YIJUN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW - Key Persons
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- Senior Legal Advisor / Consultant
Arina Novizas Shebubakar is a Senior Legal Advisor/Consultant at energy company and lecturer at University of Al Azhar (Indonesia) teaching Contract Drafting and Law Theory. Before, she was a senior legal counsellor at mining private company in Indonesia. Arina obtained her LL.B., LL.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Indonesia. In 2009, Arina became an Indonesia Legislative Candidate from the Golkar Party in Indonesia. She is also the author of "Towards Gender Laws" (Menuju Hukum yang Berkeadilan Gender) at Suara Karya (Indonesia Local Newspaper) on April 23, 2007. Arina was the second runner up of Miss South Jakarta 2004 supported by Jakarta Government Tourism. She is married and has two daughters. She may be contacted at:+62 812 84647007 or no_fee_jazz@yahoo.com
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- Lecturer in Atma Jaya University, Jakarta, Indonesia
Asmin Fransiska is a Lecturer in Atma Jaya University, Jakarta, Indonesia. She got the Master Degree (LL.M with Honors) from School of Law, Northwestern University, Chicago, - USA. She is also a Coordinator of Indonesian Drug Policy Reform (ICDPR) which contains Law Faculty, Research Centre on HIV/AIDS, NGOs and Female Organization. In 2004, she worked as a UN-Fulbright Fellow in the Rule of Law Division at the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Geneva, Switzerland. Currently, she is teaching Human Rights Law, Children and Women Protection, European Law and also International Law of Treaties. She works also with some UN Agencies as National Consultant, Facilitators in some Human Rights Trainings as well as Researchers. Her areas of research are human rights, the rights to health, women and children protection.
She can be reached at asmin. fransiska@atmajaya.ac.id or fransiskaid@yahoo.com
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- Senior Advisor
- Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration / Professor Emeritus Kyunghee University )
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- Member of the Board of Directors
Dr. Gong Xiangqian 龚向前 got a Ph.D (law) Degree from Wuhan University, China in 2005 and a Certification of Post-doctoral Researcher of Tsinghua University, China in 2007. He is an associate professor of law at Beijing Institute of Technology Law School, China, and acting as an academic visitor of University of Dundee, CEPMLP, UK. Professor GONG is interested in international and comparative law focusing on energy, environment, and public health. His academic positions have also included member of State Health and Quarantine Experts Commission of China, Member of Chinese Association of Energy Law, Council Member of Chinese Association of Environmental Law, etc. Professor Gong's most recent book is "Studies on International Law Issues on Infectious Diseases Control" (Law Press, Beijing, 2010). He has also published a book named "Energy Law Reform for Climate Protection" (China Democracy and Law Press, Beijing, 2008). He may be contacted at: g-xq@163.com
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- Assistant Professor at Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah
- Malaysian Correspondent
Dr. Haniff Ahamat is an assistant professor at Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah (Faculty) of Laws (AIKOL), International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). He has been with AIKOL since 2001. He holds an LL.B. (Hons) from IIUM, an LL.M. from University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and a Ph.D. from University of Essex, United Kingdom. He wrote his doctoral thesis on the consumer perspectives of Malaysian and EC anti-dumping regimes. Dr. Haniff teaches public international law and legal method at undergraduate level. He is currently developing a course module on international economic law at the master's level in AIKOL. Dr. Haniff has deep interest in researching into and publishing on public international law and international economic law. His key publications are an article on the framework and justifications for intra-OIC trade liberalization, which appeared in the Journal of Economic Cooperation and Development, and another article on the position of Islamic international law on free trade, which was published by Journal of the History of International Law. Dr. Haniff Ahamat can be contacted at ahaniff@iium.edu.my.
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- Chairman of YIJUN Institute Had an Interview With the Journal of East Asia & International Law in October 8, 2012
Dr. Jay Kun Yoo, chairman of YIJUN Institute had an interview with the Journal of East Asia & International Law in October 8, 2012.
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- Professor of Law at the Law Department
Dr. Tsung-Sheng Liao is a Professor of Law at the Law Department of the National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. He is currently the Director of Center for ESG and Sustainability Innovation (ESIC). He earned his LL.M. and S.J.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School, US, in 2008. Professor Liao was a Visiting Scholar at UW Law School in 2014 and UC Berkeley Law School in 2019-2020 and a Visiting Professor at the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, British Columbia, Canada in 2016-17. His research focuses on international environmental law, climate change law and policy, transnational energy law and policy, and business and human rights. He has participated in many national-level research projects in the field of climate change law, renewable energy regulations, carbon capture and storage regulations, and business and human rights. He is the author of International/Transnational Environmental Law (2022) and the co-author of Republic of China and International Law－Important Events during One Hundred Republic Years (2011) and Conceptual Strategies of Carbon Capture and Storage Regulatory Framework in Taiwan (2012). He has published over 40 articles with regard to climate change issues, energy issues, human rights issues, and sustainability issues. He has also been invited to present scholarly papers in different countries, such as Bahrain, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Korea, Norway, Singapore, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam and so on. He may be contacted at: lawtsl@ccu.edu.tw.
