Law, Authoritarianism, and Democracy in Asia Symposium Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore 12 & 13 December 2016

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1 Law, Authoritarianism, and Democracy in Asia Symposium Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore 12 & 13 December 2016 BIOS OF SPEAKERS (sorted in alphabetical order by family name) Ngoc Son BUI is a Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, when he was previously a postdoctoral fellow. He is a PhD graduate from The University of Hong Kong. He also studied as a visiting researcher/scholar at Harvard Law School and Tsinghua Law School. He is the author of the book Confucian Constitutionalism in East Asia (Routledge, 2016). His works have appeared or been forthcoming in American Journal of Comparative Law, Law & Social Inquiry, University of Illinois Law Review, The Journal of Comparative Law, Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review, Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, among others. He has also published 8 books and numerous articles in Vietnamese. His research interests include Asian legal systems, Asian legal and political philosophy, Asian constitutional law, non-juricentric constitutional theory, and legal change in the contemporary socialist nations. David CAMPBELL is a Professor at Lancaster University Law School. He joined Lancaster in 2013 from Leeds University. Before Leeds he was professor at Durham University where he was for a time Head of the Law Department. Prior to Durham he had been professorial fellow at Cardiff University, had briefly held the Chair of Common Law at Leeds University and had been professor of law at Sheffield Hallam University. His subject area is English contract law. He emphasizes relationships between contract law and free markets and has written extensively on relational contract theory. His research interests are in the law of contract, the application of economic and social theories to law, and the theory and practice of regulation. His current teaching is largely in the law of contract, but he also teaches issues in business regulation and environmental regulation.

2 Tony CARTY is a Professor of Public Law at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland (on extended leave of absence) and The Cheng Yu Tung Chair Professor of International Law at Tsinghua University School of Law. He has specialized in public international law and within this discipline, within two broad areas, the theory and philosophy of the discipline and also the history of international law. He views the latter both as a system of ideas and also as the historical practice of states as reflected in their archival records. He is the author of The Decay of International Law, due to be reprinted by Manchester University Press and The Philosophy of International Law, for which a second edition is in preparation with Edinburgh University Press. He is also editor in chief of the Oxford Online Bibliography of International Law. Jianlin CHEN is an Assistant Professor of Law in the University of Hong Kong. Jianlin grew up in Singapore and Taiwan. He obtained his LLB from National University of Singapore, and his LLM and JSD from the University of Chicago. He is qualified to practice in Singapore and New York. Bilingual in English and Chinese, Dr Chen Jianlin publishes widely in law journals such as Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Law & Social Inquiry, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 北大法律评论, and has a monograph forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. His publications seemingly diverse subject matters of corporate law, securities regulations, insurance law, government procurement, natural resources management, historical conservation law, eminent domain, tax law, culture wars, law & religion is united by his research agenda of drawing on a combination of comparative perspectives and economic analysis to critically examine the unarticulated jurisprudential assumptions inherent in many areas of legal discourse. He teaches Economic Analysis of Law, Commercial Law, and Legal Scholarship (i.e., Dissertation; Guided Research), and previously taught Business Associations, and Contract Law. Weitseng CHEN is an Assistant Professor and the Deputy Director of Centre for Asian Legal Studies, at Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. He specializes in comparative Asian law with an emphasis on property law and financial institutions in East Asia particularly the greater China area. He received his JSD from Yale Law School where he was a Fulbright scholar. Thereafter, he worked for Stanford University as a Hewlett Fellow of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), conducting research on transitional economies and rule of law reforms. Immediately before he entered academia and joined NUS Faculty of Law, Weitseng Chen worked as a corporate lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. He specialized in crossborder transactions and represented top-tier investment banks and multinational companies in capital markets deals in the greater China area and Southeast Asia. Page 2 of 6

3 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 He has written and co-written several books and more than 150 articles, notes and commentaries. Richard's books include Federalism in Action (1990) and Media Law in the PRC (1996) (with H. L. Fu). His recent books are: Electing Hong Kong's Chief Executive (2010 (English (Chinese)) (with Simon Young); and Green Taxation in East Asia ( September) (Contributing Editor with Xu, Yan and Jefferson VanderWolk). Research: Comparative Public Law, Public Law, Comparative Taxation Law and Policy Jacques DELISLE is the Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, professor of political science, director of the Center for East Asian Studies, deputy director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China, and codirector of the Center for Asian Law at the University of Pennsylvania, and director of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. His writing, which appears in law reviews, foreign affairs journals, policy journals, edited volumes, and Internet and print media, focuses on China s engagement with the international legal order, domestic legal reform in China, and Taiwan s status and external relations. He is co-editor of China s Challenges (with Avery Goldstein, 2014), New Media, the Internet and a Changing China (with Avery Goldstein and Guobin Yang, 2016), Political Changes in Taiwan under Ma Ying-jeou (with Jean-Pierre Cabestan, 2014), China s Global Engagement (with Avery Goldstein), and China under Hu Jintao (with T.J. Cheng and Deborah Brown, 2005). Michael DOWDLE is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. Born in the United States, he graduated with a JD from the New York University School of Law in He was in-country program director for NYU Law's China Law Program from 1994 to 1997 in Beijing, where he was also a visiting professor at the Beijing University School of Law. From 1997 through 2000, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Columbia Law School's Center for Chinese Legal Studies. He was appointed Himalayas Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor in Comparative Constitutional Law at Qinghua University Law School in 2002; Fellow in Public Law at the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) of the Australian National University in 2003; and held the Chair in Globalization and Governance at Sciences Po in Paris in Since 2008, he has been on the faculty of NUS. His research interests are in comparative public law in particular public law and constitutionalism and in regulatory geography. Page 3 of 6

