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 CAPSULE BIOGRAPHY Pasha L. Hsieh ( 謝笠天 ) 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 teaching and research focus on public international law, international economic law and East Asian legal studies. He is particularly interested in the roles of ASEAN and China in international law and cross-taiwan Strait relations, and has published articles in the Journal of International Economic Law, the Journal of World Trade and the Michigan Journal of International Law. His works have been cited by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, the European Parliament and the OECD. Hsieh was awarded SMU s Lee Foundation Fellowship for Research Excellence in 2010 and received the Most Outstanding LGST (Legal Studies) Teacher Award in 2015. He also co-convened the International Law Association (ILA) Asia-Pacific Regional Conference and the ILA-American Society of International Law Asia-Pacific Research Forum. APPOINTMENTS Singapore Management University School of Law, Singapore, 2009-present Assistant Professor of Law Courses: J.D./LL.B. and LGST International Law and Global Politics; LL.M. & LL.B. Law Study Mission (Taiwan) & Common Law Workshop; LGST Law of International Trade; LGST Ethics and Social Responsibility Member, External Relations Committee & Faculty Mooting Committee Visiting Faculty: The Pearl River Delta Academy of International Trade and Investment Law, Macau (2014-15); National Chengchi University College of Law, Taiwan (2010-11) 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 World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2006-07 Legal Affairs Officer; Intern, Appellate Body Secretariat 1
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, 2004 Judicial Intern to the Honorable Doris A. Smith-Ribner Coast Guard Administration, Penghu, Taiwan, 2000-02 Second Lieutenant, Platoon Leader (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, 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 HONORS AND RECOGNITIONS SMU School of Law Most Outstanding LGST (Legal Studies) Teacher Award, 2015 Paper ( Trade in Legal Services Liberalization in Asia-Pacific FTAs: Assessing the Convergence of ASEAN Rules ) selected for the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) Biennial Conference, World Trade Institute, Bern, Switzerland, 2014 Paper ( The Discipline of International Law in Republican China and Contemporary Taiwan ) selected for the Second Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law, University of Nottingham, 2013 Among 8 assistant/associate professors selected for the Forum; Organizers: Professors Dino Kritsiotis of Nottingham Law School, Anne Orford of Melbourne Law School and J.H.H. Weiler of NYU Law School SMU Lee Foundation Fellowship for Research Excellence, 2010-11 Paper ( Reassessing APEC s Role in Trans-Pacific Economic Governance Architecture: Legal and Policy Dimensions ) selected for the American Society of International Law - International Economic Law Interest Group (ASIL-IEcLIG) Biennial Conference, George Washington School Law School, 2012 RESEARCH GRANTS SMU MOE Tier 1 Research Grant ( Assessing the Trade-Development Nexus: The Case of ASEAN and the RCEP ), 2014-2016 2
SMU MOE Tier 1 Research Grant ( The Liberalization and Integration of Legal Services in ASEAN: A Roadmap for Reforms ), 2014-15 SMU MOE Tier 1 Research Grant ( The Discipline of International Law in Republican China and Contemporary Taiwan ), 2013-14 SMU Internal Research Grant ( The Free Trade Regime and Poverty Reduction: The Case of ASEAN ), 2012-13 SMU Internal Research Grant ( The Roadmap for an ASEAN-United States Free Trade Agreement: Legal and Geopolitical Considerations ), 2011-12 EDITORIAL AND REVIEW ACTIVITIES Managing Editor, Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (Brill Nijhoff, 2015-present; CMP Publishing/Cameron May, 2006-14) Ad hoc reviewer for: Journal of Economic Policy Reform (Routledge 2015) Issues & Studies (2015) Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy (2009, 2010, 2015) Journal of International Trade Law and Policy (2014) Journal of World Investment and Trade (Brill 2014) EurAmerica (Academia Sinica 2014) Pearson Publishing (2014) China: An International Journal (2013) Asian Journal of International Law (Cambridge University Press 2013) Leiden Journal of International Law (Cambridge University Press 2013) The Pacific Review (2013) Journal of International Dispute Settlement (Oxford University Press 