Na Chang
was educated at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. She worked on maritime history and the encounter between the East and the West in the late middle ages during her Ph.D. studies. She is now a research fellow at China Center for Collaborative Studies of the South China Sea, Nanjing University. Na is currently working on two major projects: European perspective on South China Sea disputes; European experiences on how to resolve maritime disputes. In the meantime, she is working as the Deputy Editor of Cambridge Journal of China Studies.
Mary George
is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya and the Unit Head of the Maritime Law and Policy Unit of the Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences. She is the Vice-President for South East Asia of the Asian Society of International Law and its Executive Council member. A former Fulbright Scholar, her academic research focuses on public international law and law of the sea, equity and trusts and criminal law. She has authored books, chapters in books, articles and case notes in these areas. She has also taught these subjects and has spoken at scientific conferences both nationally and internationally. She offers technical consultancies on the law of the sea issues to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is actively involved in collaborative international inter-governmental research in the law of the sea. She is also a member of the UN Working Group of the Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
Christopher John Jenner
is First Sea Lord Fellow; Research Associate, Centre of Geopolitics and Grand Strategy, University of Cambridge; Research Fellow, King’s College London; and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for China-America Studies. He holds Master of Studies and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Modern History from the University of Oxford. He has won various awards and fellowships: Economic and Social Research Council Fellow, University of Oxford; Research Fellow, Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies, Joint Services Command and Staff College, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom; Research Fellow, New England Centre and Home for Veterans; Research Fellow, St Cross College, University of Oxford; Research and Teaching Fellow, University of London; Research Fellow, University of Massachusetts; Research Fellow, William Joiner Institute
Jeong Woo (Jimmy) Kim
graduated from Handong International Law School, Pohang, South Korea, with a Master of Laws (J.D. equivalent) in U.S. & International Law. An active mooter at law school, he advanced to the finals of the Jessup Moot Court Competition in Seoul, Korea. After graduation, he briefly clerked for Justice Tom Parker at the Supreme Court of Alabama, and pursued an LL.M. in Law & Religion at Emory University. He is currently an adjunct lecturer at Handong University, and serves as an editor for the Korean Journal of International & Comparative Law and the Asian Yearbook of International Law.
Seokwoo Lee
is a professor of international law at Inha University Law School, Korea. He is also Director of Inha International Ocean Law Centre, Inha University; Director of international relations, Korean Society of International Law; Chairman of Research Committee, Sea Lanes of Communication (sloc) Study Group-Korea; and member of the Governing Board of the Foundation for the Development of International Law in Asia (dila), The Hague. He has experiences in organizing a dozen major international conferences, including the annual International Conference on the Law of the Sea and Ocean Policy with the Law of the Sea Institute (losi), University of California Berkeley. He has taught at various universities including in 2009 at Marco Polo – Zheng He Academy, Xiamen University, China.
Masahiro Miyoshi
is Professor Emeritus of International Law, Aichi University, Japan. B.A. from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, 1960; M.A. in Law from Keio-Gijuku University Graduate School of Law, Tokyo, 1963; Participated in a seminar at the Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and Inernational Relations, the Hague Academy of International Law, July-September, 1970; M.Phil./Ph.D. studies in International Law in the Faculty of Laws at King’s College
David M. Ong
is Professor of International and Environmental Law at the Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, UK. His main research interests are in the International Law of the Sea, particularly on offshore joint development, published in American Journal of International Law (1999); and International Environmental Law, published in European Journal of International Law (2001) & Irish Yearbook of International Law, 2006 (2008), Yearbook of International Environmental Law, 2006 (2008), Nordic Journal of International Law (2010), and Netherlands International Law Review (2011); as well as several edited volumes of essays, three of which he has co-edited. More recent publications are: ‘Specifying Procedural Obligations for Joint Development and Alternative Joint Development Models for the South China Sea’, in Wu Shicun and Nong Hong (eds), Recent Developments in the South China Sea Dispute: The Prospect of a Joint Development Regime, Routledge (2014) Chapter 7, 99–136; and ‘Alternative Approaches to Piracy and Armed Robbery in Southeast Asian Waters and off the Horn of Africa: A Comparative Perspective’, in The Law and Practice of Piracy at Sea: European and International Perspectives, ed. by Panos Koutrakos and Achilles Skordas, Hart (2014) Chapter 12, 267–295. He has also served as a consultant on offshore joint development issues to the Guyana legal team in the Guyana-Suriname maritime boundary delimitation arbitration (2007); and as a technical resource expert on Joint Development at the Second United Nations Development Programme (undp) South-South High Level Meeting on Oil and Gas Producing Developing Countries held in Nairobi, Kenya, 12–15 October 2009.
