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Prof. DORIS Martin
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Prof. Doris joined the Faculty in 2010 and is currently the Assistant Dean for Graduate Affairs. He previously lectured in Commercial Law at the School of Law of the University of Glasgow and is a faculty member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators. He holds a first class honours in Common and Civil Law with Hispanic Studies from the Queen’s University of Belfast and read for his PhD in law at the European University Institute, Florence.
His primary teaching and research interests are in the fields of international commercial law and arbitration, contract and communications law. He is currently working on a number of funded research projects examining, in particular, the reform of domestic sales law and regulatory issues in the telecommunications sector. Prof. Doris has received substantial research funding from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, the UK Department of Education and the Spanish Ministry of Justice. His research has further been generously supported by a number of public and private institutions, including the Office of Academic Links (China), the Oñati Institute, Lee Woo Sing College and the UK based Adam Smith Research Foundation.
A member of the East Asia Branch Committee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, he has previously served on the Executive Committee of the Hong Kong Corporate Counsel Association. He is co Editor-in-Chief of the Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration and served on the editorial board of the International Journal of Private Law from 2008-2012. He has held visiting research positions at Sydney Law School, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Birmingham and the Institute of European Studies in Madrid.
Prof. Doris welcomes proposals for doctoral supervision in the fields of transnational private law, commercial dispute resolution and telecommunications law and policy.
Education
- PhD (European University Institute, Florence)
- LLB (Queen’s University, Belfast)
Professional Qualifications and Recognitions
- Fellow (Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators)
- Fellow (UK Higher Education Academy)
- Fellow (European Law Institute)
- Faculty member (Chartered Institute of Arbitrators)
- European Mediation Training for Practitioners of Justice (AIA, Brussels)
- BVC (College of Law, London)
Research Fields
- Contract law
- International and domestic sales law
- Arbitration and commercial dispute resolution
- Telecommunications law and policy
Awards and Recognitions
- Global Research Excellence Scholar, Office of Academic Links (China), Hong Kong
- Phoenicia scholar, Bar European Group, London
- Sir John Holt scholar, The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn, London
- Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs ‘Salvador de Madariaga’ Scholar, Madrid
- Edgar Graham memorial scholar, Queen’s University, Belfast
- Grand Jury Bursary Prize, Queen’s University, Belfast
- Law Society of Northern Ireland annual scholar
Research Funding (selection)
- ‘Innovation and Competition in the Telecommunications Sector’, RGC Public Policy Research Grant (Co-I), Hong Kong (2012)
- ‘Modernising Domestic Sales Law – The Impact of European and Transnational Law and Practice’, DG Research Grant (PI), Hong Kong (2012)
- Lee Woo Sing College Conference Bursary (2012)
- UEF-China/Sino British Trust fund, Hong Kong (2011)
- International Institute for the Sociology of Law Conference and Workshop Fund, Oñati, Spain (2011)
- Adam Smith Research Foundation seedcorn fund, Glasgow, UK (2008)
Representative Publications
Monographs:
- Dispute Avoidance and European Contract Law, European Studies in Private Law Series, Europa Law Publishing (2008)
Commentaries/Collections:
- The Sale of Goods Ordinance, Hong Kong Commentary and Annotations Library Series, Sweet & Maxwell, forthcoming
Articles & Book Chapters
- Promising options, dead ends and the reform of Australian contract law, Legal Studies, forthcoming
- The role of the ECJ in re-defining the relationship between EU competition law enforcement and the European Convention on Human Rights (with S. Marco Colino) in Diez-Hochleitner Rodriguez et al (eds), Ultimas tendencias en la jurisprudencia del Tribunal de Justicia de la Union Europea, Wolters Kluwer (2012)
- Developing consumer ODR in the European Union – a model to imitate? (2012) 22(9) Australian Product Liability Reporter 280
- Taking solace in self exclusion? Problem gambling, a duty of care and the impact on EC Private Law (2009) 17(3) European Review of Private Law 387 (with S. Marco Colino)
- Harmonising by numbers (2007) 32(6) European Law Review 878
- Bargaining and reliance in new European contract law (2007) 3 InDret 1
- A European insurance market and EC contract law (2007) 10 European Current Law 6
- Online gambling – Reconciling new technology and the International consumer interest (with S. Marco Colino) in Law and Technology, Acta Press (2007)
- The continued resonance and challenge of the ius commune for modern EC contract law (2006) 34(2) International Journal of Legal Information 391
- Cross border contracting in the European Union – Interoperability problems and the impact of a Community wide Optional Instrument (2005) 11(2) Tilburg Foreign Law Review 36
Reviews
- Review of Solove, “Understanding privacy” (2010) 14(3) Edinburgh Law Review 543
- Review of Saidov, “The law of damages in International sales: The CISG and other International instruments” (2009) 13(1) Edinburgh Law Review 540
- Review of MacQueen & Zimmermann (eds), “European contract law – Scots & South African perspectives” (2007) 32(4) European Law Review 600
Submissions/Reports
- Submission to the Hong Kong Legislative Council’s Panel on the Administration of Justice and Legal Services on the provision of domestic mediation services, April 2013
- Submission to the Attorney-General’s Department of the Australian Government on the reform of Australian contract law, July 2012
- Submission to the Hong Kong Legislative Council on the proposal for a Mediation Ordinance, January 2012
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