Prof. Bryan Mercurio is Professor and Vice Chancellor’s Outstanding Fellow of the Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), having served as Associate Dean (Research) from 2010-2014. Professor Mercurio is a leading expert in the field of international economic law (IEL), with a particular interest in WTO law, the intersection between IEL and intellectual property rights, free trade agreements and increasingly international investment law. He is the author of one of the most widely prescribed case books on WTO law (2012 2nd edition, Hart Publishing, with Simon Lester and Arwel Davies) and editor of the leading collection on bilateral and regional trade agreements (2015 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, with Simon Lester and Lorand Bartels). He has published articles in all of the leading trade journals (some of his work is available for download at http://ssrn.com/author=346439) and will soon be completing a three-year project funded by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council which investigates the pharmaceutical patent regime in Hong Kong with a view to making recommendations for regulatory amendments in line with the needs and priorities of Hong Kong.
Professor Mercurio has taught as a member of the faculty of law at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and as visitor at several universities in Australia and North America. He has held visiting positions at a number of institutions in Asia, Europe and the United States and is currently a Professorial Visiting Fellow at UNSW and Senior Fellow at the Melbourne Law School. Prior to joining the academy, Professor Mercurio worked both in government and in private practice. He continues to advise law firms, international organizations, NGOs and several governments on a wide range of international trade and investment matters.
An active participant in a number of associations, he was a member of the founding committee and served on the inaugural Executive Board of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), a founding member of the SIEL Intellectual Property Law Network, a founding member of the Asian International Economic Law Network and is a Member for Hong Kong in the Asian WTO Research Network. In 2010 he authored the case for the ELSA WTO Moot Court Competition and from 2013-2015 served as a member of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development/Evian Group E15 Expert Working Group on Trade and Innovation.