HK Faculty Bios as of 20 Mar 2014

Hong Kong Summer Program
Faculty for Summer 2014
Lee Mason
Assistant Professor of Law
LLB (Hons), LLM (Distinction), MCIArb
Barrister-at-Law (England & Wales)
Mediator (CEDR & HKMAAL Accredited)
Lee Mason teaches on both the JD and LLB programmes, primarily in the area of Contract Law
which, prior to joining HKU, he also taught at a top law school in Germany. He is the Contract
Law Course Convenor for the LLB Programme, Deputy Director of the JD Programme, Resident
Director of the Santa Clara University School of Law Summer Abroad Programme and also
serves as Articles Editor for the Hong Kong Law Journal. Lee Mason is regularly consulted to
opine on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious contractual issues arising in
commercial practice.
Dr Mi Zhou
Director of Legal Research and Writing
PhD, University of Cambridge
MA, University of NSW
BA/LLB, University of NSW
Solicitor, NSW Australia
Dr Mi Zhou received her BA (Honours and University Medal) and LLB, as well as her MA in
International Relations from the University of New South Wales. She earned her PhD from the
University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Scholar and recipient of the Overseas Research
Studentship. She was a Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University College London for
two years, where she taught, among other things, research and writing methodology, minority
rights, and migration law.
She began her law career as a solicitor in corporate practice. From 2004 and 2010, she worked as
a legal advisor to various NGOs on refugee law, minority rights, and post-conflict governance in
Cairo, Cape Town, and Kosovo. Prior to joining HKU, Mi served with the UN for almost two
years in Pakistan, working on resettlement of refugees, as well as conducting research on human
trafficking and people smuggling.
Her areas of interest include human rights; minority rights; refugee law; law and the humanities;
and legal/critical theory. She currently teaches legal research and writing, tort law, and legal
systems.
Professor Douglas Arner
Professor
Head, Department of Law
Director, LLM (Corporate & Financial Law)
Co-Director, Duke University-HKU Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law
BA(Drury), JD(SMU), LLM, PhD (London)
Professor Douglas W. Arner is the Head of the Department of Law and a Professor at the Faculty
of Law of the University of Hong Kong. In addition, at HKU, he is Director of the LLM
(Corporate and Financial Law) and Co-Director of the Duke University-HKU Asia-America
Institute in Transnational Law. He is a Visiting Research Fellow of the University of New South
Wales and a Senior Fellow of Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne.
Prior to his current appointment, Douglas served as Director of HKU’s Asian Institute of
International Financial Law from 2006-2011. Before joining HKU in 2000, he was the Sir John
Lubbock Support Fund Fellow at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) at Queen
Mary, University of London, and a consultant with the European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (EBRD).
Douglas specialises in economic and financial law, regulation and development. He is author,
co-author or editor of eleven books, including From Crisis to Crisis: The Global Financial
System and Regulatory Failure (Kluwer), Financial Stability, Economic Growth and the Role of
Law (Cambridge University Press) and Financial Markets in Hong Kong: Law and Practice
(Oxford University Press), and is author or co-author of more than 100 articles, chapters and
reports on related subjects. His recent papers are available through SSRN at
http://ssrn.com/author=524849.
Douglas has served as a consultant with, among others, the World Bank, Asian Development
Bank, APEC, EBRD and Development Bank of Southern Africa. He has lectured, co- organised
conferences and seminars and been involved with financial sector reform projects in over 20
economies in Africa, Asia and Europe, and has been a visiting professor or fellow at the
Universities of London, McGill, Melbourne, Singapore and Zurich, as well as Shanghai
University of Finance and Economics and the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research.
At HKU, his course responsibilities include Regulation of Financial Markets, Law of
International Finance and International Economic Law. In 2007, he received HKU’s Outstanding
Young Researcher Award, and in 2008, he was named Convenor of HKU’s Law, Policy and
Development Strategic Research Theme.
Douglas holds a BA from Drury College (where he studied literature, economics and political
science), a JD (cum laude) from Southern Methodist University, an LLM (with distinction) in
banking and finance law and a PhD from the University of London.
Specialized Areas: International and domestic financial law and regulation; International
economic law; Development law; Comparative law.
SS – Sanjay Sakhrani [pending]
ML – Mei-wah Leung [pending]
AL – Anselmo Reyes [attached]
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Education
Employment
Qualifications
Activities
Publications
Languages
Personal
Canadian
Born 22 Nov 1959 in Manila, Philippines
Hong Kong Permanent Resident
Education
June 1980
A.B. (Harvard) (Concentration: Economics)
June 1982
B.A. (Law) (Cambridge)
Admitted to M.A. degree January 1986.
