CAPSULE BIOGRAPHY PASHA L. HSIEH Assistant Professor of Law Singapore Management University School of Law Lee Kong Chian School of Business Building 50 Stamford Road, Level 4, Singapore 178899 Tel: +65 6828 0345 Fax: +65 6828 0805 pashahsieh@smu.edu.sg www.law.smu.edu.sg Pasha L. Hsieh is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Singapore Management University School of Law. He holds Juris Doctor and LL.M. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was a Senior Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Prior to joining academia, he served as a Legal Affairs Officer at the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization and as an associate at Shearman & Sterling LLP. He has been the Managing Editor of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs since 2006. Hsieh s research focuses on international economic law, international law and East Asian legal studies. He is particularly interested in the roles of China and ASEAN in international law and cross-taiwan Strait relations, and has published articles in the Michigan Journal of International Law, the Journal of World Trade and the Journal of International Economic Law. His works have been cited by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland as well as in leading texts on international law such as Max Plank Encyclopedia of Public International Law and International Law: Cases and Materials with Australian Perspectives (Cambridge University Press). He was awarded Singapore s Lee Foundation Fellowship for Research Excellence in 2010 and was the co-organizer of the International Law Association Asia-Pacific Regional Conference in 2011. APPOINTMENTS Singapore Management University School of Law, Singapore, 2009-present Assistant Professor of Law; teaching courses on Law of International Trade and Ethics and Social Responsibility; Member, External Relations Committee; Faculty Mooting Committee National Chengchi University College of Law, Taipei, Taiwan, 2010-11 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law; taught 2-week courses on International Economic Law and International Business Law National Chung Cheng University Department of Law, Chiayi, Taiwan, 2009 Assistant Professor of Law; taught courses on Public International Law, International Economic Law and Introduction to American Law Shearman & Sterling LL.P., Washington, D.C., 2005; 2007-08 Associate, Litigation Department; contributed to FCPA Digest of Cases and Review Releases Relating to Bribes to Foreign Officials under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 1
World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2006-07 Legal Affairs Officer; Intern, Appellate Body Secretariat Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, 2004 Judicial Intern to the Honorable Doris A. Smith-Ribner Coast Guard Administration of the Republic of China, Penghu, Taiwan, 2000-02 Platoon Leader; Lecturer in Law (military service) EDUCATION J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia PA, May 2006 Honors: Senior Editor, University of Pennsylvania Law Review; drafted the Taiwan, ROC section of Bluebook (18 th ed. 2005) Certificate in Business and Public Policy, Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, May 2006 LL.M., University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia PA, May 2003 LL.B., National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, July 2000 Honors: Best Oralist Award, Taiwan National Round of the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition Intermediate Turkish Language Certificate, Foreign Languages Studies Center of Ankara University (TOMER), Istanbul, Turkey, August 1999 HONORS, AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS Singapore Management University Research Grants, 2011-13 Lee Foundation Fellowship for Research Excellence, 2010-11 Co-organizer, International Law Association Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, 2011 Paper ( APEC as a Trans-regional Economic Governance Architecture: A Critical Assessment with Reform Proposals ) selected for Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) Biennial Conference, National University of Singapore, 2012 Paper ( The Roadmap for an ASEAN-US FTA: Legal and Geopolitical Considerations ) selected for American Society of International Law - International Economic Law Interest Group (ASIL-IEcLIG) Biennial Conference, University of Minnesota Law School, 2010 2
