Prof. Meredith Lewis Kolsky joined the Faculty of Law in January 2005. Meredith is the Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law. She teaches international trade law at the undergraduate and master’s level and has recently provided international trade law training to Indonesian law professors as well as to New Zealand and Vietnamese government officials. Meredith is a member of the International Trade Law Committee of the International Law Association; a Founding Executive Committee member and current Executive Vice President of the Society of International Economic Law; and a member of the Asian WTO Research Network. Before joining Victoria, Meredith was a senior associate practising litigation and international trade with Shearman & Sterling LLP in Washington DC and Tokyo. Her practice included defending foreign corporations in antidumping, countervailing duty, and safeguard actions; counselling corporations and foreign governments on a wide variety of WTO and NAFTA-related issues; and representing clients in commercial litigation and arbitration. Meredith’s research interests include international economic law; international dispute settlement; and alternative dispute resolution.Prof. Junji Nakagwa has written extensively in the field of international economic law. His publications include: Commentaries on the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) (Japan Tariff Association, 2019, in Japanese); Asian Perspectives on International Investment Law (ed., Routledge, 2019); Nationalization, Natural Resources and International Investment Law (Routledge, 2017); Transparency in International Trade and Investment Dispute Settlement (ed., Routledge, 2013); WTO: Beyond Trade Liberalization (Iwanami shoten, 2013, in Japanese); International Harmonization of Economic Regulation (Oxford University Press, 2011), Multilateralism and Regionalism in Global Economic Governance (ed., Routledge, 2011); Anti-Dumping Laws and Practices of the New Users (ed., Cameron May 2007); and Managing Development: Globalization, Economic Restructuring and Social Policy (ed., Routledge, 2006). Rostam J. Neuwirth is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Global Legal Studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau. He has published in many peer-reviewed international journals in the field of international economic law and related areas, and recently co-edited an academic book on the cooperation between the BRICS countries (Brazil. Russia, India, China, South Africa) with Cambridge University Press (2017) and a monograph with Routledge (2018). Neuwirth is also a member of the editorial boards of the journal “Law, Technology and Humans” (https://lthj.qut.edu.au/), the “BRICS Law Journal”(https://www.bricslawjournal.com/jour), and the book series “Law and Visual Jurisprudence” (Springer: https://www.springer.com/series/16413).Prof. Colin B. Picker is the Pro Vice Chancellor (South Western Sydney) and Dean, School of Law, Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, at the University of Wollongong. Previously, Professor Picker was at UNSW Law, serving in many capacities including as Associate Dean (International); Director (and founder) of the China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Initiative; and Director of the IBEL Stream of the LLM. Prior to joining UNSW, Professor Picker was the Daniel L. Brenner/UMKC Scholar & Professor of Law at the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law. Professor Picker entered academia in 2000, after practicing in the Washington, D.C., law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. Professor Picker's practice included transnational & trade litigation, international transactions and international congressional policy work. numerous other publications in international economic law, relevant for this book proposal Picker has previously successfully edited six legal academic books: two with Hart(2018, 2008), one with Springer (2016); one with Cambridge University Press (2015); one for Schulthess/Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (2014); and one for the American Society of International Law (2006). Prof. Peter-Tobias Stoll holds the Jean Monnet Chair for European Union and Global Sustainable Development through Law and is a Professor for Public and Public International Law and at the University of Göttingen. He co-directs the Institute for International Law and European Law and heads the Department for International Economic and Environmental Law. Further, he serves as one of the Directors of the Institute for Agricultural Law at Faculty and as the German Director of the Sino-German Institute for Legal Studies of the Universities of Nanjing and Göttingen at Nanjing University. His research focus is on international and European economic and environmental law.
