Board of Directors

W.R. Cornish: Emeritus Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law, President of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, UK

Gordon Woodman: Professor of Comparative Law, University of Birmingham, UK

Gerard Rault: Judge John D. Wessel Distingushed Professor of Law, Louisiana State University, USA

Joan Brockman: Professor of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, CANADA

Alison W. Conner: Professor of Law, University of Hawaii, USA

Michael J E Palmer: Professor of Law, SOAS, University of London, UK

Randy Peerenboom: Professor of Law, UCLA, USA

Mary Robinson, Chair, Ethical Globalization Initiative, USA

Jiang Ping: Professor of Law and Former President, China University of Politics and Law, CHINA

Zeng Lingliang: Dean and Professor of Law, Wuhan University, CHINA

Tony Kwok Man-wai: Anti-Corruption Consultant, Former Deputy Commissioner, Independent Commission against Corruption, HONG KONG, CHINA

Jinyan Li, Professor of Law, Osgoode Law School, York University, Canada

Nicholas Howson: Director of the Chinese Legal Studies Program, University of Michigan, USA

Hongming Cheng: Assistant Professor of Law, Crime and Society, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Staff

President: Robert Sampson

Executive Director: Hongming Cheng

Office Manager: May Chen

Membership officer: Megan Qin

Prominent Member 2011

Presently leading Realizing Rights: the Ethical Globalization Initiative, Mary Robinson is a world renowned human rights activist and a trailblazer for women’s rights and leadership. She was the first woman President of Ireland (1990-1997) and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002). She has spent most of her life as a human rights advocate. As an academic (Trinity College Law Faculty 1968-90), legislator (Senator 1969-89) and barrister (1967-90, Senior Counsel 1980, English Bar 1973) she has always sought to use law as an instrument for social change, arguing landmark cases before the European Court of Human Rights, the Irish courts and the European Court in Luxemburg. She also served as Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders.