Contributors

Elizabeth Aguiling-Pangalangan is a full professor at the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Law and heads the Reproductive Health Rights and Ethics Center for Studies and Training (ReproCen).

Kent Anderson is a comparative lawyer specialising in Japan. He is Director of the School of Culture, History and Language in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and holds a joint appointment with the ANU College of Law of the Australian National University. He has an eclectic background, undertaking his tertiary studies in Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom, and then working as a marketing manager with a US regional airline in Alaska. He began practice as a commercial lawyer in Hawaii, and subsequently joined academia as Associate Professor at Hokkaido University School of Law. He has been a visiting professor at Chuo, Kyushu, Nagoya and Waseda Universities in Japan.

Gary F Bell is Director of the Asian Law Institute (ASLI) and an Associate Pro­fessor of the National University of Singapore (NUS). He received a degree in theology from Universite Laval, degrees in civil law and common law from McGill University and in American law (LLM) from Columbia University. He teaches �Comparative Legal Traditions’ and �Introduction to Indonesian Law’ and writes on Indonesian law and comparative law.

E Ann Black is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland, where she is also the Director of the Juris Doctor Program. She teaches in the areas of comparative law, notably Islamic law and Asian legal systems, at both an undergraduate and Masters level, as well as in the substantive fields of criminal law and legal method. She has a particular interest in the law and legal system of Brunei Darussalam, and after completing her Doctor of Juridical Science on dispute resolution in Brunei Darussalam has continued to publish on aspects oflawin the Sultanate. She is the DeputyDirector of the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law and was for several years a co-editor of LAWASIA Journal.

Dang Xuan Hop is a lawyer practising in Vietnam with Allens Arthur Robinson, specialising in infrastructure development and dispute resolution. He holds law degrees from Vietnam and Australia and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. He regularly teaches investment law, choice of law and other commercial law subjects in Singapore and Vietnam. He is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Law Fac­ulty, National University of Singapore (NUS), and at the Law Faculty, University of New South Wales. He is an arbitrator with the Singapore International Arbi­tration Centre and has also acted as arbitrator before the Vietnam International Arbitration Centre.

Youngjoon Kwon was a judge in Korea and is an Associate Professor of the Seoul National University (SNU). He holds degrees in law (LLB, LLM and PhD) from Seoul National University and a degree in law (LLM) from Harvard University. He teaches contracts, torts and property law. He writes on private law issues from comparative and theoretical perspectives.

Chang-fa Lo is a Chair Professor and a Lifetime Distinguished Professor at National Taiwan University (NTU) and the Director of the Asian Center for WTO & International Health Law and Policy, College of Law, NTU.

Trevor Ryan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Canberra Faculty of Law. He teaches legal research, legal theory, and comparative law. His PhD thesis evaluated changes in the concept of law catalysed by radical demographic transition in Japan. He is Competitions Convenor for the Australian Network for Japanese Law.

Benny Y T Tai was born and educated in Hong Kong. He graduated from The University of Hong Kong, receiving his Bachelor of Laws in 1986 and Postgrad­uate Certificate in Laws in 1987. In 1989 he went to London to study at the London School of Economics and Political Science, earning his Master of Laws (major in public law) in 1990. In 1991 he joined the Department of Law of The University of Hong Kong and is now an Associate Professor. He specialises in public law. He was the Associate Dean of the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong, from 2000 to 2008. He teaches the courses �Constitutional Law of Hong Kong', �Administrative Law of Hong Kong', �Law and Religion', �Law and Governance' and �Law and Politics of Constitutions'. He also provides training on judicial review and policy implementation to civil servants in the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Kevin Y L Tan was educated at the National University of Singapore and then at Yale Law School.

Tsun Hang Tey is a tenured law professor at the Faculty of Law, National Uni­versity of Singapore. He was previously a Law Clerk to the former Chief Justice of the Republic of Singapore (Chief Justice Pung How Yong), the resident District Judge of Court 16 of the Subordinate Courts of Singapore, and a State Counsel and legislative draftsman at the Legislation Division of the Attorney-General's Chambers of Singapore. He was a member of the editorial committees of the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies and the Singapore Journal OfInternational and Comparative Law, and the Executive Committee of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies. Until 2008, he was the Deputy ChiefEditor of Singapore YearBook of International Law. He is now the Editor of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law. He has published widely in international peer-reviewed journals and has presented papers at seminars and conferences in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan.

Jiangyu Wang (SJD and LLM, University of Pennsylvania; MJuris, Oxford; LLM, Peking University; LLB, China University of Political Science and Law) is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore (NUS). From 2006 to 2009, he was on secondment as an Associate Profes­sor of Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He practised law in the Legal Department of Bank of China and in Chinese and American law firms. He served as a member of the Chinese delegation at the annual conference of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Conference in 1999. He is also a member of the Executive Board of the WTO Institute of the China Law Society, and a Senior Fellow of the Law and Development Insti­tute. He has also been invited expert/speaker for the International Trade Centre (UNCTAD/WTO) and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). He recently received the 2007 Young Researcher Award of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in recognition of his accomplish­ment in research in 2006-07.