Faculty Profile

• Doctor of Law, Ghent University, Belgium, 2012
• LLM, Wuhan University, China, 2007
• LLB, Wuhan University, China, 2004

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

• Associate Professor of Law, Singapore Management University, Jul 2022-Present

Past Appointments:

• Associate Professor & Director, Centre for Environmental Law, Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 2020 - 2022 
• Senior Lecturer, Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide, Australia, 2017 - 2020
• Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of New England, Armidale, Australia, 2015 - 2016

Other Positions

• Founding Director, CCLA Singapore Sustainable Futures Initiative, SMU Yong Pung How School of Law, 2025 - present
• Co-Chair, Law of the Sea Interest Group, American Society of International Law, 2025 - present
• Founding Chair of Steering Committee, Asia Pacific Research Alliance on Law and Sustainability, 2024 – present
• Member, International Law Association Committee Urbanisation and International Law – Potentials and Pitfalls, 2024 – present
• Member of Editorial Board, Polar Record (Cambridge University Press, IF=0.8), 2023 - present
• Member of Editorial Board, Marine Policy (Elsevier, IF=4.315), 2021- present
• Member of Editorial Board, Ocean Development and International Law (Taylor & Francis, IF=1.2), 2021 - present
• Co-Chair, International Environmental Law Interest Group, American Society of International Law, 2021 - 2024
• Member of Governing Board, IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, 2021 - 2024
• Marie Curie Research Fellow, Dundee Law School, University of Dundee, United Kingdom, 2013 - 2015
• “Future Ocean” Postdoctoral Fellow, Walther-Schücking-Institute for International Law, University of Kiel, Germany, 2012 – 2013

Course Taught in SMU

• Introduction to Sustainability Law
• Ethics and Social Responsibility
• Sustainable Ocean Law and Governance

Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation

• Ocean Law and Policy
• International Environmental Law
• Chinese Environmental Law
• International Polar Law

Selected Publications

• Google Scholar author page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sm1425MAAAAJ&hl=en
• Scopus author page: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55075616100
• Nengye Liu, Shirley V. Scott (eds), The Law of the Sea and the Planetary Crisis (Routledge, 2025, London)
• Nengye Liu, Cassandra Brooks, Tianbao Qin (eds), Governing Marine Living Resources in the Polar Regions (Edward Elgar, 2019, Cheltenham)
• Nengye Liu, Elizabeth Kirk, Tore Henriksen (eds), The European Union and the Arctic (Brill Nijhoff, 2017, Leiden/Boston)
• Nengye Liu & Shirley V. Scott, China in the UNCLOS and BBNJ Negotiations, Yesterday once more? Leiden Journal of International Law (2025) 38 (forthcoming)
• Nengye Liu, Establishing Marine Protected Areas in the Southern Ocean, Lessons for the BBNJ Agreement, Marine Policy (2024) 165, 106216
• Nengye Liu, Jan Jakub Solski, “The Polar Silk Road and the Future Governance of Northern Sea Route”, Leiden Journal of International Law (2022) 35 (4) 853-866
• Nengye Liu, Alexander Proelss and Valentin Schatz, “Regulating Exceptions for Research and Exploratory Fishing in Southern Ocean Marine Protected Areas: A Comparative Analysis on Balancing Conservation and Commercial Use”, Ocean Development and International Law (2022) 53 (1) 60-83
• Nengye Liu, “China and One Hundred Years of the Svalbard Treaty, Past, Present and Future”, Marine Policy (2021) 124, 104354
• Nengye Liu, “The Rise of China and Conservation of Marine Living Resources in the Polar Regions”, Marine Policy (2020) 121, 104181
• Nengye Liu, “The Rise of China and the Antarctic Treaty System?”, Australian Journal of Maritime and Ocean Affairs (2019) 11 (2) 120-131
• Nengye Liu, “The European Union and the Establishment of Marine Protected Areas in Antarctica”, International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics (2018) 18 (6) 861-874
• Nengye Liu, Cassandra Brooks, “China’s Changing Position towards Marine Protected Areas in the Southern Ocean: Implications for Future Antarctic Governance”, Marine Policy (2018) 94 189-195
• Nengye Liu, “Will China Build a Green Belt and Road in the Arctic?” Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law (2018) 27 (1) 55-62