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Faculty Douglas Arner - B.A., Drury University; J.D., Southern Methodist University; LL.M. Banking & Finance, Ph.D., University of London
Mr. Arner is Director of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong. In addition, at HKU, he is Director of the LL.M. (Corporate and Financial Law) Program, a member of the Board of Management of the East Asian Economic Law and Policy Programme, and Co-Director of the Duke University-HKU Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law. Prior to his appointment at HKU, Mr. Arner was the Sir John Lubbock Support Fund Fellow at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies of Queen Mary, University of London, and a Visiting Fellow with the ICMA Centre of the University of Reading. Mr. Arner specializes in economic and financial law, regulation, and development. He is author, co-author, or editor of eight books, and author or co-author of more than 50 articles, chapters, and reports on related subjects. He has served as a consultant with, among others, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, APEC, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and Development Bank of Southern Africa, and has been involved with financial sector reform projects in over 20 economies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Mr. Elvin is a senior lecturing fellow and the Associate Dean and Director of Duke Law School's Career and Professional Development Center. He has also practiced law for two international firms in New York. Subsequently, he took on business roles at two technology firms. Immediately prior to coming to Duke in 2003, Mr. Elvin was a consultant and executive recruiter for large law firms and corporate legal departments in New York City. While working in New York, Mr. Elvin created and taught a course certified by the State for CLE credit for law firm associates entitled "The Business of Law and Developing Relationships." Mr. Elvin currently co-teaches "Business and Economics of Law Firm Practice" at Duke Law School and co-leads the "Fundamentals of Leadership and Professionalism Workshop Series." Andrew Halkyard - LL.B., Australian National University; LL.M., University of Virginia Mr. Halkyard is a Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong as well as a consultant at the Hong Kong office of the Baker & McKenzie law firm. He has also been a member of the Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department Appeals Branch, and before that, an Appeals Officer of the Australian Taxation Office. His primary areas of research interest are international taxation with a focus on Hong Kong and the PRC and commercial law, especially on provident fund regulation. He is a Senior Fellow of the Taxation Law and Policy Research Institute of Monash University, a member of the Editorial Board of the Asia Pacific Journal of Taxation, and a contributing editor of the Hong Kong Law Reports and Digest. He has several major publications and articles in international journals. Fu Hualing - LL.B., Southwestern University of Law and Politics, China; M.A., University of Toronto; J.D., Osgoode Hall Mr. Fu is a Professor of law and Head of the Department of Law at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include public law and human rights, with a special focus on media law and the criminal justice system. His recent works include National Security and Fundamental Freedoms: Hong Kong's Article 23 Under Scrutiny (2005) (co-edited with Carole Petersen and Simon Young) and The Struggle for Coherence: Constitutional Interpretation in Hong Kong (2008) (co-edited with Lison Harris and Simon Young). Donald L. Horowitz - B.A., LL.B., Syracuse University; LL.M., M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University Mr. Horowitz is the James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University. The author of numerous books and articles on the legal system and on ethnic group relations around the world, Mr. Horowitz's current research focuses on issues of constitutional design. For his book The Courts and Social Policy, he was awarded the Louis Brownlow Prize. His book A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society won the Ralph J. Bunche Prize for the best book in ethnic and cultural pluralism. His most recent book, The Deadly Ethnic Riot, was published in 2001. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is also President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. He has been the Institute's Duke Faculty Director for several years. Angela Itzikowitz - B.A., LL.B., University of Stellenbosch Ms. Itzikowitz is a Professor of Law at the University of Witwatersrand, where she teaches banking law and negotiable instruments. She is also the Nedbank Professor of Banking Law in the Mandela Institute, a Visiting Professor at Queen Mary College, University of London, and a Participating Fellow in Banking Law at the London Institute of International Banking Finance and Development Law. Her recent publications include a casebook on negotiable instruments, the chapter on "Financial Institutions" in the Annual Survey of South Africa, and numerous articles on money laundering and e-finance. She has participated in a number of law reform projects, including the South African Law Commission Project on Money Laundering. She is a director at Edward Nathan & Freidland (Pty), a firm of corporate legal advisers, where she heads the Financial Markets Division and specializes in title finance, securitization, banking, and financial market regulation. She was a Parsons Fellow at the University of Sydney and has received several awards for her teaching. David Lange - B.S., LL.B., University of Illinois Mr. Lange is the Melvin G. Shimm Professor of Law at Duke Law School. Prior to joining the Duke faculty in 1971, he worked in radio, television and motion picture production, and as a practicing lawyer with an emphasis in media law. At Duke Law School, he teaches courses in intellectual property, trademarks and unfair competition, and entertainment law (including motion picture production, finance and distribution). He speaks, writes and lectures frequently in those fields. Mr. Lange is co-author of a casebook on intellectual property now in its third edition. His most recent publication is No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment, co-authored with H. Jefferson Powell of the Duke Law faculty (2008). Mr. Lange was a founding member of the ABA Forum Committee on the Entertainment and Sports Industries and served on the Forum Committee's initial Governing Board. He served as a member of the Board of Advisors to the Reporter on the American Law Institute's Restatement (Third) of Unfair Competition. He also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of The Copyright Society of the United States. An internationally recognized authority in his areas of specialty, he has also taught and lectured in Europe, Australia, and Asia, and served as a pro bono consultant to the Vietnamese National Office of Industrial Property and the National Copyright Office of Vietnam. Jolene Lin - LL.B., London School of Economics; LL.M., New York University Ms. Lin is assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. She teaches International Environmental Law and a course on Law, Economics, Regulation, and Development. Her research interests include climate change law, administrative law, and environmental law. Recent publications include "Making Markets Work: A Review of CDM Performance and the Need for Reform" (co-authored with Charlotte Streck and published in the European Journal of International Law and "Judicalisation of Governance? The case of Singapore" in Tom Ginsburg & Albert Chen (eds.), Administrative Law and Judicalized Governance in Asia: Comparative Perspectives (forthcoming). Ms. Lin is the International Environmental Law editor of the Singapore Year Book of International Law as well as an associate member of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL). Carolyn McAllaster - B.A., J.