Associate Professor Kun Fan is an award-winning scholar in the area of international arbitration, mediation, comparative legal studies, and cultural study of law. Before joining UNSW in September 2019, she held academic positions at the Faculty of Law, McGill University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was also a Visiting Scholar of the Harvard Yenching Institute. 

Kun frequently speaks at conferences and gives lectures and training at renowned institutions and has led and engaged in many research projects.  Professor Fan also has extensive experience in ADR practice, acting as counsel, legal expert, secretary for the arbitration tribunal, arbitrator and domain names panellist in a number of international arbitrations and domain name disputes. 

Dr Lu Wang joined the UNSW Law as a Lecturer in August 2018 after completing her PhDs at the University of Liverpool in the UK and Xi’an Jiaotong University in China. The primary area of Lu’s research is international and comparative economic law, with a particular focus on international investment law, international arbitration, State-owned enterprises (SOEs) and China’s regulations of foreign trade and investment. In 2015, Lu was commissioned as the co-guest editor for the first Special Issue of the ICSID Review (by Oxford University Press) focusing on State-owned enterprises and international investment law.

Prior to joining UNSW Law, Lu worked as a legal intern at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in Washington DC (in 2017) and the Ministry of Commerce of China (MOFCOM) Department of Treaty and Law in Beijing (in 2012). She was also a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge in 2014.

Lu has published articles in English and Chinese journals in the field of international economic law, including the ICSID Review, Columbia FDI Perspectives, The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law (OUP), Studies in Law and Business (Fa Shang Yan Jiu, a CSSCI journal of China), Legal Daily (the premier Chinese legal newspaper), etc. One of Lu’s articles was awarded the First Prize of the “Outstanding Essay Award” by the Chinese Society of International Economic Law (CSIEL). Lu has also participated as a core investigator in a few major research projects funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Education of P. R. China.

Professor Leon Trakman is Former Dean of Law at UNSW, 2002-2007 and currently a UNSW Professor of Law. He holds both Masters’ and Doctorate degrees earned at the Harvard Law School. His academic appointments include, among others, Distinguished, Visiting and Tenured Professor at the University of California, Wisconsin, Tulane, McGill, Dalhousie and Cape Town.

Leon is author of over 150 publications, including 11 books, on comparative and international contract, trade and investment law.  He has also specialised in comparative Chinese law.

He has been awarded various national research professorships, such as a Killam Professorship and the Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights in Canada (one awarded nationally each year in a multidisciplinary contest).  He has received numerous research grants, such as from the Canada Council, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) and the Australian Research Council (ARC).

Beyond academia, Leon is an international commercial arbitrator and mediator and has served as presiding arbitrator or arbitrator in more than 120 international disputes and as mediated in over 30 disputes. He has also served extensively as an inter-governmental trade adjudicator, appointed by US, Canadian and Mexican Governments under North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). He has acted as constitutional advisor for the Canadian and South African Governments. He is also an international consultant on legal education.

Leon is a Barrister in New South Wales; a Barrister, Solicitor and Notary Public in Nova Scotia, Canada; and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa, Cape Provincial Division. He is also the Director of the Masters in Dispute Resolution at UNSW and on numerous professional and scholarly boards of directors and advisors.

Dr Emma Armson is an Associate Professor at UNSW Law. She researches and teaches in corporate law, with a particular interest in takeover law and policy, and dispute resolution by the Takeovers Panel. Emma is a member of the Centre for Law, Markets and Regulation at UNSW Law, and the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia.

Emma was an academic in the Law Faculties at the University of Sydney and the Australian National University before joining UNSW. Prior to this, Emma had a decade of professional experience in corporate law. This included working on corporate law reform as a senior Federal Government policy officer and practising law as a Senior Associate at Minter Ellison. She has also been an in-house counsel at Westpac Financial Services and a Corporations Law Editor at CCH Australia.

Associate Professor Alexandra George joined the UNSW Law Faculty in 2007, having had earlier academic appointments at Queen Mary, University of London, the University of Wales, Swansea and the University of Exeter in the UK. She has also worked at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy and at the University of Sydney, has practised as an intellectual property and media lawyer, was Associate to Justice MF Moore in the Federal Court of Australia and the Industrial Relations Court of Australia, and worked in journalism at Reuters.

Alexandra’s research focuses on international intellectual property and the philosophy of intellectual property law. Recent publications examine issues of jurisdiction and enforcement in international intellectual property law, including intellectual property implications of Brexit. Her research has also proposed an original approach to understanding intellectual property law through an analysis of its metaphysics and structure of intellectual property law, and ‘property’ concepts in the commodification of intangible objects. She is the author of Constructing Intellectual Property (Cambridge University Press, 2012), which examines the ways in which the legal system defines into existence and regulates intellectual property.

Alexandra also has an interest in Chinese intellectual property law. She convenes the Beijing elective course LAWS3345 / JURD7645 / LAWS8345 China International Business and Economic Law, which is jointly organised by UNSW and Tsinghua University.

In 2013, Alexandra received a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence at UNSW. In 2016, she was named 'Academic of the Year' at the national Lawyers Weekly Women in Law Awards and awarded a Pro Bono Award for her work for The Arts Law Centre of Australia.

‘Reform of Chinese state-owned enterprises: What China can learn from the practice of competitive neutrality in Australia’ (Deborah Healey/Leon Trakman)

'Continuous Disclosure of Chinese Cross-border Listed Companies in Australia: Delisting Issues and Enhancement Measures' (Marina Nehme/ Xiao-chuan Weng)

‘Success and failure in the race to coordinate domestic policies, regulatory frameworks and institutions to the realities of the 21st century trading system: Australia and its regional trade partners’ (Heng Wang/ Weihuan Zhou)

'Global Commons in International Investment Law: The Rights and Responsibilities of States and Investors in Renewable Energy Investments’ (Xiao-Chuan Weng/ Heng Wang/ Lucas Lixinski)

'Protection of Private Property Rights in Compulsory Land Acquisition in Modern China'(Brendan Edgeworth/Weihuan Zhou)

'Research on Anti-monopoly Regulation of Abuse of Market Dominance in Trade Secret' (Deborah Healey/ Xiao-chuan Weng)

'The Status Quo and Prospect of Dual-Class Share Structure in Mainland China: Lessons and Experiences from Practices Under the Common Law System' (Xiao-chuan Weng)

‘The Evolution of Settlement of Investor-State Disputes in China: A Coherent and Conscious Approach?’ (Heng Wang/ Jonathan Bonnitcha)

‘Due Process Defence to Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards under the New York Convention: A Global Perspective in Theory and Practice' (Lucas Lixinski/Leon Trakman/Jeanne Huang)

'Reforming Corporate Governance Laws of Chinese Nonprofit Residential Care Institutions：Theoretical and practical Considerations' (Xiao-chuan Weng/ Marina Nehme)