He received his DPhil in public international law from the University of Oxford. He also holds an LLM from Harvard Law School. Before he joined the CUHK in 2009, he was an associate attorney in the New York office of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP. He specializes in international economic law, corporate law and Chinese law. His recent publications include ' The Rise of National Regulatory Autonomy in the GATT/WTO Regime' (JIEL, 2011) and 'Standard of Review under the SPS Agreement after EC- Hormones II' (ICLQ, 2010).