Visiting Scholars
The U.S.-Asia Law Institute hosts a small number of outstanding scholars each year. Our visiting scholars have included judges, prosecutors, lawyers, legal journalists, and legislators as well as academics. Learn more about how to become a USALI Visiting Scholar.
Elizabeth Chien-Hale
Elizabeth Chien-Hale is a partner at Appleton Luff, an international law firm in California. Her research focus is on international intellectual property and international trade, especially as they relate to resolving the on-going dispute across the Taiwan Strait.
Cheol Hwan Choi
Cheol Hwan Choi is a senior attorney at Kim & Chang Law (South Korea) with over 24 years of litigation and investigation experience in both the public and private sectors. His research focus is on the scope of unfair methods of competition under Section 5 of the US Federal Trade Commission Act.
Xu’er Ou
Xu’er Ou is a Ph.D. candidate in comparative law at Renmin University of China. Her research focus is on judicial practice and normative framework in defining the boundaries of employees’ freedom of speech in China.
Yoichiro Hamabe
Yoichiro Hamabe is a professor of law at the Aoyama-Gakuin University Department of Law in Japan. His research focus is on corporate governance, specifically the impact of ESG standards in this field.
Jae Young Ryu
Jae Young Ryu is a judge at Seoul Central District Court of South Korea. Her research focus is on comparative study of judicial systems, specifically comparing actual and recommended methods of evaluating judicial performance in South Korea and the United States.
Eungi Hong
Eungi Hong has been a judge in South Korea since 2009, with her current appointment in the Seoul Central District Court. At USALI, she researches the legal status of undocumented immigrant children from the perspective of international law.
Tanaka Yu
Tanaka Yu is an assistant judge at Fukuoka District Court of Japan. His research focus is on comparing judicial management of complex corporate litigation in the United States and Japan
Masahito Toki
Masahito Toki is an associate professor at Graduate Schools for Law and Politics of University of Tokyo. His research focus is on enhancing the effectiveness of labor law by approaching the debate on ‘Business and Human Rights’ in the U.S.
Shulan Yang
Shulan Yang is a judge at Taiwan High Court. Her research focus is no the theory and practice of online dispute resolution (ODR) mechanisms, specifically in resolving family law disputes.
Taoran Zhang
Taoran Zhang is an academic secretary at the administrative department of China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization Training Base for International Judicial Exchange and Cooperation of Shanghai University of Political Science and Law. Her research focus is on building an independent legal knowledge system in China, specifically understanding the evolution of China’s “independent legal knowledge system.”