Contributors

Muhammad Nizam Awang is a faculty member of the Faculty of Syariah and Law and Institute of Halal Research and Management at the Univer- siti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM). Muhammad’s research, teaching, and expert advice focus broadly within the law and policy of environmental and health protection, particularly the ways in which law, actors, and institutions respond to the governance of new and enabling technologies and the market (i.e.

Kai-Chih Chang is an assistant professor at Soochow University (Taiwan) School of Law. He previously served as an Advisory Expert at the Institute of Diplomacy and International Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Tai­wan), and taught at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and Tung- hai University. His research focuses on public international law, international trade law, and international dispute settlement. Professor Chang received his S.J.D. from Indiana University Maurer School of Law. He also held an LL.M. in international legal studies from New York University, a Master of Laws from National Chiao Tung University, and his LL.B. from National Chengchi University. He is currently the Associate Editor of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs.

Wen-Shen Chu is a senior researcher and former Director of the Biore­source Collection and Research Center (BCRC) under the Food Industry Research and Development Institute (FIRDI), Taiwan.

Contributors ix Invention Award from the Taiwan Association for Food Science and Tech­nology, the Mr. Cheng-Yuan Hsieh Outstanding Contribution Award from the FIRDI, and the Research Award from the Agricultural Chemical Soci­ety of Taiwan. His five-year project on “Culture Collection, Identification, Strain Improvement and Application” has been nominated for the Excel­lence Award by Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs.

Alie De Boer How can you scientifically prove that foods are legally safe and healthy? As Assistant Professor in the field of nutrition and food law at Campus Venlo of Maastricht University (the Netherlands), Dr. Alie de Boer studies the interplay between nutritional sciences and (European) food law to analyze the position of scientific evidence in food authoriza­tion procedures as well as the effects of these policies. This results in both new scientific findings and practical knowledge for food business opera­tors, consumer organizations, and policymakers. After obtaining her Ph.D. at Maastricht University in 2015 on the interactions between nutrition and medicine in effect and law, Dr. de Boer founded the Food Claims Cen­tre Venlo, the first research centre to conduct multi- and interdisciplinary research into nutrition and (EU) food law. She is a popular speaker on the topics of nutrition and health claims and contributes to different socially relevant activities to increase awareness on health and safety of nutrition and how this is regulated.

Neal Fortin is a professor in the Food Science and Human Nutrition Depart­ment and Director of the Institute for Food Laws & Regulations at Michigan State University (www.IFLR.msu.edu). He teaches classes in United States food regulation, international food law, Codex Alimentarius, and food and drug law.

Ching-Fu Lin is Professor of Law at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), where he teaches global health law, food law and policy, artificial intelli­gence law and policy, introduction to law and technology, and international law and global governance. Professor Lin received his LL.M. and S.J.D. from Harvard Law School, with the honor of the John Gallup Laylin Memorial Prize (best paper in public international law) and Yong K. Kim Memo­rial Prize (best paper in East Asian legal studies). He also holds a double degree in law (LL.B.) and chemical engineering (B.S.) from National Tai­wan University. Professor Lin has served as Visiting Researcher at the Berk­man Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in the United States as well as Visiting Fellow at Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He has also been Peter Barton Hutt Student Fellow at Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, as well as Visiting Scholar Coordinator at the East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School. More recently, Professor Lin received the Junior Research Award from NTHU in 2017 and the Young Scholar Fellowship (2018—2023) from Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology in 2018. Active in legal academia, Professor Lin has been invited to lecture in many academic/practical settings, such as the World Trade Organization, Summer Academy in Global Food Law and Pol­icy in Spain, Brescia University School of Law in Italy, and World Food Law Program and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in the United States. His legal scholarship has appeared in numerous journals and edited collections, including Harvard International Law Journal, Virginia Jour­nal of International Law, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Cornell International Law Journal, Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, Food and Drug Law Journal, Journal of World Trade, and International Journal of Law and Information Technology.

Eunjeong Ma is a collegiate associate professor in the Department of Crea­tive IT Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). Having been trained in science and technology studies, she works on socio-cultural dimensions of pharmaceuticals and medical technologies. Currently, her research is centered on questions about sen­ior citizens and technological interventions, and she also does research on collaborative research methods and platforms between engineering and the humanities/social sciences.

Kuei-Jung Ni is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transnational Trade Laws at School of Law, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He specializes in international eco­nomic law, environment law, and bio-technology law, especially covering the cross-cutting issues of trade, environment, and public health. His present study focuses on exploring transnational regulations on food safety and risk analysis, including normative works of competent international regimes, such as WTO, RTA, Codex, the Biodiversity Convention, and so on, and national implementations as well. He has written dozens of articles appear­ing in trade, environment, and health law journals. Recent publications include Food Safety and International Trade (Angle, 2022); “Science and Risk Analysis in CPTPP/SPS-Plus: Role Model or Unbearable Burden” (Journal of Food Law and Policy, Vol. 15(2), pp. 22—47, 2019); Science and Technology in International Economic Law, co-edited with Bryan Mercurio (Routledge, 2014). He was visiting Melbourne Law School, Harvard Law School, UC at Berkeley, School of Law. Professor Ni received his Ph.D. in law from the University of Edinburgh, an LL.M from the University of California at Berkeley, and an LL.B from the National Taiwan University.

