XIAMEN ACADEMY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Professor in International Law at School
Dr. Xiuil Han is a Professor in International Law at School of law of Xiamen University and the deputy director of the Africa Research Center (ARC) of Xiamen University in Fujian Province of China. She holds a doctorate in international law from Xiamen University and a visiting scholar in several universities abroad, and a Hauser Global Research Fellow at School of law of New York University. She is the author of Legal Protection and Sustainability of Chinese Investments in Africa---Under the Concept of International Investment Rule (Springer, 2022) and Environmental Protection Involving Chinese Overseas Investment: From the Perspective of International Investment Law (Law Press, 2013). In the past decade, she has devoted herself to exploring investment-related issues in international investment law. She is also interested in African research and has done field works in some African countries.
Dr. Zhao Hong, Professor of Law, faculty at the Law School of Peking University, a former Member (2016-2020) and Chairperson of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO). She held various senior positions at the PRC Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), including the Commissioner of the Department of WTO Affairs, Assistant Representative of the Office of Trade Negotiations, and Deputy Director-General of the Bureau of Anti-Monopoly. She chaired the WTO's TRIMS Committee when working at the China's Permanent Mission to the WTO as Minister Counsellor. After leaving MOFCOM, she served as a Deputy President of the China Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation. She was educated in Peking University Law School with LLB, LLM and PhD degrees. Currently, she is in the indicative list of panelists of WTO dispute settlement, an arbitrator at CIETAC, Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration and Shanghai Arbitration Commission. She is also an arbitrator on the panel of International Investment Dispute at Beijing Arbitration Commission. Her expertise is in areas of WTO law, international investment law, international trade law, competition and anti-monopoly, IPR and technology transfer and has profound interest in philosophy and history of law etc.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Editor - in - Chief
- Member of the Official Indian Delegations
- Professor of International Law
Professor Dr. Bharat H. Desai holds the Jawaharlal Nehru Chair and is Professor of International Law at the Centre for International Legal Studies, School of International Studies of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He is Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Policy and Law (Amsterdam: IOS Press).
A leading International Law scholar, Prof. Desai has the distinction of authoring/editing ideational books by global publishing houses such as: (i) International Law: Taking it Seriously (Singapore: Springer Nature, 2023; forthcoming) (ii) Envisioning Our Environmental Future: Stockholm+50 and Beyond (IOS Press: Amsterdam, Berlin, Washington DC, 2022; (iii) Sexual & Gender Based Violence in International Law: Making International Institutions Work (Singapore: Springer Nature, 2022); (iv) Soil Law and Governance in India (Berlin: Springer, 2022; Ed); (v) Our Earth Matters (Amsterdam, Berlin, Washington DC: IOS Press, 2021; (vi) International Environmental Governance: Towards UNEPO? (Boston, USA: Brill Nijhoff, 2014); (vii) Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Legal Status of the Secretariats (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010; Paperback 2013); (viii) Creeping Institutionalization: Multilateral Environmental Agreements & Human Security (Bonn: UNU-EHS, 2006); (ix) Institutionalizing International Environmental Law (New York: Transnational, 2004).
Prof. Desai has provided some big ideas for addressing the global problematique. It includes: (i) "The 2022 Stockholm+50 Moment in the Era of a Planetary Crisis: Lessons for the Scholars and the Decision-makers", Environmental Policy and Law 53 (1) 2023, 3-18; (ii) "Regulating Global Climate Change: From Common Concern to Planetary Concern", Environmental Policy and Law 52 (5-6) 2022, 331-347; Regulating Global Climate Change: From Common Concern to Planetary Concern - IOS Press; (iii)"The Repurposed UN Trusteeship Council for the Future", Environmental Policy and Law 52 (3-4) 2022, 223-235; epl219039 (iospress.com); (iv) "Sixty Years of the Indus Waters Treaty: A Look Ahead in Hydro-diplomacy and Treaty Law", Environmental Policy and Law 51 (3) 2021, 175-184; (v) "ICTs as the New Environmental Sentinels", Environmental Policy and Law 51 (1-2) 2021, 121-134; ICTs as the New Environmental Sentinels - IOS Press; (vi) "The Quest for a UN ‘Specialized Agency' for the Environment (UNEPO), The Round Table (London: RSIA), 101 (2) 2012; Indian JIL (New Delhi: ISIL), 40 (3) 2000, 455-504.
