Contact Dr Xiang Gao

Position

Dr Xiang Gao is a Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law and Director of China Law Programs of the School of Law at the UC.

Professional Memberships

Dr Gao is also a guest professor of the Law School of Renmin University and adjunct professor of North Power University of the PRC, and a senior fellow at the Tim Fisher Center for Global Trade & Finance, Bond University.

Qualifications

Dr Gao holds a Diploma from Shanxi Teachers College, a BA from Beijing Foreign Studies University, an LLM from China University of Political Science and Law, an LLM and a PhD from the University of New South Wales.

Past Professional Experience

Before joining the UC in April 2004, Dr Gao was a judge of the Supreme Peoples Court of the PRC, once served a member of the judicial committee and deputy president of the Qinhuangdao Intermediate Peoples Court, and a visiting fellow at the Yale Law School.

Teaching

Corporate Law, International Trade Law, Law of Financial Institutions.

Research & Publications

Dr Gao specializes in commercial law with a particular emphasis on international trade law, international banking and finance law, and has published widely in both Chinese and English. His publications in the area of letters of credit include a monograph The Fraud Rule in the Law of Letters of Credit A Comparative Study by Kluwer Law International and a number of articles in international law journals such as the Oxford University Comparative Law Forum, Lloyds Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law, Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law.

Dr Gao is the drafter of the Rules of the Supreme Peoples Court concerning Several Issues in Hearing Letter of Credit Cases, and has been regularly invited to speak to judges, lawyers and bankers on the law of letters of credit. He was one of the experts invited by United Nations Commission on International Trade Law to study the UN Convention on Independent Guarantees and Standby Letters of Credit in September 2002 at Ft. Lauderdale in the US, to attend at its Meeting of Group of Experts on Commercial Fraud in December 2002 in Vienna, and to organize and chair sessions of its Conference on Commercial Fraud in April 2004 in Vienna. Dr Gao is a panelist and a member of the Legal Advisory Council for the Institute of International Banking Law and Practice.