The Future of Asian Trade Deals and IP

Kung-Chung Liu is the Lee Kong Chian Professor of Law (Practice) and the Director of the Applied Research Centre for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia (ARCIALA) at Singapore Management University. He is also a Professor at Renmin University of China.

Julien Chaisse is Professor in the School of Law at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU). He is an award-winning and internationally-respected expert on international economic law (trade, investment, and tax), cyberlaw, vitivinicultural law, and international dispute resolution. His work has received wide recognition and has been cited by international courts/tribunals as well as the US and European Courts. He writes a regular column ("The Global Lawyer") for the Financial Times' fDI Intelligence Magazine, where he discusses current events in foreign investment law and politics. Julien Chaisse is the recipient of the Smit-Lowenfeld Prize from the International Arbitration Club of New York (2020) and the holder of the Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship (2022). He also sits on the editorial boards of several high impact academic journals around the world, and is Editor-in-Chief of the Asia Pacific Law Review and co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Investment and Trade. Julien Chaisse has extensive experience working as a corporate board member and serving on the board of directors/advisory board for a number of international organisations. He is currently President and Chair of the Asia Pacific FDI Network, a leading organisation that focuses on researching foreign direct investment and facilitating cooperation among over 100 scholars and 50 institutions. He is an accomplished senior arbitrator who is listed on the panel of the major arbitration institutions. He was recently selected for the appointment of arbitrators in bilateral disputes under the EU's trade agreements. A number of his adjudications have been reported on by the local and international press. He is frequently called upon as an expert witness in international trade/investment litigation and arbitration to advise international organisations, governments, law firms, and private investors on private/public international law issues (eg, concessions contracts, special economic zones, investment structuring, state and international organisation immunities, and WTO accession), and has assisted over twenty jurisdictions in drafting trade/investment treaties and legislation. Prior to joining CityU's Law School, Julien Chaisse taught in the Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2009-2019), where he served both as Director of one the Faculty's research centres and Director of the Faculty's PhD & MPhil Programme. Before moving to Hong Kong, he worked as deputy head of the working group on the rules and regulations for multilateral trade and investment agreements at the World Trade Institute in Bern, Switzerland (2006-2009), as a lecturer at Elite School Sciences Po Aix, France (2004-2006), and as a diplomat for France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the French Embassy in New Delhi, India (2001-2004). He has held visiting fellowships and professorships at Columbia University, Melbourne University, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, National Institute of Malaysian and International Studies, and Tokyo University.