Dr. Mahmud obtained his LL.B (Hons.) degree from the International Islamic University Malaysia (1995), LL.M from the University of Malaya, and Ph.D in Law from University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Currently, he is the Head of Industry and Community Partnerships at the Faculty of Law, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) where he also teaches public International law and cultural heritage law at the same Faculty. He has also been guest lecturer for Marine Law & Policy and Environmental Law at the Faculty of Science and Technology UKM. He is actively engaged in research and academic supervision in these areas. Recently, he was invited to speak on ‘protection of cultural property during armed conflict' at the 5th ICRC Southeast Asian Teaching Session on International Humanitarian Law at Puri Pujangga, Bangi, Malaysia. In his spare time, he works on architectural and street photography. Dr. Zuhdi may be contacted at: zuhdi@ukm.my
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Global Partner & Director, Oliver Wyman Korea )
Dae Un Hong is currently a JSD candidate at Cornell Law School. He holds a B.A. in International Relations from Seoul National University and a J.D. from Hanyang Law School in Korea. He practiced law in Korea and participated in the government research projects. He has published articles in both US and Korean journals, including Decline of Civil Jury Trial and Changes in Hearsay Rule of Civil Evidence Acts across the World in Pusan Law Review and African Studies in East Asia in Cornell Institute for African Development Bulletin. He has translated more than a dozen books, including To Steal a Book is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization written by William P. Alford. His primary research interest lies in the social aspects of law. He may be contacted at: dh632@cornell.
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- Senior Advisor
- President of the YIJUN Press )
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Senior Prosecutor, the Seoul Prosecutor 's Office ) Senior Fellow
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chairman, Law Firm Purme )
NGUYEN DANG Thang obtained a BA in International Relations from the Institute for International Relations (now the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam), Hanoi in 1999 and an LLM in Public International Law from the School of Law of the University of Nottingham in 2006. Between 2000-2008, he worked as a legal expert inthe International Law and Treaty Department of the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs andin that capacity attended various international, regional and bilateral negotiations and conferences. Besides legal practice, he was also a visiting lecturer of the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam and co-convened a course on "Treaty Law and Practice". Heis currently a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge and a member of Queens' College, Cambridge. In 2009-10 and 2010-11 respectively Thang served in the Editorial Boardas Editor and Managing Editorof the Cambridge Student Law Review - a student-run law journal. Mr Nguyen Dang is also an associate of the Centre for South China Sea Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam. He can be contacted at thang.nguyendang@yahoo.co.uk
Job Titles:
- Senior Lecturer
- Myanmar Correspondent
Jonathan Liljeblad is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School of the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He received a Ph.D. and J.D. from the University of Southern California. Jonathan also studied civil engineering and applied science at California Institute of Technology (B.S.) and the University of Washington (M.S.). He authored books and academic articles in internationally referred journals including Understanding the Complexities of Civil Disobedience for Cyberspace Protests in the Case of Aaron Swartz , 42 RUTGERS COMPUTER & TECHNOLOGY JOURNAL (2016). Jonathan is editor-in-chief of INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RURAL LAW & POLICY. His research interests are in international law, human rights, and environmental issues. Jonathan is currently engaged in field research in Southeast Asia. He may be contacted at: jliljeblad@swin.edu.au
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- Assistant Professor of Law at Department of Global Commerce
Sun Young Oh is an assistant professor of law at Department of Global Commerce, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea and Director of Soongsil Economic and Trade Research Institute. She studied law at Ewha Woman's University (LL.B.) and got an LL.M. (trade regulation) and SJD Degree (international trade and environmental law) from New York University (2005) and American University Washington College of Law (2010), respectively. Professor Oh joined the New York State Bar in 2005. She was a research professor at Yonsei University before joining Soongsil in 2012. Her research interests focus on international trade and environmental law. She is now member of the governing board of the Korean Society of International Economic Law and the Korean Society of International Law. She may be contacted at: sunoh@ssu.ac.kr
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors