15 February 2024
CIBEL would like to welcome our newest members, Professor Lisa Toohey and Professor Mimi Zou. Professor Toohey and Professor Zou bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to our team, and we are excited to work alongside them in the future.
Find out more about Lisa:
Professor Lisa Toohey is an internationally recognised expert in trade law, focussing especially on WTO dispute settlement who rejoined UNSW in February 2024. She was one of CIBEL’s original founding members in 2015 and prior to academia practised as a lawyer in Australia and Vietnam. Lisa currently leads two externally funded projects, one on Traceability and Trade in the Asia-Pacific, and the second on Weaponised Trade. She is available for supervision of PhD projects within her areas of expertise.
Find out more about Mimi:
Mimi is Professor of Law and incoming Head of School at the School of Private and Commercial Law at UNSW. She previously held the Chair in Commercial Law at the University of Exeter, UK. She was appointed to the first Chinese law fellowship at the University of Oxford 2017-2020. Her research is primarily in the areas of comparative contract, commercial and employment law, particularly legal and regulatory issues raised by new and emerging technologies. In 2021, Mimi received the British Academy Talent Development Award, the only legal scholar to have obtained this achievement to date. The Award recognises influential researchers in the social sciences and humanities who are developing innovative approaches in their fields and creating new opportunities for knowledge and skills exchange across disciplines. She has held several high-profile advisory roles for international organisations and the UK government. In a previous appointment at the University of Oxford, she founded and led Oxford's first lawtech lab. She has been called to the Bar in England and Wales and admitted as a solicitor in NSW. She was a Commonwealth Scholar at Oxford, where she completed the DPhil and BCL.