Dr. Han-Wei Liu joined the Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University as a Lecturer in January 2018. Prior to his appointment at Monash, he was Assistant Professor of Law at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. Dr. Liu works in the areas of international economic law, law and technology, international law, and global governance. Before entering academia, he practiced with Baker & McKenzie and Russin & Vecchi. Han-Wei earned his Ph.D., summa cum laude, from the Graduate Institute, Geneva (IHEID), where he was awarded full scholarship by Kathryn Davis Foundation and his master degrees from Columbia Law School and Oxford University on the Taiwan Government Scholarship and the British Chevening Scholarship, respectively. He received his LL.M. and LL.B. degrees from National Chengchi University. His publications appear in renowned international law journals like Journal of International Economic Law, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Journal of World Trade, Columbia Journal of Asian Law, and Melbourne Journal of International Law. Han-Wei was invited to present his works in conferences held by Cambridge, Duke, the Graduate Institute, Geneva, Warwick, the Society of International Economic Law, and Asian Society of International Law, among others. In 2013-2015, he held visiting posts at Harvard Law School and Columbia Law School. Dr. Liu received several research grants from Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Economic Affairs and had advised high-tech firms and government-funded think-tanks on regulations of digital communication, cross-border data flow, and technology transfer/export control issues. In addition to his editorial role at Columbia Journal of European Law in 2009, Dr. Liu currently sits on the editorial board of Manchester Journal of International Economic Law and Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs.

​