Co-coach, SMU Monroe E. Price International Media Law Moot Court Team, International Round at Oxford University: Overall Winners and Best Combined Memorials, 2010 PUBLICATIONS Academic Articles 1. Pasha L. Hsieh (forthcoming 2012), Does Free Trade Matter for Poverty Reduction? The Case of ASEAN, in Dishing up the Pie: Bringing the Poor to the Table of International Economic Law, Cambridge University Press (Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer ed.) 2. Pasha L. Hsieh (2012), The Roadmap for a Prospective US-ASEAN FTA: Legal and Geopolitical Considerations, Journal of World Trade, 46:2, pp. 367-396 3. Pasha L. Hsieh & Dairong Wu (2012), An Analysis of the Cross-Strait ECFA under the WTO Legal System, The Taiwan Law Review, 203 (in Chinese), pp. 77-107 4. Pasha L. Hsieh & Xiaoling Li (2011), WTO Legal Capacity Building: The Case of China, Chinese (Taiwan) Review of International and Transnational Law, 7:1, pp. 31-74 (in Chinese) 5. Pasha L. Hsieh (2011), The China-Taiwan ECFA, Geopolitical Dimensions and WTO Law, Journal of International Economic Law, Oxford University Press, 14:1, pp. 121-156 6. Pasha L. Hsieh (2010), China s Development of International Economic Law and WTO Legal Capacity Building, Journal of International Economic Law, Oxford University Press, 13:4, pp. 997-1036 7. Pasha L. Hsieh (2009), The Taiwan Question and the One-China Policy: Legal Challenges with Renewed Momentum, Die Friedens-Warte: Journal of International Peace and Organization, Berlin University Press, 84:3, pp. 59-81 8. Pasha L. Hsieh (2009), The Legal Status of Taiwan in United State Courts, Taiwan International Law Quarterly, 6:2, pp. 53-84 (in Chinese) 9. Pasha L. Hsieh (2009), The WTO Appellate Body and the Appellate Review Process, Chinese (Taiwan) Review of International and Transnational Law, 5:1, pp.173-200 (in Chinese) 10. Pasha L. Hsieh (2009), China-United States Trade Negotiations and Disputes: The WTO and Beyond, Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy, 4:2, pp. 369-399 3
Reprinted in World Trade Organization: Law and Economics (The Icfai University Press, R Satyanarayana ed. 2010), pp. 162-95 11. Pasha L. Hsieh (2008), China-Taiwan Trade Relations: Implications of the WTO and Asian Regionalism, in Trading Arrangements in the Pacific Rim: ASEAN and APEC, Oxford University Press (Paul Davidson ed.), III.C.14, pp. 1-18 12. Pasha L. Hsieh (2007), An Unrecognized State in Foreign and International Courts: The Case of the Republic of China on Taiwan, Michigan Journal of International Law, 28:4, pp. 765-814 Cited in Republic of China (Taiwan) v. International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, Sept. 9, 2010 Excerpt reprinted in International Law: Cases and Materials with Australian Perspectives (Donald R. Rothwell et al. eds, Cambridge University Press 2010), pp. 228-29 13. Pasha L. Hsieh (2005), International Legal Education and Career in the United States, Chinese Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, vol. 17, pp. 604-17 (in Chinese) 14. Pasha L. Hsieh (2005), Facing China: Taiwan s Status as a Separate Customs Territory in the World Trade Organization, Journal of World Trade, 39:6, pp. 1195-1221 Book Reviews and Other Short Works 1. Pasha L. Hsieh & Pei-Lun Tsai (2009), Cross-Strait Agreements: 1990 2009, Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, Cameron May, vol. 27, pp. 164-227 2. Pasha L. Hsieh & Frank Hao-chin Jen (2009), Selected Bibliography on China and International Law (1960-2009), Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, Cameron May, vol. 27, pp. 489-97 3. Pasha L. Hsieh (2006), Bibliography of Books and Articles on International and Comparative Law Relevant to Taiwan (2000-2006), Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, Cameron May, vol. 24, pp. 443-53 4. Pasha L. Hsieh (2005), Book Review, China s Participation in the WTO (Henry Gao & Donald Lewis eds. 2005), Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, Cameron May, vol. 23, pp. 259-61 5. Pasha L. Hsieh (2005), Book Review, Legal Problems of International Economic Relations, Chinese Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, vol. 17, pp. 696-99 (in Chinese) SELECTED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS 4