4 Hualing FU is a Professor at The University of Hong Kong. His research interests include constitutional law and human rights, with a special focus on criminal justice system and media law in China. His recent works include National Security and Fundamental Freedoms: Hong Kong s Article 23 Under Scrutiny (Hong Kong University Press, 2005) (co-edited with Carole Petersen and Simon Young) and The Struggle for Coherence: Constitutional Interpretation in Hong Kong (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) (co-edited with Lison Harris and Simon Young). He teaches Corruption, Human Rights in China, and Legal Relations between Hong Kong and Mainland China. His specialized areas are Human Rights, Comparative Criminal Law and Public Law. Tom GINSBURG is a Professor at The University of Chicago Law School. He focuses on comparative and international law from an interdisciplinary perspective. He holds BA, JD, and PhD degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. His books include Judicial Review in New Democracies (2003), which won the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association; The Endurance of National Constitutions (2009), which also won a best book prize from APSA; Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes (2014); and Law and Development in Middle-Income Countries (2014). He currently co-directs the Comparative Constitutions Project, an effort funded by the National Science Foundation to gather and analyze the constitutions of all independent nation-states since Before entering law teaching, he served as a legal adviser at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, The Hague, Netherlands, and he continues to work with numerous international development agencies and foreign governments on legal and constitutional reform. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Thomas KELLOGG is Director of East Asia for the Asia Pacific Regional Office, Open Society Foundations and lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School. At the Open Society Foundations, Kellogg focuses most closely on civil society development, legal reform, and human rights; he also oversees work on a range of other issues, including public health, environmental protection, and media development. Kellogg has written widely on legal reform in China, and has lectured on Chinese law at a number of universities in the United States and China. He has also taught courses on Chinese law at Fordham and Yale Law Schools. Before joining the Open Society Foundations, Kellogg was a senior fellow at the China Law Center at Yale Law School; prior to that, he worked as a researcher in the Asia Division of Human Rights Watch. He is a 2003 graduate of the Harvard Law School, where he was editor-inchief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal, and a 1996 graduate of Hamilton College. Page 4 of 6

5 Erik MOBRAND is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of International Studies at Seoul National University. A political scientist, he has written about election campaign laws, vigilante groups, gender quotas, and political parties in South Korea. His earlier research examined the uneven effects of policies on rural migrants to cities in China and South Korea. Erik's current research concerns legal governance of political parties in East and Southeast Asia. His articles have appeared in outlets including Journal of Asian Studies and Modern Asian Studies. Koichi NAKANO is Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University. His research focuses on a variety of issues of contemporary Japanese politics from comparative, historical, and philosophical perspectives, including globalization and nationalism; the Yasukuni problem; language, media and politics; amakudari and administrative reform in Japan; decentralization; and the cross-national transfer of policy ideas. He also has a keen interest in the politics of Britain, France, other western European countries, and the EU. He teaches a range of courses in the field of comparative politics, Japanese politics, and political theory, and as he does so, he strives to connect the normative and conceptual analyses with empirical studies of political phenomena. He has also been engaged in the civic movements in defense of constitutionalism since Eva PILS is Reader in Transnational Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law at King s College London. She studied law, philosophy and sinology in Heidelberg, London and Beijing and holds a PhD in law from University College London. Her scholarship focuses on human rights, authoritarianism, and law in China. She has written on these topics in both academic publications and the popular press, and is author of China's human rights lawyers: advocacy and resistance. Before joining King s, Eva was an associate professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. She is a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the US-Asia Law Institute of NYU Law School, an external member of the CUHK Centre for Social Innovation Studies, an external fellow of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and a legal action committee member of the Global Legal Action Network. Yen-tu SU is an Assistant Research Professor of Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica (IIAS) in Taiwan. He also serves as the Deputy Director of the Center for Empirical Legal Studies at IIAS. His research interests include the law of democracy, democratic theory, constitutional theory, judicial politics, and comparative constitutional law. In his published works, Su has sought to bridge and extend the interdisciplinary dialogues between doctrinal jurisprudence, comparative law and institutional design on the one hand, and democratic/political theory on the other. He also tries to integrate normative discourse with legal-political history and empirical studies. He received his S.J.D. from Harvard University in Page 5 of 6

6 Kevin TAN is an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. He graduated with LLB (Hons) from the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore in 1986 and joined the teaching staff of the same faculty that same year. Subsequently he obtained his LLM (Master of Laws) and JSD (Doctor in the Science of Law) at Yale Law School, being the first Singaporean to achieve the latter. From 1986 to 2000, he taught at the Law Faculty, specializing in Constitutional and Administrative Law, Law and Government, Law and Society and International Human Rights. He has published widely in his areas of specialization and has written and edited some 30 books on the law, history and politics of Singapore. He is currently a director of Equilibrium Consulting Pte Ltd; Adjunct Professor, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University; Editor-in-Chief, Asian Yearbook of International Law and Editorial Board member, Korean Journal of International & Comparative Law. Page 6 of 6