Faculty Profile

• Ph.D., The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
• LL.M., Columbia University, USA
• M.Jur., Oxford University, UK
• LL.M., National Chengchi University, Taiwan
• LL.B., National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

• Associate Professor of Law, Singapore Management University, Jul 2023-
• Deputy Director, Centre for Digital Law, Singapore Management University, 2024-

Previous Appointment:

• Deputy Director, Centre for AI & data Governance, Singapore Management University
• Senior Lecturer, Monash University, Australia
• Lecturer, Monash University, Australia
• Assistant Professor, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
• Visiting Scholar, Columbia Law School, USA
• Visiting Researcher, Harvard Law School, USA
• Associate, Russin & Vecchi, Taipei, Taiwan
• Associate, Baker & McKenzie, Taipei, Taiwan

Other Positions

• Ex-officio Members of Secretariat, Asian Privacy Scholar Network (APSN)
• Senior Fellow, Melbourne Law School
• Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Monash University, Australia
• Visiting Associate Professor, National Taiwan University College of Law, Taiwan
• Co-Chair, American Society of International Law’s International Law and Technology
• Vice Chair, American Society of International Law’s International Law and Technology
• Deputy Lead, Sub-Committee on Accountability & Cross-Border Governance, International Law Association (ILA) AI & Technology Law Committee
• Associate Editor, Journal of World Trade
• Book Review Editor, Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (Brill)
• Advisory Board Member, European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance (Brill)
• Member, European Law & Tech Network
• Member, Society of International Economic Law  
• Member, Taiwan (Chinese) Society of International Law
• Member, TWIGF: Taiwan Internet Governance Forum
• Accredited Arbitrator, Chinese Arbitration Association, Taipei, Taiwan
• Accredited Arbitrator, Thailand Arbitration Center, Thailand

Honours and Awards

• Banking & Financial Services Law Association Research Essay Prize (Australia) - Highly Commended (selected by panel of senior judges, academics, and practitioners)
• Kathryn Davis Scholarship, the Graduate Institute, Geneva
• Taiwan Government Scholarship
• Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Columbia Law School
• Columbia Parker School Certificate in International and Comparative Law
• Jack J.T. Huang Fellowship, Columbia Law School
• Chevening Scholarship, British Council

Course Taught in SMU

• Data Governance: Challenges and Opportunities in a Global Context
• Ethics and Social Responsibility

Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation

• Comparative Law
• Financial Regulations
• International Economic Law
• Law and Technology
• Regulatory Theory

Current Projects

• Semiconductors and Global Supply Chain Control
• Governance of Social Media Platforms
• Normative Frameworks for Data Sharing: International and Comparative Law Perspectives
• Global Governance Through a TWAIL Lens

Selected Publications

• Google Scholar author page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=37GMiZcAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1
• SSRN author page: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1143932

Books

• “Economic Cooperation in the Shadow Contested Sovereignty: Divided Nations” (with Chien-Huei Wu & Ching-Fu Lin) (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2025)
• “Australian Banking and Finance: Law and Regulation” (with Weiping He) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024)
• "Governing Science and Technology in the Era of Mega-Regionals: Regulatory Divergence and Convergence" (co-editor with Shin-Yi Peng and Ching-Fu Lin) (Edward Elgar, 2018)

Journal Articles

• “Lawfare’s New Frontier: International Commercial Arbitration in the Shadow of Sanctions” 59 (3) Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (with Zhao Yue), forthcoming May 2026
• “Techno-Geopolitics and Semiconductor Chokepoints: Beyond US-Semiconductor (China)” 26 Journal of World Investment and Trade) (2025) (with Ching-Fu Lin)
• "From CPTPP To US-Taiwan Initiative On 21st Century: The Evolution of Good Regulatory Practices and Its Implications for Taiwan" 59 (1)  Journal of World Trade (2025)
• "The Transatlantic Divide: Intermediary Liability, Free Expression, and the Limits of Trade Harmonization" 2024 31 (4) International Journal of Law and Information Technology.
• "Standardizing Administrative Rulemaking through International Trade Agreements: Constitutional Tradition as Inherent Boundaries" (2022) 72 International & Comparative Law Quarterly 889-913 (with Ching-Fu Lin).
• "Forks over knives: Predictive inconsistency in criminal justice algorithmic risk assessment tools," 185 Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society (with Travis Greene, Galit Shmueli, Jan Fell, and Ching-Fu Lin)
• "Exporting the First Amendment through Trade: The Global “Constitutional Moment” for Online Platform Liability" (2022) 53 Georgetown Journal of International Law 1-56
• "Shifting Contour of Data Sharing in Financial Market and Regulatory Responses: the UK and Australian Models" (2021) 10 American University Business Law Review 287-328
• “Regulating Financial Advisers in the UK: Lessons for Australia” (2021) 44 UNSW Law Journal 424-452 (with Weiping He)
• "Trust, Commissions, and the Suitability Rule: Regulating Financial Advisers in the UK After the Global Financial Crisis" (2021) 15 (4) Capital Market Law Journal (with Weiping He)
• “Two Decades of Laws and Practice Around Screen Scraping in Common Law World and Its Open Banking Watershed Moment” (2020) 29 Washington International Law Journal 28-62
• “Artificial Intelligence and Global Trade Governance: A Pluralist Agenda” (2020) 61 Harvard International Law Journal 407-450 (with Ching-Fu Lin)
• “In Whose Best Interests? Regulating Financial Advisers, the Royal Commission and the Dilemma of Reform,” (2020) 42 (1) Sydney Law Review (with Toan Le, Weiping He, and Michael Duffy)
• “The Diffusion of the Sandbox Approach to Disruptive Innovation,” (2020) 53 (3) Cornell International Law Journal (with Robert Tsai and Ching-Fu Lin)
• “Beyond State v. Loomis: Artificial Intelligence, Accountability and Justice,” (2019) 27 (2) International Journal of Law and Information Technology (with Ching-Fu Lin & Yu-Jie Chen)
• “Rule of Trust: The Powers and Perils of China’s Social Credit System,” (2018) 32 (1) Columbia Journal of Asian Law (with Yu-Jie Chen and Ching-Fu Lin)
• “The Emergence of Global Regulatory Coherence: A Thorny Embrace for China?” (2018) 40 (1) University Pennsylvania Journal of International Law (with Ching-Fu Lin)
• “Disruptive Technologies and Sustainable Development: Implications for Southeast Asia,” (2018) International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) Issue Paper (with Ching-Fu Lin)
• “Regulatory Rationalization Clauses in FTAs: A Complete Survey of the U.S., EU, and China,” (2018) 19 (1) Melbourne Journal of International Law (with Ching-Fu Lin)
• “The Legality of the Data Localization Requirements: the TPP and Beyond”, (2017) 51 (2) Journal of World Trade (with Shin-Yi Peng)
• “Inside the Black Box: Political Economy of Encryption Clause in the TPP Agreement”, (2017) 51 (2) Journal of World Trade
• “Managing Trade Conflicts in the ICT Industry: A Case Study of EU-Greater China Area”, (2016) 19 (3) Journal of International Economic Law (with Shin-Yi Peng)
• “International Standards in Flux: A Balkanized ICT Standard setting Paradigm and Its Implications for the WTO”, (2014) 17 (3) Journal of International Economic Law