Prof. Desai has served as a member of the Official Indian Delegations to various intergovernmental negotiations as well as consulted by the ADB, ICIMOD, IHDP, IUCN, SACEP, UNEP, UNU, World Bank and other global agencies.
Prof. Dr. Hua Zhang is full Professor of International Law and PhD supervisor at School of Law, Nanjing University, People's Republic of China. He holds LLM (2006) and PhD (2009) degrees in international law from the Institute for International Law, Wuhan University, China. His research interests lie in the principles of public international law, cyber international law, international law of the sea, and EU external relations law. He has published widely in the fields of international law and EU law, including two monographs, and more than sixty journal articles and book chapters in both Chinese and English. Prof. Zhang is also working as adjunct Professor of International Law at Johns Hopkins University & Nanjing University Centre for Chinese and American Studies (HNC, located in Nanjing), and Göttingen University & Nanjing University Institute for German-Chinese Law. He is member of Chinese Society of International Law, and Chinese Society of European Legal Studies. Prof. Zhang once worked as visiting scholar at Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge (2013-2014); Institute for International and European Law, University of Göttingen (2011); and School of Law, University of Manchester (2007).
Job Titles:
- Professor of Public International Law at the University of Reading School of Law
Marko Milanovic is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Reading School of Law, United Kingdom. He is co-general editor of the ongoing Tallinn Manual 3.0 project on the application of international law in cyberspace and Senior Fellow, NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. He is also co-editor of EJIL: Talk!, the blog of the European Journal of International Law, as well as a member of the EJIL's Editorial Board. Professor Milanovic was formerly Professor of Public International Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights Law Centre at the University of Nottingham School of Law, and served as Vice-President and member of the Executive Board of the European Society of International Law. Professor Milanovic held visiting professorships at world-renowned academic institutions both in Europe and North America. He is a prolific author in human rights law, public international law, international criminal law and the law of armed conflict with leading publishers and peer-reviewed journals. His publications include one monograph, three edited collections, more than 40 research articles and book chapters, and over 400 blog posts. His work has been cited, inter alia, by judges of domestic courts and international tribunals, as well as by the International Law Commission.
Job Titles:
- Professor at the School of Law
Professor Owen McIntyre is a Professor at the School of Law, University College Cork (National University of Ireland), where he is Director of the LLM (Environmental & Natural Resources Law) Programme and Co-Director of the UCC Centre for Law and the Environment. His principal area of research is Environmental and Natural Resources Law, with a particular focus on International and Comparative Water Law. He is General Editor of the Journal of Water Law and has served as the inaugural Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law Specialist Group on Water and Wetlands, as a panel member of the Project Complaints Mechanism of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), as a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency, and as a member of the Irish Aquaculture Licensing Appeals Board. He holds several visiting academic positions and consults widely in the fields of International Water and Environmental Law for such organisations as the World Bank, UN specialist agencies and the EU, and also advises river basin commissions (RBOs) around the world on transboundary water cooperation.
Prof. Yun ZHAO is Henry Cheng Professor in International Law and Head of Department of Law at the University of Hong Kong (HKU); PhD (Erasmus University Rotterdam); LLM (Leiden University); LLM & LLB (China University of Political Science and Law). Prof. Zhao is currently Representative of Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH); Standing Council Member of Chinese Society of International Law; Council Member of Chinese Law Society; Council Member of Zhuhai International Court of Arbitration; Chair Professor at Xiamen University (2020-2023). He is listed as arbitrator in several international arbitration commissions. He sits in the editorial teams of several academic journals, including Hong Kong Law Journal (as China Law editor), Journal of East Asia and International Law (as Executive Editor). He is winner of Prof.Dr. I.H.Ph. Diederiks-Verschoor Award 2006 by International Institute of Space Law in France, the first winner of Isa Diederiks-Verschoor Prize in the Netherlands, and also first winner of SATA Prize by the Foundation of Development of International Law in Asia (DILA). He has published widely on various topics including particularly Dispute Resolution and Space Law. His sole-authored monographs include Dispute Resolution in Electronic Commerce (Martinus Nijhoff, 2005), Liberalization of Electronic Commerce and Law (Peking University Press, 2005), Space Commercialization and the Development of Space Law (Intellectual Property Press, 2008), Mediation Practice and Skills (Tsinghua University Press, 2011), National Space Legislation in China: An Overview of the Current Situation and Outlook for the Future (Brill, 2015), Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution in Modern China (Springer, 2022).