of International Law, Tillar House, Washington D.C., 2008    

• The Singapore Law Review Lecture 2007, by invitation of the Editor-in-Chief of the Review    

EDITORSHIPS    

• Co-Editor, Asian Commercial, Financial and Economic Law and Policy Series, Edward Elgar since 2010 (with D.W. Arner & X. Zhang)    

• Chinese Journal of International Law, Oxford University Press & the Chinese Society of International Law, Beijing (since 2007)    

• Singapore Yearbook of International Law 2004-2007 (Editor-in-Chief 2004-2006 volumes, Joint Editor-in-Chief, 2007 volume) (now the Asian Journal of International Law)    

• Non-State Actors & International Law, Brill Publishers 2003-2006    

ADVISORY POSITIONS    

• International Advisory Board, Centre for Commercial and Investment Arbitration, Lahore, Pakistan since 2014    

• International Advisory Board, National Research Foundation of Korea (statutory body), 2010-2012    

• Steering Committee, Asian International Economic Law Network, since 2009    

• Governing Board, Foundation for the Development of International Law in Asia, 2007-2009    

• Provisional Executive Council, formation of the Asian Society of International Law 2007    

AS INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL EXPERT, CONSULTANT    

• Chair & speaker, Expert Dialogue on FTAs, APEC SOM and related meetings, Qingdao, People’s Republic of China, 2014, by invitation of China’s MOFCOM    

• Senior Officials’ Dialogue on Doha Round, WTO in conjunction with Centre for International Law, Singapore, 2011 & 2013, by the invitation of the WTO secretariat    

• WTO-UNESCAP Seminar on Regional Trade Agreements for Asian Government Officials, UN Office Bangkok, 2011 (as consultant to the WTO)    

• Stakeholder meeting, Sixth Round, Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty negotiations, Singapore, 2011    

• World Trade Organization, Regional Trade Policy Course under the auspices of the Doha Development Agenda, “Preferential Trade Agreements”, Singapore (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010) and New Delhi (2011)    

• Various roles as expert with Central Policy Unit, HKSAR since 2007, including meeting with members of the HKSAR’s Commission on Strategic Development    

• Strategic Discussion Group on PM Kevin Rudd’s proposal, by invitation of Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Australian Government, Australian Consulate-General HKSAR, 2007    

• Lectures, briefings, and chairing talks at various Singapore government agencies (2001-2007)