Regulating globalization in South & Southeast Asia

Dr. Porananond (PhD, University of Glasgow) is the Director of the Center of ASEAN Transnational Studies at the Faculty of Law, Chiang Mai University. Her research interest is comparative competition law and the enactment and enforcement of competition laws in Southeast Asia and within new jurisdictions. Her book, Competition Law in the ASEAN Countries: Regional Law and National Systems (Wolters Kluwer) was published in 2018. During her stay at UVic, Dr. Porananond will be working on her current project exploring globalization of the goals of competition law, which looks into the interaction between the economic oriented goal of competition law advocated by matured competition law jurisdictions and more socially and politically inclusive ones adopted by younger jurisdictions.

Vandanet Hing is a researcher and lecturer at the Center for the Study of Humanitarian Law at the Royal University of Law and Economics in Cambodia whose time at CAPI included conducting research on "the development of international criminal law: assessing Extraordinary Chamber in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) precedents" as part of the CAPI/University of Victoria Faculty of Law project "Regulating Globalization in South and Southeast Asia."

Sunayana Ganguly is currently Assistant Professor at the Azim Premji University in Bangalore. She received her PhD in Political Science from the Freie Universität Berlin where she was affiliated with the Environmental Policy Research Centre, while working with the German Development Institute in Bonn. She was also previously, a research associate at the Industrial Ecology Group, University of Lausanne (Switzerland), working on the interdisciplinary research project on the dynamics of consumption patterns, practices and policies among new consumers in two megacities of South and South-East Asia. Her first book Deliberating Environment Policy in India - Participation and the role of advocacy was published in 2015 (Routledge). Her time at CAPI will be spent exploring themes on environmental governance, civil society and sustainable consumption with a focus on South Asia.

Thanh Phan is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Victoria, Canada (UVic). His research is co-funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Advanced Scholars. He is also teaching Engineering Law at UVic. Thanh Phan worked for the Vietnam Competition Agency (VCA) for ten years as an expert in competition law enforcement, after two years at the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam. Thanh also served as a member of the Vietnamese delegation negotiating Vietnam-EU and Vietnam-Customs Union free trade agreements. He has published journal articles in the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology, Houston Journal of International Law, Louisiana Law Review, and American Bar Association’s International Antitrust Bulletin, among others. Thanh was educated at Hanoi Law University, Nagoya University, and the University of Victoria.

Currently, he is a member of the Software Engineering Global Interaction Lab at UVic, conducting research on global governance in cyberspace. His studies focus on three topics: national jurisdiction in cyberspace, the legal aspects of smart cities, and legal obligations of platform owners in peer-to-peer markets. He is also helping edit a book titled Smart Cities in Asia: Governance and Innovation.