1. A Possible Roadmap for an ASEAN-US FTA & International Law Development in the Republic of China, Third Cross-Strait International Law Forum, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, Nov. 2011 2. The Free Trade Regime and Poverty Reduction: The ASEAN Case, University of Basel Faculty of Law Conference, Basel, Switzerland, Oct. 2011 3. The Roadmap for an ASEAN-US FTA: Legal and Geopolitical Considerations, New York State Bar Association Meeting, Panama City, Panama, Sept. 2011 4. China-Taiwan ECFA, East Asian Regionalism and WTO Rules, International Law Association Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, The Regent Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2011 5. America s Return to Asia? A Proposal for an ASEAN-United States FTA, EMC² Asia- Pacific Regional Round Academic Conference, National Taiwan University College of Law, Mar. 2011 6. The Roadmap for an ASEAN-US FTA: Legal and Geopolitical Considerations, American Society of International Law - International Economic Law Interest Group (ASIL-IEcLIG) Biennial Conference, University of Minnesota Law School, Nov. 2010 7. ASEAN-US Trade Relations: Legal and Policy Dimensions, HKU-NUS-SMU Symposium, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, Nov. 2010 8. Cross-Straits ECFA and WTO Rules, Second Cross-Strait International Law Forum, Tsing Hua University School of Law, Beijing, P.R. China, Oct. 2010 9. East Asian Regionalism and the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement: Legal, Political and Economic Implications, 7th Asian Law Institute Conference, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2010 10. Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) and East Asian Regionalism: Legal-Geopolitical Dimensions, SMU School of Law Research Camp, Singapore, Apr. 2010 11. WTO Legal Capacity Building: A Pragmatic Perspective, First Cross-Strait International Law Forum, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 2009 12. China-United States Trade Disputes: Protectionism and International Law Implications, New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, Oct. 2009 5
13. China s Rise and Its Trade Relations with the United States, Division of International Studies International Conference; University of Nottingham, Ningbo, P.R. China, Sept. 2009 14. China-US Trade Disputes: The WTO and Beyond, International Conference on the Future of the WTO, Asian Center for WTO and International Health Law and Policy, National Taiwan University Law School, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2009 15. WTO Dispute Settlement: Appellate Proceedings, Second Annual Conference of the Association of International Relations, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, May 2009 16. US Legal Research: Theory and Practice, Institute of Law for Science and Technology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Apr. 20009 17. Foreign-trained Lawyers in the US Legal Market, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, Sept. 2007 18. WTO Dispute Settlement: Theory and Practice, Bureau of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2007 19. WTO Proceedings: Panel and Appellate Body, Chun Hua Institution for Economic Research, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2007 20. Career in International Law and International Trade, Asian Center for WTO and International Health Law and Policy, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 2006 OTHER ACTIVITIES Managing Editor, Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, CMP Publishing/Cameron May, London, 2006-present Ad hoc reviewer, Melbourne Journal of International Law, 2012 Ad hoc reviewer, Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy, 2009-10 Panelist, ELSA WTO Moot Court Competition, Asia Regional Round and International Round, Taipei, Taiwan, April-May 2009; March 2010; March 2011 Judge, Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, Northeast Regional Round & International Round, New York and Washington DC, February-April 2008 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 6
Member, Society of International Economic Law, 2011-present Vice Secretary-General, Chinese (Taiwan) Society of International Law - ILA-Chinese (Taiwan) Branch, 2010-present Associate, Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore, 2010-present Research Fellow, Research Center for International Legal Studies, National Chengchi University, 2010-present Member, Professional Values Chapter, Singapore Academy of Law, 2009-11 Attorney and Counselor-at-law, New York State Bar, 2008-present Member, American Society of International Law (International Economic Law Interest Group), 2008-present LANGUAGES English, Mandarin Chinese, Hakka and Taiwanese (fluent); Turkish and French (limited) 7