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Professor Bee Chen Goh
LLB(Hons)(Malaya), LLM(Camb), SJD(Bond)
Current Appointment:	Professor
Organisational Unit:	School of Law & Justice - Tweed
Telephone:	07 5589 3058
Email:	bgoh@scu.edu.au
Location:	A3.28
Campus:	Gold Coast
ePublications:	http://works.bepress.com/beechen_goh/
Brief Biographical Details A former Malaysian Rhodes Scholar, Professor Bee Chen Goh is a Fellow and Director of the Australian Academy of Law. She specialized in International Law at Cambridge, and is a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society. She was a Visiting Researcher at the Harvard Law School in the Summer of 1993. Bee Chen is also a Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, London. Bee Chen was Head of School, School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University (2006-2009). Currently the School Director of Community Engagement and Co-Director of the Centre for Peace and Social Justice, Bee Chen is also a Member of the University's Inter-Faith Committee. She also serves on the Committee of the Gold Coast District Law Association, a regional chapter of the Queensland Law Society. In the field of Chinese Negotiation (also the focus of her doctoral thesis), Bee Chen has published, and presented papers in Australia, New Zealand, the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Norway. Bee Chen is well-versed in English, Mandarin, Malay/Indonesian and Hokkien (Taiwanese). Major Publications: Negotiating with the Chinese (1996, Dartmouth) (Hardback); Law Without Lawyers, Justice Without Courts - On Traditional Chinese Mediation (Ashgate 2002) (Hardback); Activating Human Rights and Peace: Theories, Practices and Contexts (Ashgate June 2012) (Hardback) (Edited by Goh, Offord and Garbutt). Areas of Expertise Alternative Dispute Resolution International Law of Peace Law and Religion Contract Law Areas of Teaching Mediation and Dispute Resolution Mediating Across Cultures Contract Law International Law Research Interests Alternative Dispute Resolution (with a focus on Sino-Western issues) International Law of Peace Law and Religion Affiliations Fellow and Director of the Australian Academy of Law Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, London Co-Director of Centre for Peace and Social Justice, Southern Cross University Member of Centre for Tourism, Leisure and Work, Southern Cross University Research Collaborator of Research Unit for the Study of Society, Law and Religion, University of Adelaide Member of Southern Cross University's Inter-Faith Committee Committee member of the Gold Coast District Law Association, a regional chapter of the Queensland Law Society Member of Women Lawyers Association of Queensland
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