2012) Melbourne Journal of International Law (2012) PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICES Member, Conference Committee, SIEL Biennial Conference, Bern, Switzerland, 2014 & Johannesburg, South Africa, 2016 Co-organizer, SMU-Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) Research Forum, Singapore, 2014; 2016 & London, 2015 Member, Conference Committee, 2015 Joint International Economic Law Asia Conference, Bali, Indonesia, 2015 Co-Chair, ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum, Taipei, Taiwan, 2013 & 2015 Speaker, SMU CLE Seminar: Assessing Asia-Pacific FTAs: Legal and Business Perspectives, Singapore, 2014 Panelist, ELSA WTO Moot Court Competition, Asia Regional Round and International Round, Taipei, Taiwan, 2009-2011 & Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (graded written submissions), 2014 3
Speaker, SMU CLE Seminar: The Privatization of Public International Law: Implications for Cross-Border Transactions, Singapore, 2013 Judge, Harry Elias Partnership-SMU Moot Court Competition, Singapore, 2011 & 2013 Co-organizer, ILA Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011 Co-coach, SMU Monroe E. Price International Media Law Moot Court Team (Overall Winners and Best Combined Memorials, International Round at the University of Oxford, 2010) Judge, Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, Northeast Regional Round & International Round, New York & Washington, DC, 2008 PUBLICATIONS Academic Articles 1. Pasha L. Hsieh (forthcoming 2016), Chapter 8: ASEAN Trade in Services, in ASEAN Law and Regional Integration: Governance and the Rule of Law in Southeast Asia s Single Market, Routledge (David Cohen & Diane Desierto eds.) 2. Pasha L. Hsieh (forthcoming 2016), Legitimacy of Taiwan s Trade Negotiations with China: Demystifying Political Challenges, Political Science, 68:1 3. Pasha L. Hsieh (2015), Liberalizing Trade in Legal Services under Asia-Pacific FTAs: The ASEAN Case, Journal of International Economic Law, 18:1, pp. 153-85 Summary of findings featured in Pasha Hsieh, The ASEAN Economic Community and the Legal Services Market, Singapore Law Blog, http://www.singaporelawblog.sg/blog/article/70 (Dec. 19, 2014) 4. Pasha L. Hsieh (2015), The Discipline of International Law in Republican China and Contemporary Taiwan, Washington University Global Studies Law Review, 14:1, pp. 87-129 A revised version published as Pasha L. Hsieh (forthcoming 2016), The Transplantation of Western International Law in Republican China, in Legal Thoughts Between the East and the West in the Multilevel Legal Order A Festschrift in honor of Professor Herbert H.P. Ma, Springer (Chang-Fa Lo ed.) 5. Pasha L. Hsieh (2013), ASEAN s Liberalization of Legal Services: The Singapore Case, Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy, 8:2, pp. 475-497 6. Pasha L. Hsieh (2013), Reassessing APEC s Role as a Trans-Regional Economic Architecture: Legal and Policy Dimensions, Journal of International Economic Law, 16:1, pp. 119-158 An abridged version published as Pasha L. Hsieh (2015), APEC S Soft-Law Mechanism and the Multilateral Trading System, in The WTO at 20 and the Future of the International Economic Law The Asia-Pacific Perspectives, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Won-mog Choi ed.), pp. 74-102 4
7. Pasha L. Hsieh (2013), 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.), pp. 107-120 8. 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 Featured in Knowledge@SMU & Research Excellence at Singapore Management University (2012) 9. Pasha L. Hsieh (2011), The China-Taiwan ECFA, Geopolitical Dimensions and WTO Law, Journal of International Economic Law, 14:1, pp. 121-156 A revised version published as Pasha L. Hsieh (2015), China-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement, in Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements: Case Studies, Cambridge University Press (Bryan Mercurio et al eds.), pp. 97-113 10. Pasha L. Hsieh (2010), China s Development of International Economic Law and WTO Legal Capacity Building, Journal of International Economic Law, 13:4, pp. 997-1036 11. 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 12. 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 Reprinted in World Trade Organization: Law and Economics, The Icfai University Press (R Satyanarayana ed., 2010), pp. 162-95 13. 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., 2008), III.C.14, pp. 1-18 14. 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 Excerpted in International Law: Cases and Materials with Australian Perspectives, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press (Donald R. Rothwell et al. eds., 2014), pp. 283-84 15. 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 Shorter Works 1. Pasha L. Hsieh & Pei-Lun Tsai (2010), Cross-Straits Economic Cooperation Agreement (ECFA), Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, Cameron May, vol. 28, pp. 204-25 5
