Hsieh, Pasha

Pasha L. Hsieh is the Lee Kong Chian Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Chair at the Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law. He previously served as the Associate Dean for Research and has held visiting faculty positions at leading universities including the University of Melbourne and Seoul National University. He received his degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and holds a PhD in Political Science from the Free University of Brussels. Prior to academia, he was a Legal Affairs Officer at the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat and 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, and international law journals of Cornell, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Northwestern universities, as well as peer-reviewed political science journals. The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, the United Nations ESCAP, and the OECD have cited his work.

He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of International Economic Law, the Journal of World Investment & Trade, and the Asia Pacific Law Review, and serves as a panel member of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. He has been invited to present on trade and sustainability issues by the European Parliament, the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, the ASEAN Secretariat, and the Singapore Judicial College. His leadership roles include serving as Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law’s Asia-Pacific Interest Group and as an Executive Council Member of the Society of International Economic Law.

During Hsieh’s Associate Research Fellowship at UNU-CRIS, he will work in close collaboration with the UNU-CRIS Economic and Political Interactions Cluster and the Nature, Climate and Health Cluster. In particular, he will be involved in Nidhi Nagabhatla’s research project on “EIA and Trade as a Gateway to Green Regionalism” and will further develop the concepts of green regionalism in the Asia-Pacific and beyond.