Faculty Profile

• LL.M., Harvard University, 1990
• LL.B., National University of Singapore (Second Upper Honours), 1985
• Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore, 1986

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

• Professor of Law, Singapore Management University, January 2015-Present

Previous Appointment:

• Associate Professor of Law, Singapore Management University, December 2007-December 2014
• Associate Dean (Teaching & Curriculum), School of Law, Singapore Management University, 2009-April 2010
• Senior Tutor; Lecturer; Senior Lecturer; Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, 1988-2007

Previous University Appointment

• Member, University Senate, 2014-2016

Other Positions

• President, Society of International Economic Law (January 2025-present)
• Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of International Economic Law (2024-present)
• Member, Governing Board, Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore (April 2022-present)
• Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Blockchain Law (2021-present)
• Member of pool of appeal arbitrators, Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration arrangement (MPIA) (September 2020-present)
• Member, Advisory Committee of the Future of Financial Services Symposium, IEEE World Congress International Conference on Service Computing (2021)
• Ambassador, Education, Global Business Blockchain Council (2021-present)
• Director of Studies, International Law Association, Singapore Branch, April 2017-2020
• Amicus curiae appointed by the Singapore Court of Appeal in an international investor-State treaty dispute (November 2015-April 2016)
• Member, ASEAN Law Association Working Group on Legal Harmonization, 2015-Present 
• Member, International Law Association, Singapore Branch (and member of Founding Committee), 2015-Present
• Co-rapporteur, Committee on Sustainable Development and the Green Economy in International Trade Law, International Law Association, October 2014-2020
• Chair, Trade and Investment Group, Business Law Committee, ASEAN Law Association, September 2014-Present
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of World Investment and Trade, 2013-Present
• Member, Faculty Advisory Committee for Teaching and Learning (FACTL), 2012-2014
• Member, Singapore Anti-dumping Tribunal, by appointment of Minister for Law, 1 Apr 2009-2016
• Member, Executive Council of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), Sept 2008-2016
• Academic Coordinator, World Trade Organization-NUS Regional Trade Policy Course for the Asia-Pacific, 2007
• Member,Legal Education Working Group, Committee to Develop Legal Services in Singapore, 2007
• Member, Evian Brains Trust Group, 2006-2008
• Member, Committee on International Trade Law, International Law Association, 2004-May 2014
• Member, Trade Policy Unit, Institute of Southeast Asia Studies, 2003-2004
• Senior Fellow, Intellectual Property Academy, Singapore, 2003-Present
• Co-ordinator, WTO Study Group, Business Law Standing Committee, ASEAN Law Association, 2003-September 2014
• Member, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, 1997-Present
• Visiting professor, Tilburg Law Department, Tilburg University, Netherlands, 2005
• Visiting Fellow, British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL), 2005
• Visiting Senior Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asia Studies, 2004
• Consultant, World Bank, March 2004
• Trade Law Editor, Singapore Journal of International and Comparative Law, 2003
• Member, Singapore Government team, ASEAN-Korea Free Trade Agreement Joint Study Expert Group, 2003
• Legal Consultant, Ministry of Trade & Industry, Singapore, 2000-2001
• Professional Development Director, Baker & McKenzie (HK), 2000
• Adjunct Faculty, Master in Public Policy Program, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, teaching Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, 2000
• Vice-President, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, 1999-2000
• Member, Attorney-General’s Law Reform Co-ordinating Committee, 1999
• Honorary Treasurer, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, 1998-1999
• Sub-Dean, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, 1993-1996
• Lawyer, Donaldson & Burkinshaw, 1986-1988

Awards

• 2022: SMU-X Excellent Teacher nomination
• 2021: Dean's Teaching Excellence Award 2020-21 
• 2018: Nominee, Lee Kuan Yew Fellowship
• 2018: Nominee, Innovative Teacher Award
• 2016: Nominated: SMU Excellent Teacher Award nomination
• 2016: Most Outstanding Teacher Award LGST Teacher Award 2015-16
• 2014: Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award 2013-14
• 2013: Most Outstanding LGST Teacher Award 2012-13
• 2012: Most Outstanding Teacher Award 2011-12
• 2010: Nominee, Distinguished Teacher award, SMU
• 2010: Most Outstanding Legal Studies (LGST) Teacher Award 2010-11
• 2008: Most Outstanding Teacher Award, 2007-8

Courses Taught in SMU

• Law & Digital Commerce (SMU-X course)
• Contract Law
• Trade & Investment Law
• Business Law