Sharifudin Md Shaarani is a professor and research director of the Faculty of Science and Technology at the Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM). Professor Dr.

Juanjuan Sun is Associate Law Professor at Heibei Agricultural University and Research Fellow of Center for Coordination and Innovation of Food Safety Governance at Renmin University of China Law School. Research interests include regulatory theory, food law and agricultural law. Personal achievements include editing books such as Comparative Study among the USA, EU and China on Food Safety Regulation and Building Food Safety Gov­ernance in China and translating books such as European Food Law Handbook, Private Food Law and Food Safety=Behavior.

Steph Tai’s scholarly research examines the interactions between environ­mental and health sciences and administrative law. These include the con­sideration of scientific expertise and environmental justice concerns by administrative and judicial systems, and as well as the role of scientific dia­logue in food systems regulation and the ways in which private governance incorporates scientific research. Professor Tai was an adjunct law professor at Georgetown from 2002—2005 and a visiting professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law during the 2005—2006 academic year. Pro­fessor Tai’s teaching interests include administrative law, environmental law, food systems law, environmental justice, risk regulation, contracts (especially private governance and supply chains!), and comparative Asian environmen­tal law. Raised in the South by two chemists, Professor Tai decided to com­bine their chemistry background with a legal education to improve the use of science in environmental protection.

Yuan Hung Tseng earned his Ph.D. in medicine from Chung Shan Medical University, Taiwan. He also holds two master’s degrees. He earned an LL.M. from the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, as well as a master’s of sociology of law from Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

Yeh-Han Wang got both his medical and master’s degrees in science, technol­ogy, and society (STS) from National Yang-Ming University (NYMU) in 2009 and 2018, respectively. Now he is a doctoral student in the Division of Health Policy and Law, Institute of Public Health, NYMU. Furthermore, he is also an attending physician working in the Department of Anatomic Pathology, Taipei Institute of Pathology. He contributes his research work in two major fields. One is surgical pathology and cytology; the other is STS and public health. His primary academic interests focus on the topics of (1) international guidelines and local practice and (2) new drug innova­tion and companion tests. His master thesis investigates the development and use of Iressa, the first targeted drug treating lung cancer. The argument captures a crucial moment in biomedicine where the new paradigm for medical knowledge and clinical practice revolves around pharmaceuticals. He plans to investigate the challenges that cervical smear screening policy faces nowadays due to the progression of technology and implementation of HPV vaccination and surveillance as a Ph.D. research project.

Tomiko Yamaguchi specializes in the sociology of knowledge and science and technology studies. She has worked on a range of research projects exam­ining the ways in which social reality is constructed in situations involving conflict and controversy in the agrifood sector; her primary focus has been the ways in which knowledge about agrifood is interpreted, reaffirmed, and altered in day-to-day interactions between stakeholders attempting to exert influence in a situation and how and why dominant interpretations give power to some stakeholders and not others. She has examined social conflicts concerning GMOs in the context ofJapan and India, BSE, nanotechnology in food, and functional foods. She is currently working on social dimensions of plant gene editing technologies. Publications include “Performativity of Expectations: The Emergence of Plant Gene Editing Technologies in Japan” in Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene in 2020, an edited book entitled Social Shaping of the Science of Forecasting (in Japanese) in 2019, and “Social Imagi­nary and Policy Practice: The Food Safety Arena in Japan” that appeared in Food Policy in 2014.

Pei-kan Yang is Professor of Law at Department of International Business, National Chengchi University (NCCU), in Taiwan since 2013. Previously he was Assistant Professor at Feng-Chia University (2006~2011) and Taipei Medical University (2011~2013) and also taught at Soochow University. He offers courses on international trade law, commercial law, legal methods, and the WTO dispute settlement system. He specializes in international economic law and international health law and has published many arti­cles on trade- and health-related issues in accredited academic journals. He is also a researcher of the Research Center for International Organization and Trade Law under the Commerce College of NCCU and a member of the Asian Center for WTO & International Health Law and Policy under National Taiwan University. Professor Yang received his LL.B. and LL.M. from National Taiwan University, College of Law, in 1996 and 2002 and his J.D. and from Duke University, School of Law, in 2006. He serves as a member of the editorial committee of the Contemporary Asia Arbitration Journal (CAA) and the Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy (AJWH). He also serves as a board member to the Society of Law and Medicine in Taiwan and a commissioner of the Advisory Council for GMO Food under Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW). Professor Yang has been recommended on the roster of legal experts on Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) by MOHW to the World Health Organization (WHO) and commissioned to assist MOHW in participating in many sessions of Conference of Parties to the WHO/FCTC or engaging in various international exchange activities.

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