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Professor Goo, Say Hak 吳世學

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Professor Goo, Say Hak 吳世學

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Biography

Say H Goo is Professor and Director of the Faculty’s Asian Institute of International Financial Law (AIIFL) and Japan and Korea Programme. He joined HKU in 1995 after five years of teaching at the University of Exeter and the University of East Anglia, England. Over the years, he has taught many subjects including Contract Law, Land Law, Company Law, Insolvency Law and Trust, and Corporate Governance. In the past, he has also served as Deputy Head of Department of Law, Admissions Tutor, Founding Director of AIIFL and Founding Director of LLM (CFL) Programme.
He has acted as reviewer for Cambridge University Press, HKU Press, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Cavendish Publishing Ltd, Journal of Corporate Law Studies (UK),Hong Kong Law Journal, Company and Securities Law Journal (Australia), andJournal of Business Law (UK), and some universities’ promotion exercises. He has also appeared in local TV interviews.

He has delivered lectures in Beijing, Taipei, Tokyo, Zurich, Melbourne, Brisbane and Okinawa, and was invited by Professor John Ruggie of Harvard University (Special Representative of the Secretary General of UN on Business and Human Rights), to speak at an Expert Consultation in Toronto in Support of the Corporate Law Tools Project of the UN Special Representative and nominated by the HK Government to speak at an APEC conference in Washington DC.  He has also delivered conference papers in Shanghai, Berlin, Reading, Hong Kong, Macau, Sydney, and Singapore.

 
Honours, Awards & Prizes
AwardeesAward DateHonours / Awards / PrizesCategory
2014-04-01Fellow: Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries
Research Achievement
2014-04-01Fellow: Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators
Research Achievement
2013-05-01Honorary Visiting Professor: School of Law, University of Exeter
Research Achievement
2007-10-01Fellow: Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University
Research Achievement
2018-11-01Visiting Professor: Chuo University
Research Achievement
2019-07-01Visiting Professor: Renmin University of China
Teaching Accomplishment
2019-07-01Research Fellow研究員: Centre for Real Estate Information, Renmin University of China 中國人民大學房地產信息中心
Research Achievement
2015-04-01Distinguished Visiting Professor: East China University of Political Science and Law, International School of Financial Law
Research Achievement
2022-04-01上海政法大學人工智能法學院客座教授: 上海政法大學人工智能法學院
Research Achievement
2019-11-01上海政法大學法律學院民商法教研室駐訪學者: 上海政法大學法律學院
Research Achievement
2017-09-01Visiting Professor (elect): Columbia University, Law School, New York
Research Achievement
Professional Societies
Term PeriodPositionProfessional Societies
02/2013-06/2015member of Executive CouncilAsia-Pacific Structured Finance Association
Sep 2005 - Dec 2007reviewer/external examiner for Hong Kong Corporate Law paperHong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries
2002 - Feb 2023ConsultantHong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries
08/2014-08/2017DirectorHong Kong Insurance Law Association
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Land law
Corporate governance
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English英語
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English英文
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