Research Areas

• International Trade Law
• International Investment Law
• Trade and investment dispute settlement
• Trade and Public Health Regulations
• Digital commerce – law and policy issues
• Commercial issues relating to the Belt and Road Initiative and the Indo-Pacific Strategy

Areas of Specialisation

• International Trade and Investment Law
• Trade and Investment Dispute Mechanisms
• ASEAN economic integration issues

Current Projects

• Trade and Investment Dispute Avoidance and Settlement
• Trade, digital economy and sustainability issues
• ASEAN economic integration issues

Selected Publications

• Locknie Hsu, "Dispute Settlement for ASEAN Businesses under the Belt and Road Initiative - New Possibilities and Directions", Edward Elgar Publishing (2022)
• Locknie Hsu, "Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies in ASEAN: Mapping Priorities to Economic Treaty Negotiations" [2022] 9:2 JICL 125-148
• Locknie Hsu, "The Evolution of the ‘Trade and …’ ‘Debate’ – A View from ASEAN", JIEL (December 2022).
• Locknie Hsu (2021), Chapter, “International Trade and Investment and the Belt and Road Initiative”, in “ASEAN and the Belt and Road Initiative – Connectivity through Law and Commerce (gen. ed. Basil C. Bitas, Academy Publishing, 2021)
• Locknie Hsu (2020), “ASEAN and the Belt and Road Initiative: Trust-building in Trade and Investment”, (2020) China and the World: Ancient and Modern Silk Road, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1-43
• Locknie Hsu (2018), Chapter on Singapore, "Essentials of the Laws of the Belt and Road Countries", Zhejiang University Press, 2018
• SMU-funded Research Report, “Improving Connectivity between ASEAN’s Legal Systems to Address Commercial Issues”, published 22 March 2018 (available at: http://www.canasean.com/reports/).
• Locknie Hsu, book on trade and investment law, innovation and access to medicines (February 2016, Cambridge University Press) see http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/international-trade-law/trade-investment-innovation-and-their-impact-access-medicines-asian-perspective?format=HB.
• Locknie Hsu (2015), “Regulatory Flexibilities and Tensions in Public Health and Trade – An Asian Perspective”, Asian Journal of WTO and International Health Law and Policy, Vol. 10 No. 1, 157-191
• Locknie Hsu (2015), "EU-ASEAN trade and investment relations with special focus on Singapore", Vol. 6 European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EYIEL), in the section, “Trade and investment relations between the EU and East Asia: The next frontier?”
• Locknie Hsu, “Tobacco Control in ASEAN”, chapter in “International Legal Dimensions of Tobacco Control”, Edward Elgar (July 2014)
• Locknie Hsu (2015), "Sovereign Wealth Funds: Investors in Search of an Identity in the 21^st Century", Qatar International Review of Law, 10 March 2015 (published electronically at http://www.qscience.com/toc/irl/2015/2)
• Locknie Hsu (2015), “Santiago GAPPs and Codes of Conduct: Limits and Chances of Negotiated Rules”, Chapter 4, "Research Handbook on Sovereign Wealth Funds and International Investment Law”
• Locknie Hsu (2014), “Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform - Examining the Formative Aspect of Investment Treaty Commitments: Lessons from Commercial Law and Trade Law”, Transnational Dispute Management, January 2014, Volume 11 Issue 1.
• Locknie Hsu (2013), Chapter, “The ASEAN Dispute Settlement System”, in “The ASEAN Economic Community: A Work in Progress”, (2013) Institute of Southeast Asia Studies.
• Locknie Hsu (2012), “Asian Treaty-Makers and Investment Treaty Arbitration: Negotiating with a Wary Eye”, [2012] 5:2 Contemporary Asia Arbitration Journal, 243-263.
• Locknie Hsu (2012), “Tobacco Regulation and Its Discontents: A Cautious View from Singapore”, Volume 9  Issue 5 November 2012, Transnational Dispute Management.
• Locknie Hsu (2012), “ Inward FDI in Singapore and its Policy Context”, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment FDI Profiles project, 31 May 2012 (published electronically at:http://www.vcc.columbia.edu/files/vale/documents/Singapore_IFDI_-_FINAL_-_31_May_2012.pdf )
• Locknie Hsu (2011), "Investment Treaty Disputes: Ideological Fault Lines and an Evolving Zeitgeist", December 2011, Vol. 12 No. 6,  Journal of World Trade & Investment, 827-953.