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Ms. McAllaster is a clinical professor of law at Duke University and is the founder and director of the AIDS Legal Assistance Project. She was a litigator in private practice in Durham, NC, for thirteen years prior to joining the Duke Law School faculty in 1988. She has served as an administrative hearing officer for the N.C. Department of Human Resources and has been a state court arbitrator since 1987. Ms. McAllaster has taught pre-trial and trial advocacy courses in addition to clinical legal courses focusing on child advocacy and AIDS and the Law. She has taught trial practice for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, and as an adjunct member of the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and other law schools. She was a founder and first president of the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys and was appointed by the Governor to serve on the North Carolina AIDS Advisory Council in 1996. Ms. McAllaster is the author of two books, North Carolina Litigation Forms and Analysis and The Law and the Mentally Handicapped in North Carolina, (co-author), as well as several articles or chapters in books, including "Legal Issues for HIV-Infected Children" in Textbook of Pediatric HIV Care (2005) and co-author of "Issues in Family Law for People with HIV" in AIDS and the Law (4th edition, 2008). Mrinal Satish - B.A., LL.B., LL.M., National Law School of India University, Bangalore; LL.M., Yale Law School Mr. Satish is an assistant professor at the National Judicial Academy, India (NJA). His work focuses on facilitating judicial reform through judicial education and specializes in criminal law. At the Academy, he has been involved in the conceptualization, planning, organization and delivery of judicial seminars, conferences, and workshops for judges from all tiers of the Indian judiciary. His research pertains to judicial method and approaches to judging, and his primary research project is on sentencing. Prior to working at NJA, Mr. Satish was a lecturer at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. He has been involved in various research projects on law reform for the Central and State Governments, including issues of public health, and anti-caste related hate crimes legislations. Mr. Satish has presented papers at international conferences and published on issues of criminal law in Indian journals. Mr. Taylor is currently Adviser to the Governor of the Central Bank of Bahrain, having previously held a variety of positions at the Bank of England, International Monetary Fund, and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. His most recent book is Towards a New Framework for Financial Stability (editor with Prof. David Mayes and Robert Pringle, London, 2008). Tetsuya Watanabe - LL.B., Kyushu University; LL.M., Fukuoka University; Ph.D., Kyoto University Mr. Watanabe is currently a Professor at the Faculty of Law, Kyushu University, where he has been since 2003. He was a Visiting Scholar at U.C. Berkeley School of Law (Boalt) in 1998-99, at Harvard Law School in 1999-2000, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Munich in 2007. Mr. Watanabe teaches in the area of tax law. His principal research interests are in comparative corporate tax law, with a particular focus on U.S. and U.K. law. He has published two monographs and he is co-author of two text books. Doreen Weisenhaus - B.S., J.D., Northwestern University A specialist in media law and ethics, Ms. Weisenhaus is Associate Professor and Director of the Media Law Project at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong. Prior to HKU, she was city editor of The New York Times and the first legal editor of The New York Times Magazine. She also was a former prosecutor in New York and editor-in-chief of The National Law Journal, a leading publication for U.S. lawyers, where she led award-winning coverage of such issues as the death penalty and environmental racism. She is author of Hong Kong Media Law: A Guide for Journalists and Media Professionals (2007). Her research areas also include press freedom, media ownership trends, journalism history and newsroom practices. She is currently working on books on media law in China and elsewhere in Asia. Jiunn-rong Yeh - LL.B., LL.M., National Taiwan University; LL.M., J.S.D., Yale Law School Mr. Yeh is Professor of Law and Director of the Public Law Research Center at the College of Law, National Taiwan University, where he teaches environmental law, constitutional law, and administrative law. As a public law professor, he has been substantially involved in many constitutional, legislative and regulatory issues in Taiwan, including the drafting of several major legislative bills, such as the Freedom of Information Act, the Administrative Procedural Act, the Superfund Law, and the Greenhouse Gases Control Act. Mr. Yeh's extensive publications of books and articles in both English and Chinese cover topics such an environmental law and policy, global environmental sustainability, constitutional change, and globalization and regulatory process. He received the Award of Excellence in Research from the National Science Council. Mr. Yeh joined the Cabinet of Taiwan as a Minister without Portfolio in 2002, in charge of inter-ministerial coordination. He also served as Executive Director of two important councils chaired by the Premier: the National Council for Sustainable Development and the Council for Organic Reform. In 2005, Mr. Yeh was elected Secretary-General of the National Assembly that approved the constitutional revision proposals by the Legislative Yuan. In 2006, he was appointed Distinguished Professor of Law. Simon N.M. Young - B.ArtsSc., McMaster University; LL.B., University of Toronto; LL.M., Cambridge University Mr. Young is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, Director of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law, and a practicing member of the Hong Kong Bar. Prior to joining HKU, he was a Crown prosecutor for the Ministry of the Attorney General for Ontario in Toronto. Mr. Young specializes in criminal law and procedure, evidence, and Hong Kong constitutional law. He taught courses on terrorist financing, money laundering, and white collar crime for the Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law in 2003, 2005, and 2008. He serves as HKU Co-Director for the Asia-America Institute. |
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