June 1983
LL.M. (Cambridge)
Dec 1987
Ph.D. (Law) (Cambridge)
Dissertation: English and French Approaches to Personal Laws in South India: 1700 -1850
Employment
Law Lecturer, Department of Law,
University of Hong Kong
June 1986 – July 1988
Subjects taught: Trusts; Mercantile Law; Land Law; Personal Property.
Pupillage under Mr. Robert Ribeiro,
Temple Chambers
June 1988 – June 1989
1607 One Pacific Place, Hong Kong
Barrister
Temple Chambers
June 1989 – Aug 2003
Senior Counsel
May 2001 – Aug 2003
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Temple Chambers
Judge of First Instance, High Court
Sep 2003 – Sep 2012
2004-2008: Judge in charge of the Construction and Arbitration List.
2008-2012: Judge in charge of the Admiralty and Commercial Lists respectively.
Qualifications
Professor of Legal Practice, Faculty of Law,
University of Hong Kong
Oct 2012 –
Representative
Hague Conference, Asia Pacific Regional Office
Apr 2013 –
Panel of Arbitrators
of the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration
Apr 2013 –
Call to the English Bar
Nov 1985
(Inner Temple)
Call to the Hong Kong Bar
Sep 1986
(admitted to the Inner Bar in May 2001)
Call to the Singapore Bar
Activities
March 1995
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Since Nov 1997
CEDR Accredited Mediator
Since Oct 2006
Fellow, Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators
Since July 2012
Hong Kong Law Journal
Reviews Editor, May - Oct 1987
Case Notes Editor, Oct 1987 - Jan 1990
Hong Kong Law Reports
Chief Sub-Editor, July 1989 - Dec 1996
Hong Kong Law Digest (later Hong Kong Law Reports & Digest)
Consultant Editor, June 1998 - July 2003
Member, Hong Kong Bar Council
Jan 1993 - Jan 1996; Jan 2002 - July 2003
Hong Kong University, Dept. of Law
Taught course on Selected Issues in Commercial Legal Practice with Prof. Lusina Ho.
Second Semester 2005-6.
Halsbury Society Lecture, Merton College, Oxford
May 2006. Lecture on Sir Thomas Strange (Chief Justice of Madras 1801-16) and the
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Development of Anglo-Hindu Law.
Hong Kong Maritime Law Association
Lecture series on Civil Procedure under Civil Justice Reform. Delivered 6 one-hour lectures
between February and April 2009 on Civil Justice Reform.
Emirate of Abu Dhabi
Judicial Training Seminar on Management and Adjudication of Construction Litigation:
15-16 April 2009. Spoke on case management and arbitration in relation to construction
disputes.
Hong Kong University. Department of Law
Taught course on Topics in English and European Legal History with Mr. Alfred Cheng.
Second Semester 2009-10.
Hong Kong Maritime Law Association
Lecture series on The Sale of Goods. Delivered 5 two-hour lectures on the Sale of Goods
(including the Carriage of Goods by Sea).
Hong Kong Maritime Law Association
Lecture series on How To Be An Arbitrator: A Personal View. Delivered 5 two-hour lectures
between January and February 2012 on Arbitration.
Publications
Book review. Sir Orby Mootham, The East India Company's Sadar Courts: 1801 - 1834.
[1984] Cambridge Law Journal 311.
Book review. MacKenzie and Phillips, A Practical Approach to Land Law. (1987) 17 Hong
Kong Law Journal 269.
Case note. Conflict of Laws. "The ADHIGUNA MERANTI". (1988) 18 Hong Kong Law
Journal 141.
Chapter. "Shipping Law" in Halkyard and Smart (eds.), Trade and Investment Law in Hong
Kong (Butterworths Asia: 1993).
Book review. Byrnes, Chan and Edwards (eds.), Hong Kong Public Law Reports Vol.1:
1991. (1994) 24 Hong Kong Law Journal 152.
Address. "On Two Suggested Alternatives to the Rule in Hadley v. Baxendale". (2008) 38
Hong Kong Law Journal 347.
Book review. Cameron and Kelly, Principles and Practice of Civil Procedure in Hong Kong.
(2009) 28 Civil Justice Quarterly 159.
Address. "From Uncommon Asian Laws to a Ius Commune" (2010) 40 Hong Kong Law
Journal 805.
Languages
French
Putonghua
German
Japanese
Italian
Spanish
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