Professor Bee Chen Goh is the first Malaysian woman Rhodes Scholar. 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. She is a Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, London. Bee Chen’s particular teaching and research interests are International Law, with a special focus on International Law of Peace, Alternative Dispute Resolution (especially on Chinese, and Cross-cultural Negotiation, and traditional Chinese mediation), and Contract Law. 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, Hokkien (Taiwanese) and Cantonese.
Since arriving at Southern Cross University as Head of School, School of Law and Justice, in July 2006, Bee Chen has also assumed the following roles:
• Co-Director of the Centre for Peace & Social Justice
• Advisory Board Member of the Centre for Children & Young People
• Advisory Board Member of the Aged Services Learning and Research Collaboration
• University Inter-Faith Committee Member
Major Publications:
• Negotiating with the Chinese (1996, Dartmouth) (Hardback);
• Law Without Lawyers, Justice Without Courts - On Traditional Chinese Mediation (Ashgate 2002) (Hardback)
Current Research:
‘The idea of Peace as a human consciousness movement in the development of contemporary International Law’
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