Faculty Profile

Pasha L. Hsieh is Lee Kong Chian Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Chair at Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law, where he heads the United Nations University Hub on Green and Digital Regionalism. Prior to academia, he served as a Legal Affairs Officer at the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat in Geneva and practiced at Shearman & Sterling in Washington, D.C. His research spans international economic law, public international law, and Asian legal studies. His monograph New Asian Regionalism in International Economic Law (Cambridge University Press) has been translated into Chinese and Japanese. Hsieh was recently elected to the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. He sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Economic Law and is a panel member of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. He has won research grants from the European Commission, the Korea Foundation, the Sumitomo Foundation of Japan, and the Ministries of Education of Singapore and Taiwan.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Political Science, Free University of Brussels
• J.D., University of Pennsylvania
• LL.M., University of Pennsylvania
• LL.B., National Chengchi University
• Attorney and Counselor-at-Law, New York

Course Taught in SMU

• Law of International Trade
• EU-ASEAN Law and Relations
• Overseas Project Experience (SMU-X)
• Ethics and Social Responsibility

Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation

• WTO and International Economic Law
• Green Regionalism and Sustainability
• ASEAN Law and Policy
• China, Singapore, Taiwan and International Law
• Recognition Theory in International Law and International Relations

Related Links

• Pasha L. Hsieh, Green Regionalism in World Trade Law, World Trade Review (2025)
• Pasha L. Hsieh, Beyond Non-Recognition: U.S.–Taiwan Trade Agreements in Indo-Pacific Dynamics, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law (2025)
• Pasha L. Hsieh, Is the Hague Academy of International Law a European institution? Hague Yearbook of International Law (2024)
• Pasha L. Hsieh, Shaping New Interregionalism: The EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement and Beyond, Leiden Journal of International Law (2022)