Zhao Yun (, born 23 October 1974) is a
Hong Kong lawyer specialising in
space law and
international economic law. He is Professor and Head of the Department of Law of the
University of Hong Kong since 2016.
Biography
From 1991 to 1998 he studied at the
China University of Political Science and Law in
Beijing. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1995 and a master's degree in 1998. Then from 1998 to 1999, Zhao studied at the
Leiden University
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in the
Netherlands, where he obtained a master's degree in
public international law.
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From 2000 to 2003 Zhao studied at the
Erasmus University
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in
Rotterdam (the
Netherlands). From 2000 to 2002 he worked as Researcher at the Faculty of Law. In 2003, he graduated from Erasmus University with a
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in
international law.
Zhao started his career at the School of Law of
City University of Hong Kong in 2002, where he taught dispute resolution, cyber law for business, business law, e-commerce law until 2008. Then in 2008 he joined the Department of Law of the
University of Hong Kong, teaching introduction to Chinese law, china trade law, PRC information technology law, and online dispute resolution.
From 2013 to 2017 he held a position of the Director of the Center for Chinese Law at the University of Hong Kong. From 2016 to the present he is Head of the Department of Law of the University of Hong Kong.
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— '' University of Hong Kong'' (archive version, 23 May 2016)
He is also Professor in International Law at the
Xiamen University and Professor at the
Shanghai University of International Business and Economics (before 2013 called Shanghai University of Foreign Trade). He is listed as arbitrator in several international arbitration commissions.
On 24 June 2018, Zhao was appointed as the Supreme Justice of
Asgardia
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, a self-styled "Space Nation" during the first parliamentary session in
Vienna, where he was introduced to the elected Members of Asgardia's "Parliament". Supreme Justice supervises the operation of four judicial panels: a "constitutional" panel; a "civil" panel; an "administrative" panel; and a "criminal" panel.
Research work
Zhao's specialized areas:
space law,
dispute resolution,
international economic law,
e-commerce law. In the past few years, Mr. Zhao has conducted different research in the area of space exploration. He is also currently exploring significant topics such as the problem of space debris, the exploration of the space resources, the non-appropriation principle in space, etc.
Zhao is convinced that Hong Kong needs to update its 23-year-old outer space law to keep pace with the growing use of commercial satellites both in the city and overseas. Hong Kong introduced the
Outer Space Act 1986
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in 1990 and the