Keynote Speakers:
Rong-Chwan Chen (PhD in Law, National Cheng-chi University, Taiwan) is a University Distinguished Professor at National Taipei University, where he served as the Chairperson of Department of Judicial Studies from 2005 to 2007 and Chairperson of Department of Law from 2010 to 2012. He is an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL/AIDC) and concurrently serves as a vice president of the Taiwan Association of Private International Law and a vice president of the Taiwan Jurist Association. Before joining National Taipei University in 2004, he was a Professor at Soochow University School of Law, Taiwan. He was appointed as a Commissioner of the Fair Trade Commission to enforce Taiwan’s antitrust law in 2009. His work, focusing on issues of private international law and the law of property, is published in several books and more than 200 articles and chapters. In particular, he was appointed as the key drafter to prepare the comprehensive revising draft of Taiwan’s Act on Choice of Law in Civil Matters Involving Foreign Elements and its explanatory comments. After the Congress passed the enactment in 2010, he prepared its English translation which is now widely accessed on the government website and internationally circulated.
Prof. Yun ZHAO is Henry Cheng Professor in International Law and Associate Dean (Mainland Affairs), Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong (HKU); PhD (Erasmus University Rotterdam); LLM (Leiden University); LLM & LLB (China University of Political Science and Law). Prof. Zhao is currently Representative of Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH); Standing Council Member of Chinese Society of Private International Law; Standing Council Member of Chinese Society of International Law; Council Member of Chinese Law Society; Council Member of Zhuhai International Court of Arbitration. He is listed as arbitrator in several international arbitration commissions.
Speakers / Moderators:
Since taking up a full-time appointment at CUHK Faculty of Law in 2009 Alan Gibb has taught Conflict of Laws on both the LLB and JD programmes. He has been the editor of the 2019, 2022 and 2024 issues of Conflict of Laws Halsbury’s Laws of Hong Kong. His publications include Mainland China: forum non conveniens Hong Kong Lawyer 2011; Asian Conflict of Laws East and South East Asia , Hong Kong Chapter 2015, An Introduction to Conflict of Laws in Hong Kong , co-author with Richard Morris and Professor Dicky Tsang , third edition to be published in 2025 and Conflicting Limitation Periods : A Comparison between Hong Kong And Mainland China, Cardozo International and Comparative Law Review Fall 2021 Volume 5 Issue1 –joint author with Professor Dicky Tsang. He has also presented a seminar on The Effectiveness of Jurisdiction Clauses in Settling Hong Kong Forum Disputes in the CUHK Cross-Border Legal Issue Series.
Mr. Junhyok JANG is a professor of private international law at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in Seoul, South Korea. After studying at the University of Chicago, Stanford Law School and New York University, he obtained a Ph.D. degree at Seoul National University, submitting a thesis on the extraterritorial application of antitrust laws. He also practised briefly for Kim, Chang & Lee before he began teaching. He was a member of the law reform commission for adding jurisdiction provisions to the revised Korean Private International Law Act (2022) and the Korean delegation for the 2019 Hague Judgments Convention. He is now participating in the Working Group for the Jurisdiction Project at the Hague Conference on Private International Law. His recent research includes general jurisdiction, special jurisdiction in trusts, employment contract, and torts including intellectual property infringement, as well as some preliminary issues in choice of law.
Professor Jiao Yan is currently an Associate Professor in Nanjing University, where she teaches private international law and international litigation. She earned her PhD from Wuhan University. Prof. Jiao was a visiting scholar at Willamette University and Duke Univeristy. She is also a council member of Chinese Society of Private International law. So far, she has published a book and multiple siginificant journal articles in core Mainland China academic journals.
Jin is recognised in Chambers and Partners 2021 as a “practical, meticulous and user-friendly” and praised for his “perfect advocacy skills”. He actively accepts instructions in a broad spectrum of civil commercial matters, where he has a particular interest in cases with international dimensions. He also has significant experience in constitutional and administrative law, human rights and judicial review cases generally. Jin has also been instructed as an expert witness on Hong Kong law in proceedings in the BVI, Canada and the United States.
Dr Poomintr Sooksripaisarnkit is a Lecturer in Maritime Law at the Australian Maritime College, University of Tasmania. He is also a Senior Research Associate within the Research Centre for Private International Law in Emerging Countries, University of Johannesburg. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is on the Panel of Arbitrators of Thailand Arbitration Center (THAC) and of the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA). He is also on the Panel of Arbitrators and the Panel of Neutrals under eBRAM APEC Rules of the eBRAM International Online Dispute Resolution Centre. His research interests lie in commercial conflict of laws (private international law), insurance law (marine and non-marine), carriage of good by sea, international sale of goods carried by sea, private aspects of admiralty and maritime law, and aspects of international arbitration. His recent publications include: Poomintr Sooksripaisarnkit, ‘Blockchain-based bills of lading and the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records: questions of compatibility’ in Rishi Gulati, Thomas John, and Ben Köhler (eds), The Elgar Companion to UNCITRAL (Edward Elgar 2023) 525; Poomintr Sooksripaisarnkit and Krisda Saengcharoensap, ‘Thailand’ in Kazuaki Nishioka (ed), Treatment of Foreign Law in Asia (Hart Publishing 2023) 239.
Dr. Dicky Tsang is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His main research areas are private international law and company law. His work has appeared in a number of leading international journals, including the Virginia Journal of International Law, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and multiple articles in the Journal of Private International Law. His works have been cited by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the Supreme Court of Missouri, and the European Union (in a WTO dispute-settlement case).
Prior to joining academia, he practised as a corporate finance lawyer at Linklaters and Shearman & Sterling, working in their New York, London, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai offices. He is admitted to practice in the state of New York, England & Wales and Hong Kong.
Dr. Tsang was awarded his LL.B. and PCLL at the University of Hong Kong. He also holds degrees from Georgetown University (S.J.D.), Columbia University (LL.M., J.D.) and University College London (LL.M.).
Prof. Dr. Guangjian Tu is currently a Full Professor of Law, University of Macau, a life member of Clare Hall (Cambridge University), an elected associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and a Standing Member of the Chinese Society of Private International Law and also a Standing Member of the Association of Great China Judicial Studies. He is an editor for Chinese Journal of International Law and the global blog of www.conflictoflaws.net and regularly invited to review papers by international journals. He formally started his academic career at the University of Macau in September 2007. Since then, he has been teaching and researching in the field of Private International Law, especially Chinese inter-regional conflict of laws. So far, he has published three monographs and tens of academic articles in widely-circulated international journals and the core Mainland China academic journals.