Han-Wei Liu is Associate Professor of Law at Singapore Management University and Deputy Director of the Centre for Digital Law. His research examines the intersection of international economic law, technology governance, and geopolitics, with a focus on export controls, sanctions, semiconductor statecraft, supply-chain regulation, AI governance, and data flows. His recent work develops the concepts of ‘chokepoint economy’ and ‘hub economy’ governance to explain how states exercise, resist, or absorb regulatory power within global semiconductor supply chains, and the limits of extraterritorial technology controls.
His scholarship appears or is forthcoming in top-rated journals including the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, international law journals associated with Harvard, Columbia, Penn, Cornell, Georgetown, and Vanderbilt, Journal of International Economic Law, Journal of World Investment & Trade, and Journal of World Trade. He serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of World Trade and Book Review Editor of Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law & Affairs and sits on the Advisory Board of the European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance. He was Co-Chair of the ASIL International Law and Technology Interest Group and is currently Deputy Lead of the International Law Association (ILA)- AI and Technology Law Committee Sub-Committee on Accountability and Cross-Border Governance. Before entering academia, he practiced in financial regulation and commercial dispute resolution at international law firms, including on matters connected to high-profile financial disputes such as the Lehman Brothers collapse.
Qualifications
- Ph.D., Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID)
- LL.M., Columbia University, USA
- M.Jur., Oxford University, UK
- LL.M., National Chengchi University, Taiwan
- LL.B., National Chengchi University, Taiwan
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