Aoun, Fady BEc (Hons), LLB (Hons) (Sydney) is a lecturer at law at Sydney University. He teaches Corporations Law and Intellectual Property. His research and teaching interests are mainly in corporations law and intellectual property.

Professor Aronson is a professor of law at Hitotsubashi University's Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy. He received his undergraduate degree from Boston University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1977. Professor Aronson was a corporate partner at the law firm of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in New York (1989-2000) and a professor of law at Creighton University (2004-2013). His experience in Japan includes research at the University of Tokyo (2000-2002, 2004), the Bank of Japan (2010), and Waseda University (2011-2013). His main area of research is comparative corporate governance with a focus on Japan. He also acts as an advisor to the law firm of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu.

Vivienne Bath is Professor of Chinese and International Business Law at Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, Director of the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law and Chair of the China Studies Centre Research Committee at the University of Sydney. Her teaching and research interests are in international business and economic law, private international law and Chinese law (particularly Chinese investment and commercial law).

She has first class honours in Chinese and in Law from the Australian National University, and a Master of Laws from Harvard University. She has also studied in China and Germany . She is admitted to practice in Australia, New York, England and Hong Kong and, prior to joining Sydney Law School, was a partner of international law firm Coudert Brothers. Representative publications include: Bath, V, 'Foreign investment, the national interest and national security - foreign direct investment in Australia and China,' (2012) 34 Sydney Law Review 5-34); Bath and Nottage (eds), Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia, Routledge, 2011, and Bath, V, 'ASEAN: The Liberalization of Investment through Regional Agreements,' in Trackman and Ranieri (eds) Regionalism in International Investment Law, Oxford University Press, 2013. Professor Bath speaks Chinese (mandarin) and German.

Dr. Harald Baum is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Japan Law Department at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg; Professor at the University of Hamburg; Research Associate at the European Corporate Governance Institute, Brussels.

Harald graduated from Freiburg University in 1977 and received his doctorate and Habilitation from the University of Hamburg in 1984 and 2004 respectively; admission to the Hamburg bar in 1981. He joined the Institute in 1985; in 1990-91 he was guest researcher at the Kyoto University (AvH / JSPS postdoctoral fellowship); in 2005 Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo. He serves as a Vice-president of the German-Japanese Association of Jurists and is, among others a Member of the Advisory Board of the Australian Network of Japanese Law, of the Académie Internationale de Droit Comparé, the European Law Institute, the German Society of International Law and the German Society of Comparative Law.

Harald has authored and edited numerous books and articles on business law, corporate governance, and capital markets in Germany, the EU, Japan, and the U.S. He is the executive founding editor of the Journal of Japanese Law.

Hsin-Ti, Chang is a professor of law at National Taipei University, where she teaches Company Law, Securities Regulation, and Law and Economics. Professor Chang holds a LL.M. and J.S.D. degree from University of California at Berkeley Law School, U.S.A. and a LL.B. degree from National Taiwan University. Before her academic career, she was a practicing lawyer in Taiwan specializing in business and securities transactions. Her research focuses on various topics on corporate law, securities regulations and law and economics. She has published many articles in law reviews and journals in those areas of interest. Her most recent three papers are regarding the staggered board, remuneration committee, and shareholder's inspection right

Andrew Harding is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at NUS. His work has related mainly to constitutional issues in SE Asia, but also to comparative law and law and development. He has published extensively on Malaysia. His latest book, The Constitution of Malaysia: A Contextual Analysis (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2012), is part of the series Constitutional Systems of the World, of which Professor Harding is also co-founding-editor. His book Law, Government and the Constitution in Malaysia MLJ, Kuala Lumpur, 1996) is a leading text on the subject. With Professor HP Lee he co-edited Constitutional Landmarks in Malaysia: The First 50 Years, 1957-2007 (Kuala Lumpur, LexisNexis 2007). He has published numerous articles and book chapters on the Malaysian Constitution and Malaysian law.

Professor Kim teaches corporate law and securities regulation at Seoul National University. A graduate of SNU, he has an LLM from Harvard and a JD and a PhD from University of Washington. He has published numerous articles and books including two textbooks on corporate law and securities regulation.

Dmitry Kopylov read for his undergraduate degree in law at M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University from which he graduated summa cum laude. While a student, he served a two - year internship in the Moscow office of Linklaters LLP. He subsequently took a master's degree in corporate law from the University of Cambridge. He is currently a PhD student at M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. His dissertation explores the institute of share repurchases in Russia through the prism of foreign legislative experience. While working on his dissertation, he published a number of articles on Russian corporate law.

Souichirou Kozuka (PhD, Tokyo) is Professor of Law at Gakushuin University, Tokyo. He specializes in commercial law, corporate law and maritime law and researches in comparative law studies. His English recent publications include: "Reform After a Decade of the Companies Act: Why, How, and to Where?", Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht, Nr.37, S.39-50 (2014); "Policy and Politics in Contract Law Reform in Japan" (co-authored with Luke Nottage), in: The Method and Culture of Comparative Law (Maurice Adams & Dirk Heirbaut (eds.)), pp.235-253 (2014). He is a correspondent of UNIDROIT and Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL).

Lan Luh Luh has a PhD (Business Policy) from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and a LLM (First Class) in Commercial Law from the University of Cambridge. She currently holds a joint position with both the NUS Business School and Law School. She specializes in company law, corporate finance law and corporate governance. She has published in both internationally-ranked management and law journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Journal of Business Law, and Singapore Journal of Legal Studies. She was a contributor to Walter Woon on Company Law, rev 3rd ed (2008) and Woon's Corporation Law. She teaches Corporate Law and Finance, Corporate and Securities Law and Corporate Governance at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, including the joint-degree UCLA-NUS Executive MBA programme. She was the Assistant Dean at NUS Business School (2008-09) and is currently the Deputy Director of the Centre for Law & Business.

