[Webinar] Trusts Law in the Asia-Pacific Region: Modern Trends and Contemporary Issues

Associate Professor Ying Khai Liew
Melbourne Law School
University of Melbourne

Ying Khai Liew is an Associate Professor at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. He specialises in private law, with a particular focus on the law of equity and trusts, contracts, remedies, and the law of assignment. Ying is the General Editor of the Asia-Pacific Trusts Law book series (Hart Publishing). Volume 1, Theory and Practice in Context (co-edited with Matthew Harding) was published in 2021; Volume 2, Adaptation in Context (co-edited with Ying-Chieh Wu) will be published in 2022. Ying is also the author of Rationalising Constructive Trusts (Hart Publishing 2017) and Guest on the Law of Assignment (currently in its fourth edition, Sweet & Maxwell 2021). He is an editor of the Journal of Equity, and at the Melbourne Law School he is Associate Director (Private Law) of the Asian Law Centre.

Professor Katy Barnett
Melbourne Law School
University of Melbourne

Katy Barnett is a Professor at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, specialising in remedies, trust law, contract and restitution. She has written on offshore trusts in the Asia-Pacific, concentrating on the law of the Cook Islands, Niue, and Samoa. As a world-leading academic commentator on offshore trusts in the South Pacific, she has been invited by Australian media outlets to comment on the significance of the Pandora Papers. She is also the author of several books, including Accounting for Profit for Breach of Contract: Theory and Practice (2012, Hart Publishing), Remedies in Australian Private Law (2nd edition, 2018, Cambridge University Press) with Dr Sirko Harder, and Guilty Pigs: the weird and wonderful history of animal law (La Trobe University Press, 2022) with Professor Jeremy Gans.

Professor Lusina Ho
Faculty of Law 
The University of Hong Kong

Lusina Ho is the Harold Hsiao-Wo Lee Professor in Trust and Equity at the Faculty of Law, the University of Hong Kong. Her main research interests are in the law of trusts, equitable remedies, and comparative trusts. She is the author of Trust Law in China (Sweet & Maxwell Asia 2003), and has edited, amongst others, an essay collection entitled Trust Law in Asian Civil Law Jurisdictions: A Comparative Analysis (CUP 2013, with Rebecca Lee). She has published widely and her work has been cited in the highest appellate courts in common law jurisdictions.

Associate Professor Wu Ying-Chieh
School of Law
Seoul National University

Wu Ying-Chieh's main teaching and research areas are property and trusts, and comparative private law. He received his LLB and LLM degrees from Korea University and holds MSt and DPhil degrees from the University of Oxford. Before joining Seoul National University, he taught at National Taiwan University’s College of Law and at Singapore Management University’s School of Law. He has taught and written in English, Korean and Chinese. He has contributed to the books Trust Law in Asian Civil Law Jurisdictions: A Comparative Analysis (edited by Lusina Ho and Rebecca Lee, CUP, 2013) and Asia-Pacific Trusts Law: Adaptation in Context (co-edited), which will be published in 2022.
 

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