Associate Professor Gary Bell

After an undergraduate degree in theology (BTh) at the Universite Laval (Quebec City), Gary F. Bell obtained degrees in both common law (LLB) and the civil law (CLB) at McGill University in Montreal and an LLM at Columbia University in New York City.

He was Editor in Chief of the McGill Law Journal, clerked for Justice Stevenson of the Supreme Court of Canada and taught at McGill University. teaching comparative law
He does most of his research on Indonesian Law and on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. He is a Director of the Asian Law Institute

Professor Hualing Fu

Professor Fu’s research interest includes constitutional law and human rights, with a special focus on criminal justice system and media law in China. His recent work include National Security and Fundamental Freedoms: Hong Kong’s Article 23 Under Scrutiny (Hong Kong University Press, 2005) (co-edited with Carole Petersen and Simon Young) and The Struggle for Coherence: Constitutional Interpretation in Hong Kong (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) (co-edited with Lison Harris and Simon Young). He teaches Corruption, Human Rights in China, and Legal Relations between Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Professor Andrew Harding

Andrew Harding joined the University of Victoria's Faculty of Law and CAPI, where he holds the Chair in Asia-Pacific Legal Relations, in 2004. He received his MA (Oxon) in 1974, his LLM (Singapore) in 1984, and his PhD (Monash) in 1987. In July 2009 Andrew Harding also took on the position of CAPI Director. He is currently teaching two courses in the Faculty of Law: Asia-Pacific Comparative Law, and Law, Governance and Development.

Andrew Harding is a former Head of Department and Professor of Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, and Chair of SOAS' Centre of South East Asian Studies. He has previously taught at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore and has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. He co-founded and has served as General Editor of Kluwer/Martinus Nijhoff's London-Leiden Series on Law, Governance and Development. His interests are in South East Asian legal studies, comparative public law, law and development, comparative law theory and environmental law. His recent publications include Law, Government and the Constitution in Malaysia (1996), and Comparative Law in the 21st Century (2002).

 Professor Pitman Potter

Pitman Potter is a Professor of Law at UBC Law Faculty and Hong Kong Bank Chair in Asian Research at UBC's Institute of Asian Research. Dr. Potter's teaching and research are focused on PRC and Taiwan law and policy in the areas of foreign trade and investment, dispute resolution, intellectual property, contracts, business regulation, and human rights. Dr. Potter has served on numerous Editorial Boards for journals such as The China Quarterly, The Hong Kong Law Journal, Taiwan National University Law Review, China: An International Journal, and Pacific Affairs.

He has published several books, including most recently A Guide to Business Law in Asia (w/ Ljiljana Biukovic, Lexis/Nexis 2008), as well as numerous book chapters and articles for such journals as Law & Social Inquiry, The China Quarterly, and The International Journal. In addition to his academic activities, Dr. Potter is admitted to the practice of law in British Columbia, Washington and California, and serves as a consultant to the Canadian national law firm of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP.

As a Chartered Arbitrator, Dr. Potter is engaged in international trade arbitration work involving China. He has served on the Board of Directors of several public institutions, including Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, where he is now a Senior Fellow.

Professor Tay-sheng Wang

A Lifetime Distinguished Professor at NTU, Professor Tay-sheng Wang is known for his studies on Taiwanese-centered legal history, including Chinese legal traditions and the colonial law under the Japanese rule. Having practiced law for three years in Taiwan, Professor Wang received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1992.

He has published numerous books and articles on Taiwanese legal history both in English and Chinese, some of which have been translated into English or Japanese. His English language publications include: “Chapter 4: Taiwan,” in Asian Legal Systems: Law, Society and Pluralism in East Asia (1997) , Sean Cooney (trans), “The Impact of Modern Western Law on the Chinese in Taiwan,” The Australian Journal of Asian Law, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Dec. 1999), Legal Reform in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule (1895-1945): The Reception of Western Law (2000), “The Legal Development of Taiwan in the 20th Century: Toward A Liberal and Democratic Country,” Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, Vol. 11, No. 3 (June, 2002).

He has also been a winner of multiple awards: an Excellent Research Award from the National Science Council in 2001, an Excellent Archival Research Award from Academia Historica in 2002, and an Academic Award from the Ministry of Education in 2004. Professor Wang was a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School on a Fulbright scholarship in 2001, at the University of Washington School of Law in 2005, at Waseda University Law School in 2006 and at National University of Singapore Faculty of Law in 2007. He is currently a researcher at Academia Sinica, at both the Institute of Taiwan History and the Institutum Iurisprudentiae.