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“One Belt, One Road, Many Laws” Experts Talk Series
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The “One Belt, One Road, Many Laws” Experts Talk Series aims to keep the policy, economic and professional communities informed of the latest knowledge and perspectives on China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Each talk is delivered by an outstanding international expert on specific legal aspects of BRI in the context of transnational economic integration. Professionals, policy analysts, investors, policy-makers and individuals interested in the BRI and transnational economic activities are welcome.
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12Apr 2019 (Fri)13:00 - 14:00 (Registration starts at 12:15)
“One Belt, One Road, Many Laws” Experts Talk Series - Talk 2
- Venue
- Professor and Mrs Enoch Young Lecture Theatre (Room 204), HKU SPACE, 2/F Admiralty Centre, 18 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong (Exit A, Admiralty MTR Station)
- Speaker
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- Professor William Swadling
Professor William Swadling
William Swadling is Reader in the Law of Property and the Senior Law Fellow at Brasenose College. He chairs the faculty's teaching groups in Restitution and Personal Property. Before coming to Oxford, he held posts at a number of other universities, including University College London and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the editor of a number of books, including The Quistclose Trust: Critical Essays. He is particularly interested in the intersection between trusts/property and restitution, and a number of his articles on this topic have been cited in the House of Lords and UK Supreme Court. He is a contributor to Halsbury's Laws of England (4th ed, reissue), and wrote the section entitled 'Property' in Burrows (ed), English Private Law (3rd ed, 2013). He is a founding editor of the Restitution Law Review and has held visiting professorships at the University of Hamburg, Seoul National University, the National University of Singapore, University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), the University of Leuven, the National University of Taiwan, and the University of Hong Kong. He is an academic associate at One Essex Court (chambers of Lord Grabiner QC), a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne, an elected member of the American Law Institute, and an academic member of the Chancery Bar Association.
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03May 2019 (Fri)13:00 - 14:00 (Registration starts at 12:15)
“One Belt, One Road, Many Laws” Experts Talk Series - Talk 3
- Venue
- Professor and Mrs Enoch Young Lecture Theatre (Room 204), HKU SPACE, 2/F Admiralty Centre, 18 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong (Exit A, Admiralty MTR Station)
- Speaker
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- Professor Mark Feldman
Professor Mark Feldman
Mark Feldman is Professor of Law at Peking University School of Transnational Law. He also serves as Global Associate at the National University of Singapore Centre for International Law and as vice chair of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration Academic Council. He previously served as a member of the E15 Initiative Task Force on Investment Policy (World Economic Forum/ICTSD) and as Chief of NAFTA/CAFTA-DR Arbitration in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. As Chief, he represented the United States as a Respondent or non-disputing Party in more than a dozen investor-State disputes and provided legal counsel supporting the negotiation of U.S. bilateral investment treaties and investment chapters of free trade agreements (including TPP and U.S.-China BIT negotiations). His government experience also includes service as a law clerk to Judge Eric L. Clay on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Lesotho during South Africa’s transition to democracy. In the private sector, he practiced law for several years at Covington & Burling. He holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a JD from Columbia Law School, where he was a James Kent Scholar, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and recipient of the Parker School Certificate in International and Comparative Law.
