Professor Pasha L Hsieh

Overview

Pasha L Hsieh (謝笠天) is Jean Monnet Chair Professor and Lee Kong Chian Fellow at the Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law. He received his JD and LLM degrees from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was a Senior Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Additionally, he holds a PhD in Political Science from the Free University of Brussels. Prior to academia, he served as a Legal Affairs Officer at the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat and as an associate at Shearman & Sterling LLP.

Hsieh’s teaching and research primarily focus on international economic law, public international law, and Asian legal studies. His monograph, New Asian Regionalism in International Economic Law, was published by Cambridge University Press and has been translated into Chinese and Japanese. He co-edited the book, ASEAN Law in the New Regional Economic Order: Global Trends and Shifting Paradigms, also published by Cambridge University Press. His scholarly work has appeared in the Leiden Journal of International Law, the Journal of International Economic Law, the World Trade Review, the ICSID Review, Cornell, Michigan, and Northwestern international law journals, and peer-reviewed political science journals. The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, the United Nations ESCAP, and the OECD have cited his work.

Hsieh is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of International Economic Law and the Journal of World Investment & Trade and a panel member of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. He has been invited to present on trade and sustainability law issues by the European Parliament, the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, the ASEAN Secretariat, and the Singapore Judicial College. He was the Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law-Asia-Pacific Interest Group and an Executive Council Member of the Society of International Economic Law. He has been awarded SMU’s Lee Foundation Fellowship for Research Excellence, the Most Outstanding Legal Studies Teacher Award, and the Lee Kong Chian Fellowships. He has also won competitive research grants from the European Commission, the Korea Foundation, the Sumitomo Foundation of Japan, and the Ministries of Education of Singapore and Taiwan.