2. Pasha L. Hsieh & Pei-Lun Tsai (2010), Foreign Judgments Concerning the Legal Status of Taiwan, Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, Cameron May, vol. 28, pp. 226-45 3. 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 4. 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 5. 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 Publications in Chinese 1. Pasha L. Hsieh & Dairong Wu (2012), An Analysis of the Cross-Strait ECFA under the WTO Legal System, The Taiwan Law Review, 203, pp. 77-107 2. 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 3. Pasha L. Hsieh (2009), The Legal Status of Taiwan in United State Courts, Taiwan International Law Quarterly, 6:2, pp. 53-84 4. 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 5. 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 6. Pasha L. Hsieh (2005), Book Review, Legal Problems of International Economic Relations, Chinese Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, vol. 17, pp. 696-99 SELECTED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS 1. Congressional Review of Cross-Straits Trade Agreements, Peking University Law School, Beijing, China, Dec. 2015 2. Perspectives of Asia-Pacific RTAs: Building Blocks or Stumbling Blocks? Third Singapore WTO Policy Dialogue on the World Trading System for Senior Government Officials from Asia and the Pacific, Singapore, Oct. 2015 6
3. Assessing the Development Dimension in Trade Agreements: The Case of the Emerging ASEAN Economic Community and the RCEP, Joint Asian International Economic Law Conference, Bali, Indonesia, July 2015 4. Investment Treaties and Regional Integration in Asia, The Pearl River Delta Academy of International Trade and Investment Law, Macau, July 2015 5. The Legal Services Markets in Singapore and ASEAN, SMU-QMUL Research Forum, London, June 2015 6. Assessing the Development Dimension in Trade Agreements: The Case of the Emerging ASEAN Economic Community and the RCEP, ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2015 7. New Challenges to the Trade-Development Nexus: The Case of ASEAN and the RCEP, ASLI Conference, National Taiwan University College of Law, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2015 8. Examining the Liberalization of ASEAN s Legal Services Market: Challenges and Reforms, InterLaw Asia Pacific Meeting, Singapore, Feb. 2015 9. Asia-Pacific FTAs and the Liberalization of Legal Services, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Dec. 2014 10. Development of International Law in Republican China, Cross-Straits International Law Forum, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 2014 11. Examining ASEAN s Legal Services Market: Challenges and Reforms, SMU School of Law Research Forum, Singapore, Nov. 2014 12. Examining ASEAN s Legal Services Market: Challenges and Reforms, Korean Society of International Economic Law Conference, Seoul, Korea, Nov. 2014 13. Regional Integration in Asia, Academy of International Investment and Trade Law, Institute of European Studies of Macau, July 2014 14. Trade in Legal Services Liberalization in Asia-Pacific FTAs: Assessing the Convergence of ASEAN Rules, SIEL Biennial Conference, World Trade Institute, Bern, Switzerland, July 2014 15. International Law Advising in Imperial and Republican China, University of Utah, May 2014 16. Domestic Procedures for Ratifying Trade Agreements: The Case of Singapore, National Chengchi University College of Law, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2014 17. International Law and ROC Diplomacy, Institute of Technology Law, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Dec. 2013 7
