Judge Xiang Gao
Judge Gao is a professor of law and Director of the Centre of International Banking Law & Practice at the China University of Political Science & Law in the PRC, arbitrator for the China International Economic & Trade Arbitration Commission and for the Beijing Arbitration Commission, and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Canberra, Australia. He is also guest professor at the Law School of Renmin University of the PRC, Senior Fellow at the Tim Fisher Center for Global Trade & Finance, Bond University of Australia, and member of the Legal Advisory Council for the Institute of International Banking Law and Practice in the US. He was a judge of the Supreme People’s Court of the PRC specialising in foreign trade and investment law, the chief drafter of China’s LC regulation, the Rules of the Supreme People’s Court concerning Several Issues in Hearing Letter of Credit Cases, before becoming an academic. He is regularly invited to speak to judges, lawyers and bankers on the law of letters of credit.
Judge Gao specializes in commercial law with a particular emphasis on international trade law, international banking and finance law. His publications 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 Lloyd’s Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly, the University of New South Wales Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law, the International Lawyer and Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law.