Lorenzo Schiano di Pepe
graduated in law cum laude in 1997 from the University of Genoa and, after having attended the University of London, the Georgetown University Law Centre under a Fulbright scholarship and the University of Milan, joined the
Robin Warner
is a Professor at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, University of Wollongong, Australia. She was formerly the Assistant Secretary of the International Crime Branch of the Criminal Justice Division in the Commonwealth Attorney General’s Department from 2002 to 2006. During that period she led twelve Australian delegations to bilateral and multilateral delegations on transnational crime and criminal justice cooperation issues. Previously she served with the Royal Australian Navy as a legal officer. During her Defence Force legal career, Captain Warner occupied a wide range of positions including Director of International Law for the Australian Defence Force and Deputy Director of Naval Legal Services.
Christopher Whomersley, cmg
has retired as Deputy Legal Adviser in the United Kingdom’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office after a career spanning thirty-six years and covering many areas of international law. Chris spent a number of years dealing with aviation issues, and he has been involved in the Channel Tunnel project since its inception. For the last ten years, he was responsible for policy on international law of the sea. This included dealing with these issues both multilaterally and bilaterally, as well as in the European Union. He led the United Kingdom delegations in a number of bilateral negotiations on maritime delimitation. He was also
Julia Guifang Xue
is Chair Professor of KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University where she serves as Executive Director to the Research Base on National Marine Rights and Strategy, and Center for Polar and Deep Ocean Development. Before she shifted her base to Shanghai in June 2013, she worked at Ocean University of China (ouc) where she directed, during 2005–2013, the Institute for the Law of the Sea, the first of its kind established in China. In ouc, she also chaired the Department of International Law, School of Law and Political Science. Besides directing the Institute, she takes responsibilities for funding application and project operation. She chairs governmental funded projects for drafting up national marine laws and regulations, provides consultancy on policy-making and practical issues to ocean-related agencies, and conducts training courses for their administrative personnel and enforcement teams. She has research interests in the areas of ocean law and policy, conservation of marine living resources, and protection of marine environment. She has published books and journal articles on these issues, and provided consultancy to the ocean-related governmental agencies of China. She involves actively in academic activities home and abroad, and sits in committees as Professional Adviser or working as a resource person for ocean related agencies and serves as executive member of academic associations. She also teaches at the Bremen University, Germany to Erasmus Mundus M.S. in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (embc) on Law of the Sea and Marine Environmental Protection.
Hua Zhang
studied Public International Law at the Institute of International Law, Wuhan University (2003–2009), where he received his master’s degree (July 2006) and Ph.D. degree (July 2009) in International Law. Since July 2009, he has worked at the Faculty of Law at Nanjing University as Associate Professor, where he gives lectures on Public International Law and EU Law for both undergraduates and postgraduates. His main research interests lie in International Institutional Law, International Dispute Settlement, Law of the Sea, and Law of War. His recent research programmes focus on International Law of Maritime
Feng Zhu
began his college studies at the Department of International Politics of Peking University in 1981 and received his Ph.D. from Peking University in 1991. He was a professor at the university’s School of International Studies. Dr. Zhu took offer from Nanjing University in January 2014. He currently is Executive Director of China Center for Collaborative Innovation of the South China Sea Studies, and Dean of Institute of International Studies, Nanjing University. Dr. Zhu served as research fellow at several distinguished institutes, including the Washington-based Center for Strategic & International Studies (csis), and the Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies at Harvard University. He was a visiting scholar at Durham University in the UK and visiting professor at the University of Wellington, New Zealand. He writes extensively on regional security in East Asia, North Korea’s nuclear issue, China-US relations and Chinese foreign policy. Prof. Zhu is a leading Chinese security expert and senior research fellow of the Center for Peace and Development of China, and senior research fellow of the Center for Contemporary World Affairs. Dr. Zhu sits on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, including the Australian Journal of International Relations and East Asia Quarterly. He consults independently for the Chinese government and private sector, and comments frequently in television, radio, and print media on China foreign affairs and security policy in the Asia-Pacific. Prof. Zhu is a member of the Committee for Academic Freedom of International Studies Association (isa). His recent books are International Relations Theory and East Asian Security (Beijing: People’s University Press, 2007), China’s Ascent: Power, Security and the Future of International Politics (co-edited with Robert S. Ross, Cornell University Press, 2008), China’s Rise: Theoretical and Practical Examination (Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Press, 2009), China-Japan Defense Exchange and Security Cooperation: the Past, Present and Future (co-edited with Akiyama Masahiro, Tokyo Aiji Press, 2011), and US-China and the World Order (co-edited with John Ikenbery and Wang Jisi, Palgrave, 2014).
is Harris Professor of International Law at the Lancashire Law School of the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), United Kingdom. He specializes in international law, in particular law of the sea and international environmental law. Before joining UCLan, he held academic positions at Dalhousie University (Canada), Peking University (China), University of Hannover (Germany) and National University of Singapore. He has published over 70 refereed English papers in over 30 international journals. His recent books include Arbitration concerning the South China Sea: Philippines versus China (2016), Sustainable Development and the Law of the Sea (2016), and Global Commons and the Law of the Sea (2018). He is member of Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, Ocean Development and International Law, Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, Marine Policy, Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies, and Chinese Journal of International Law, as well as member of the Advisory Boards of the Global Journal of Comparative Law, Asia Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy, Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law and China Oceans Law Review.