Panelist, “2018 Shenzhen International Forum on Belt and Road Initiative,” Shenzhen, China, January 17, 2018 (with Stepan Mesić, former President of Croatia; Dusan Bella, Ambassador Extraordinaire, Slovak Republic; Cosmin Necula, Mayor of Bacău, Romania; Alexandros Modiano, Deputy Mayor, Athens, Greece; Zhu Huayou, Deputy Secretary General, Hainan; and Wu Sikang, Director of Development, Shenzhen).
Panelist, Chulalongkorn University, “Conference on Global Legal Education,” Bangkok, Thailand, January 8, 2018 (with David Kennedy, Manley Hudson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Surakiart Sathirati, former Foreign Minister of Thailand; and Vitit Muntarbhorn, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Gender Equality).
Guest, “World Insight,” CGTN’s (China) nationwide television program on global affairs. Fellow guests for this episode included Dr. Victor Gao, personal interpreter for Deng Xiaoping, and Professor Hai Wen, one of China’s leading development economists. Aired on October 16, 2017; hosted by journalist Tian Wei.
“Globalization of Legal Education: The Case of Peking University School of Transnational Law,” University of California, Irvine School of Law and Australian National University School of Regulation and Global Governance, Symposium on Globalization and Legal Education, September 8-9, 2017.
“China’s Impact on the Western Legal Tradition: A Preview from the Pearl River Delta,” Amity University Law Faculty (Noida), Jamia Millia Islamia University (Delhi), Jindal Global Law School (Sonipat), Sharda University School of Law (Delhi), Symbiosis Law School (Noida), and NIRMA University Institute of Law (Ahmedabad), India, February 2-9, 2017.
“The Interplay of Different Legal and Commercial Traditions Among ‘One Belt, One Road’ Partners,” KIMEP University Faculty of Law and al-Farabi Kazakh National University Faculty of Law, Almaty, Kazakhstan, October 24-25, 2016.
“Preparing for the Sinicization of the Western Legal Tradition: The Case of Peking University School of Transnational Law,” VI St. Petersburg International Legal Forum (Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, presiding), St. Petersburg, Russia, May 18, 2016.
“The Potential of Private Commercial Arbitration for Facilitating Economic Growth in Less Developed Countries,”2016 Congress of International Council for Commercial Arbitration, Mauritius, May 9, 2016.
“Experiments with Legal Education in China: One Step Ahead of the EU and U.S.?” Keynote Address, Plenary Session, European Law Faculties Association (“ELFA”) Annual Meeting, Istanbul, April 2015.
Panelist, “The Rule of Law in China’s Free Trade Areas,” China Free Trade Zone Arbitration Forum, Authority of Qianhai, Shenzhen, China, April 2015.
“Innovations in Legal Education in China,” Xi’an Jiao Tong University Symposium on Global Legal Education, Xi’an, China, November 2014.
“Developments in Legal Education in China,” Annual Conference of Turkey’s Court of Cassation, Constitutional Court and High Council of Judges and Prosecutors, Antalya, Turkey, October 2013.
“Commentary on Professor Kun Fan’sArbitration in China,” Institute for Transnational Arbitration, Annual Conference, Miami, Florida, January 2013.
“Why American Influence on International Commercial Arbitration May Not Be Such a Good Idea,” Keynote Address, Loyola University Chicago School of Law International Law Review Annual Symposium, Chicago, Illinois, February 2012.
“The Role of Arbitration in Economic Development,” ICC-Palestine Symposium on International Commercial Arbitration, Ramallah, Palestinian Territories, December 2011.
“Pursuing Global Legal Education,” Keynote Address, European Law Faculties Association (“ELFA”) Annual Meeting, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, February 2011.
“Emerging Trends in Legal Education,” United States Judicial Conference for the Third Circuit (all Third Circuit federal judges), Hershey, Pennsylvania, April 2010.