Current appointments:
C..V Starr Professor of Law at the Peking University School of
Transnational Law (Graduate Campus of Peking University in Shenzhen). The
School offers the first American-style J.D. law programme approved by the
State Council in China (see http://stl.szpku.edu.cn).
Currently
teaching the courses Transnational Law, Advanced Transnational Law,
International Commercial Arbitration and ADR, and International Economic
Law (international trade & investment law). Received "Award for Excellence in
Teaching" for "outstanding performance in the academic year
2009-2010" from Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School.
Co-Director of the Center for
Research on Transnational Law at the Peking University School of
Transnational Law
Member of the Academic
Advisory Council of the University of Heidelberg
Member, selection committee of
the University of Luxembourg for the appointment of a new Professor
or Associate Professor in Satellite Communication and Media Law.
Member
of the Academic Council of the Institute for German and European Law on
Political Parties, University of Düsseldorf,
Germany.
Member of the Panel of
Arbitrators of Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC).
Chairman of Arbitral Tribunal in a current international commercial case
involving a European company and a Chinese company. Member of the Beijing
Arbitration Commission and the Guangzhou Arbitration Commission. Member
of the ICC (Hong Kong) Standing Committee on Arbitration. Member of the
International Law Association (ILA) Committee on International Commercial
Arbitration.
Editorial /advisory board
membership:
·
Frontiers of
Law in China,
Higher Education Press, Beijing, advisory / editorial board
·
Chinese Journal of International Law, advisory board
·
Annual Survey of
International and Comparative Law, advisory board
·
Journal of East
Asia and International Law, international advisory board
·
Verfassung und Recht in Übersee - Law and Politics in Africa, Asia
and Latin America (VRÜ), advisory board
·
IFHV Working
Paper Series in Humanitarian Studies, Institute for International
Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, University of Bochum, Germany, external
review board
Previous positions:
Before joining the new PKU
School of Transnational Law in 2008, I served as Dean of the School of
Law of City University of Hong Kong from 2004 to 2007. I also had the
position of Chair Professor at City University from 2002 to 2007, after
an initial appointment as Visiting Professor from 2001 to 2002. Furthermore,
as Dean at City University I was also member of the University Council
and the University Management Board. In addition, I was the Director of
the WTO Law and Dispute Resolution Centre and the Programme Leader of the
Master of Arts in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution at the School of
Law.
Prior to moving to Hong Kong
in 2001, I was Professor of International Law, Head of Department, and
Director of the GLODIS-Institute at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam
from 1997 to 2001. From 1990 to 1997, I held the Chair of Public
International Law and International Relations at the University of
Amsterdam. I had moved to the Netherlands from Germany in 1986 to take up
the position of legal assistant to the President of the Iran-United
States Claims Tribunal. After I joined the University of Amsterdam as
professor in 1990, I continued to be involved in the arbitration and
final settlement of large oil expropriation cases at the Tribunal for
several years on a part-time basis.
From 1981 to 1986, I was a research
fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and
International Law in Heidelberg. From 1978 to 1981, I was teaching German
and Comparative Law in England at the University of Exeter Law as a
visiting lecturer employed by Exeter University and sponsored by the
German Academic Exchange Service.
After law studies in
Göttingen, München and Heidelberg, and passing the usual two state law
exams, both with distinction in 1973 and 1976 and with practical legal
training in the interim period, my first appointment was at the
University of Giessen as academic assistant in the field of
constitutional, European and international law from 1976 to 1978. In
Giessen I was awarded the degree of Dr. jur. with the highest honour of summa cum laude for the defence of
my thesis relating to devolution in the UK and British constitutional and
administrative law.
Other activities:
I have acted as Special Legal
Advisor to the Government of Ethiopia regarding compensation claims and
border issues in the war with Eritrea. Ethiopia then appointed me as
arbitrator of the Ethiopia-Eritrea Claims Commission. Moreover, I have
served for a number of years as Legal Counsel of Iraq before the UN
Compensation Commission for Claims against Iraq arising from the Iraq-Kuwait
war. I have appeared as independent expert before the International
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
Furthermore, I have advised
the European Commission, various governments and transnational companies
in international legal matters. I have served as member of the advisory
council to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, General Editor of the Netherlands Yearbook of International
Law and Chairman of the International Law Association (ILA) Study
Group on State Responsibility. Since many years I have also been Of
Counsel of the international law firm Lalive & Partners, Geneva.
In Hong Kong I have acted -
and continue to act - as sole arbitrator and tribunal chairman for the
Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. I have served as member of the
Telecommunications (Competition Provisions) Appeal Board from 2002 to
2008 and of the Board of Review (Inland Revenue Ordinance) from 2007 to
2010. In recent years, I have also coordinated mediation training
programmes for the Hong Kong Department of Justice. I was member of the
Standing Committee on Legal Education and Training of the Hong Kong SAR,
a statutory body, from 2006 to 2007 and member of the previous Steering
Committee from 2004 to 2006.
Honorary professorships received:
Peking University, People's
University of China (2004 Speaker at the “Grand Forum of the Most
Honorable Jurists”), China University of Politics and Law, Nanjing
University, Nankai University, Shenzhen University
Appointments as visiting professor:
Michigan Law School, Boalt
Hall Law School (University of California at Berkeley), Moscow State
(Lomonosow) University, Addis Ababa, Hebrew University Jerusalem,
University of Lausanne, Hong Kong University, University of Macau, Xiamen
University, and many other universities
Publications:
Numerous publications on general international law,
international economic (trade & investment) law, state
responsibility, international arbitration and dispute settlement,
environmental law, human rights, international criminal law, telecommunications
and space law, European law and
comparative law.
Author, 7th revised edition of the
widely used textbook Akehurst’s Modern Introduction to International
Law (translated into Japanese, Lithuanian, Ukrainian and Georgian). Advisory
editor and author of the leading manual Arbitration in China: A Practical Guide (2 vols.) 2004.
Founding editor of the book series Studies and Materials on the
Settlement of International Disputes, Kluwer Law International (now
Brill)(so far 9 vols). Recent publications include 'International Law
Provisions for the Protection of Foreign Investment', in: R. Dolzer, M.
Herdegen & B. Vogel (eds.), Foreign
Investment – Its Significance in Relation to the Fight against Poverty,
Economic Growth and Legal Culture, 2006; 'Domestic Arbitration and
Foreign-Related Arbitration in Mainland China', ICC China International Commercial Arbitration Yearbook 2005,
(September 2006), [in Chinese, translated by Prof Zhao Xiuwen]; 'The
Agreement between the Mainland and Hong Kong on the Reciprocal
Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters:
An Alternative to Arbitration?', in: Journal
of Juridical Science – Cadernos
de Ciência Jurídica (2007); 'Mixing Legal Cultures in International Arbitration
– The Iran-United States Claims Tribunal', in: V. K. Bhatia, C.N. Candlin & J. Engberg (eds.), Legal Discourse across Cultures and
System,
2008; 'Confidentiality and Third-Party Participation in Arbitration
Proceedings under Bilateral Investment Agreements', Contemporary Asia Arbitration Journal
1 (2008);
'Regional Protection of Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region', German Yearbook of International Law
52 (2009); and the articles 'American Civil War'; 'Data, Transboundary
Flow, International Protection'; and 'Hong Kong', in: R. Wolfrum (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public
International Law (Oxford University Press 2010), at http://www.mpepil.com.
Nationality:
German,
previously Canadian. Permanent resident of Hong Kong.
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There is also a link to a short biographical note in
Chinese above at the right corner.
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