18. Rapporteur, WTO Dialogue on the World Trading System for Senior Government Officials from Asia and Pacific, Singapore, Oct. 2013 19. The Discipline of International Law and Diplomacy in Republican China, Xiamen University, China, Sept. 2013 20. The Soft-Law Mechanism of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and the Multilateral Trading System, SIEL-Asian International Economic Law Network, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, July 2013 21. The Liberalization of Legal Services in ASEAN, Asian WTO Research Network Conference, National Taiwan University Faculty of Law, Taipei, June 2013 22. The Discipline of International Law in Republican China and Contemporary Taiwan, Second Annul Junior Faculty Forum in International Law, University of Nottingham School of Law, May 2013 23. The Discipline of International Law in Republican China and Contemporary Taiwan, Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Journal Conference, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, May 2013 24. The Discipline of International Law in Republican China and Contemporary Taiwan, ILA- ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2013 25. The Discipline of International Law in Republican China and Contemporary Taiwan, NUS-SMU-HKU Symposium, National University of Singapore Faculty of Law, Jan. 2013 26. Reassessing APEC s Role as a Trans-Regional Economic Architecture: Legal and Policy Dimensions, ASIL-IEcLIG Biennial Conference, George Washington University Law School, Nov. 2012 27. China s WTO Legal Capacity Building and Implications for the New Economic Order, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Nov. 2012 28. APEC as a Trans-Regional Economic Governance Architecture: A Critical Assessment with Reform Proposals, SIEL Biennial Conference, National University of Singapore, May 2012 29. The China-Taiwan ECFA, East Asian Regionalism and WTO Rules, Korean Society of International Economic Law Conference, Seoul National University, June 2012 30. The Free Trade Regime and Poverty Reduction: The ASEAN Case, 9th Asian Law Institute Conference, National University of Singapore, May 2012 31. 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 8
32. The Free Trade Regime and Poverty Reduction: The ASEAN Case, University of Basel Faculty of Law Conference, Basel, Switzerland, Oct. 2011 33. The Roadmap for an ASEAN-US FTA: Legal and Geopolitical Considerations, New York State Bar Association Meeting, Panama City, Panama, Sept. 2011 34. China-Taiwan ECFA, East Asian Regionalism and WTO Rules, ILA Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2011 35. 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, Taipei, Taiwan, Mar. 2011 36. The Roadmap for an ASEAN-US FTA: Legal and Geopolitical Considerations, ASIL- IEcLIG Biennial Conference, University of Minnesota Law School, Nov. 2010 37. ASEAN-US Trade Relations: Legal and Policy Dimensions, HKU-NUS-SMU Symposium, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, Nov. 2010 38. Cross-Straits ECFA and WTO Rules, Second Cross-Strait International Law Forum, Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing, China, Oct. 2010 39. East Asian Regionalism and the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement: Legal, Political and Economic Implications, Asian Law Institute Conference, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2010 40. Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) and East Asian Regionalism: Legal-Geopolitical Dimensions, SMU School of Law Research Camp, Singapore, Apr. 2010 41. WTO Legal Capacity Building: A Pragmatic Perspective, First Cross-Strait International Law Forum, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 2009 42. 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 43. China s Rise and Its Trade Relations with the United States, Division of International Studies International Conference; University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China, Sept. 2009 44. 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 45. US Legal Research: Theory and Practice, Institute of Law for Science and Technology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Apr. 2009 9
46. Foreign-trained Lawyers in the US Legal Market, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, Sept. 2007 47. WTO Dispute Settlement: Theory and Practice, Bureau of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2007 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS LANGUAGES Member, ILA Study Group on Preferential Trade Agreements, 2014-present Member, ILA Committee on Recognition/Non-recognition in International Law, 2012- present Member, Society of International Economic Law, 2011-present Deputy Secretary-General, Chinese (Taiwan) Society of International Law & Treasurer, 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, 2008-present English, Mandarin Chinese, Hakka and Taiwanese (fluent); Turkish and French (limited) 10