Dr. Yu-Hsin Lin's research focuses on corporate governance, director independence and securities litigation. She approaches these topics from empirical and interdisciplinary perspectives. Dr. Lin's scholarship has been published in international journals, including New York University Journal of Law & Business, San Diego International Law Journal, and George Mason Journal of International Commercial Law etc. Dr. Lin holds a J.S.D. degree from Stanford Law School and had been a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School. Prior to joining City University of Hong Kong, she was an assistant professor at National Chengchi University, College of Law in Taiwan. Before her academic career, she was a practicing lawyer specializing in business and securities transactions

Manabu Matsunaka is Associate Professor of Law at Nagoya University. His main research areas are law on hostile takeovers and corporate governance of Japanese listed firms. Recently he is intensively researching about board composition in Japanese firms and roles of Kansayaku (statutory auditor). Before Nagoya University, he was an assistant professor at Osaka University (2008-2009) and an associate professor at Niigata University (2009-2010). Further information is available at http://www.law.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~m-matsunaka/index.html

Luke Nottage (BCA, LLB, PhD VUW, LLM Kyoto) specialises in corporate governance, contract law, arbitration, and consumer product safety law, with a particular interest in Japan and the Asia-Pacific. He is Professor of Comparative and Transnational Business Law at Sydney Law School, founding Co-Director of the Australian Network for Japanese Law (sydney.edu.au/law/anjel), and Associate Director of the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney. Luke's books include Product Safety and Liability Law in Japan (Routledge, 2004), Corporate Governance in the 21st Century: Japan's Gradual Transformation (Elgar, 2008), International Arbitration in Australia (Federation Press, 2010), Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and practice in Asia (Routledge, 2011), Consumer Law and Policy in Australia and New Zealand (Federation Press, 2013) and Asia-Pacific Disaster Management (Springer, 2014). He has (had) executive roles in the Law Council of Australia, the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, and the Asia-Pacific Forum for International Arbitration. Luke has also consulted for law firms world-wide, ASEAN, the EC, the OECD, the UNDP and the Japanese government, and is founding Managing Director of Japanese Law Links Pty Ltd (www.japaneselawlinks.com).

Dr. Dan W. Puchniak is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore and is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Commercial Law Centre at Harris Manchester College, Oxford University. He specialises in company law with an emphasis on comparative corporate law in Asia. Dan has published widely on comparative, Asian, Japanese and Singapore corporate law and governance and is regularly invited to present his scholarship and lecture at leading law schools around the world. Dan has received numerous domestic and international awards for his academic research and teaching. Most recently, his article on derivative actions in Asia was awarded the Best Paper Prize at the annual Corporate Law Teachers Association Conference. He was also recently placed on the National University of Singapore Annual Teaching Excellence Award Honour Roll as recognition for receiving the university wide NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award three times. Also, he was recently selected by the Open Society Foundations to be a Fellow and Visiting Professor in the Department of Law at the University of Yangon. Dan is currently the ASEAN Convener for the Australian Network for Japanese Law and a member of the Editorial Board for the Max Planck Institute's Journal of Japanese Law. Prior to entering academia, Dan worked as a corporate commercial litigator at one of Canada's leading law firms.

Wolf-Georg Ringe is Professor of International Commercial Law at Copenhagen Business School. He also teaches at the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, where he holds a permanent visiting professorship. In Oxford, he is a Research Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law and an associate member of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance.

He has held visiting positions around the world, most recently a visiting professorship at Columbia Law School in spring 2014. Professor Ringe is the general editor of the new Journal of Financial Regulation, which will be published by Oxford University Press starting in 2015. He has been advising both the European Commission and the European Parliament on issues of European company law. Professor Ringe teaches various courses in the field of corporate and business law, and his current research interests are in the general area of law and finance, comparative corporate governance, capital and financial markets, insolvency law and conflict of laws.

Tan Cheng Han is a Professor of Law and Chairman of the Centre for Law & Business at the NUS Faculty of Law. He is a Senior Counsel and served as the Dean of the NUS Faculty of Law until 2012. Prior to joining academia, Professor Tan was a partner in Drew & Napier's litigation department. His current appointments include being Chairman of the Singapore Media Literacy Council, Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Move-On and Filming Orders; Advisor to the Singapore Tae Kwon-do Federation, a Commissioner of the Competition Commission of Singapore, a member of the Appeal Advisory Panel to the Singapore Minister for Finance, a member of the Military Court of Appeal in Singapore and a member of the Governing Board of the International Association of Law Schools in the US. Professor Tan has also been a Visiting Professor at the East China University of Political Science and Law, National Taiwan University and Peking University.

Professor Tan's recent publications include: (1) The Law of Agency (Academy Publishing, 2010); (2) Unauthorised agency in English Law, in The Unauthorised Agent: Perspectives from European and Comparative Law (Cambridge University Press, 2009); (3) Change and Yet Continuity: What Next After 50 Years of Legal Education in Singapore?, The Singapore Journal of Legal Studies (2007).

Tang Xin is a law professor of Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing, China, his interests include the fields of corporation law, securities regulation and comparative corporate governance. Apart from his work on campus, he also provides expert services for China Association of Public Companies and Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Born in 1971, Taipei City, Professor Ying-Hsin Tsai received her Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws from NTU, a second Master of Laws from the University of Tokyo, and a Doctor of Laws from the University of Tokyo. Professor Tsai has practiced as a lawyer with commercial law as expertise. Her research has focused on corporate law, maritime law, payment systems, international business law, and the regulation of financial institutions. Professor Tsai is a widely published author of articles on corporate law and maritime law in both Chinese and Japanese.