Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce that Professor Betty Ho will be joining the Faculty on August 1, 2008 as a Full Professor of Law. 

Prof. Ho is one of China's preeminent legal scholars, with expertise in corporate, commercial and financial law. She is also an arbitrator at the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission. Her current research interests include corporate and commercial law as well as legal process, particularly the role of law in the administrative state.

Prof. Ho is currently a Professor of Law at Tsinghua University Law School in Beijing.  She earned her B.A. from Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles, her M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, her LL.B. from the University of Toronto ('77) and her LL.M. from Cambridge.  She has practised law in Toronto and Hong Kong and taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong before joining Tsinghua in 2002.

Prof. Ho has been an extremely successful distinguished visitor here at the Faculty, teaching intensive courses on the Chinese Legal System and Chinese Banking Law.  At Tsinghua, she designed and implemented an innovative program that uses Anglo-American legal methods to teach J.D. students common law and comparative commercial law - the first and only program of its kind in China.

Through her scholarship, her training of J.D. and graduate students, her curricular reforms and her work as a lawyer and arbitrator, Prof. Ho has significantly contributed to legal developments and the building of the rule of law in China.  Her appointment will substantially enhance our reputation as one of the leading internationally-oriented law schools in the world.