• Locknie Hsu (2010), Chapter, “China, India and Dispute Settlement in the WTO and RTAs” in “China, India and the International World Order”, ed. Sornarajah and Wang, 2010, Cambridge University Press.
• Locknie Hsu (2010), "2009-2010: A Decade of Security-Related Developments in Trade and Investment", October 2010, 11:5 Journal of World Investment and Trade, 697-729.
• Locknie Hsu (2010), Chapter, "Different Approaches to Dispute Resolution under ASEAN and NAFTA ", in ASEAN-Canada Forum 2008, Regional Economic Integration: ASEAN and Canadian Perspectives", 2010, ASEAN Studies Centre, Institute of Southeast Asia Studies.
• Locknie Hsu (2009), "Multi-Sourced Norms Affecting Sovereign Wealth Funds: A Comparative View of National Laws, Cross-Border Treaties and 'Codes' ", Dec 2009, 10:6 Journal of World Investment & Trade, 793-828.
• Locknie Hsu (2009), “Sovereign Wealth Funds, Recent US Legislative Changes, and Treaty Obligations”, Journal of World Trade, 43, 3, 451-477
• Locknie Hsu (2009), “Public Policy Considerations in International Arbitration: Costs and Other Issues - A View from Singapore”, Journal of International Arbitration, 26,1, 101-131
• Locknie Hsu (2008), “The ASEAN Charter and a Legal Identity for ASEAN", in "The ASEAN Community, Unblocking the Roadblocks", Institute of Southeast Asia Studies
• Locknie Hsu (2007), “WTO Decisions - Compliance and Implementation”, paper presented at the Fifth WTO Annual Conference organized by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law; published, BIICL
• Locknie Hsu (2006), Chapter, “Applicability of WTO Law in Regional Trade Agreements: Identifying the Links”, in “Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO”, eds. Bartel and Ortino, Oxford University Press
• Locknie Hsu (2006), “Government Procurement under RTAs and Asian Perspectives and Practices”, Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy, 1, 2, 379-396
• Locknie Hsu (2006), “MFN and Dispute Settlement – When the Twain Meet”, Journal of World Investment, 7, 1, 25-37
• Locknie Hsu (2006), Laws of Singapore website project, Chapter 7, “Singapore’s FTAs: Legal Developments”, Singapore Academy of Law (chapter found at http://www.singaporelaw.sg/content/FreeTrade.html)
• Locknie Hsu (2005), Chapter, “Towards an ASEAN Charter: Some Thoughts from the Legal Perspective”, in “Framing the ASEAN Charter”, Institute of Southeast Asia Studies
• Locknie Hsu (2005), “Non-violation Complaints – WTO Issues and Recent Free Trade Agreements”, Journal of World Trade, 39, 2, 205-237
• Locknie Hsu (2004), Chapter, “ASEAN Community: Institutional Implications”, in “Towards Realizing an ASEAN Community, Institute of Southeast Asia Studies
• Locknie Hsu (2003), “ASEAN Economic Community: A Fillip for the Future”, Trading Arrangements in the Pacific - ASEAN and APEC, Release 2003-6, Oceana Publications Inc, New York.
• Locknie Hsu (2003), “The Law and the Elderly in Singapore – The Law on Income and Maintenance for the Elderly”, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, 398-417
• Locknie Hsu (2003), Paper, ASEAN Law Conference, “Application of WTO in ASEAN”, published in ASEAN Law Association conference book
• Locknie Hsu (2003), Book Review, “Regional Trading Agreements in the GATT/WTO”,Journal of International Economic Law, 6, 1
• Locknie Hsu (2003), “Dispute Settlement Systems in Recent Free Trade Agreements of Singapore: ANZSCEP, JSEPA and ESFTA”, Journal of World Investment, 277-314
• Locknie Hsu & Dora Neo (2000), “International Encyclopaedia of Laws - Commercial and Economic Law (Singapore)”, Kluwer Law International
• Locknie Hsu (2000), “Orders for Security for Costs and International Arbitrations in Singapore”, International Arbitration Law Review, 3, 4
• Locknie Hsu (2000), “Applying the International Arbitration Act”, International Arbitration Law Review, 3, 2, 44-45
• Locknie Hsu (2000), “Section 15 of the Singapore International Arbitration Act”,International Arbitration Law Review, 2, 1, 17-21
• Locknie Hsu (1998), “The New Singapore Law on Anti-dumping and Countervailing Duties”, Journal of World Trade, 121-137.
• Locknie Hsu (1994), “Adoption of the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration in Singapore”, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, 387-416.