Book Discussion: Extraterritoriality in East Asia: Extraterritorial Criminal Jurisdiction in China, Japan, and South Korea

Chair: Professor Matthew Dyson (Oxford)

Extraterritoriality in East Asia examines the approaches of China, Japan and South Korea to exercising legal authority over crimes committed outside their borders, known as ‘extraterritorial jurisdiction’. It considers themes of justiciability and approaches to international law, as well as relevant examples of legislation and judicial decision-making, to offer a deeper understanding of the topic from the perspective of this legally, politically and economically significant region.

Danielle Ireland-Piper is Associate Professor at the ANU National Security College and Honorary Adjunct Associate Professor at Bond University Faculty of Law. Her teaching and research expertise includes constitutional law, comparative law, and international law (including space law, citizenship law, human rights, the laws of armed conflict, climate law, and transnational criminal law), as well as the intersection between these areas of law and matters of national security law and policy. Danielle has extensively researched exercises of extraterritoriality in comparative context, particularly as relates to criminal offences. In her capacity as an Honorary Adjunct Associate Professor at Bond University, Danielle is also a member of the Bond University Technology and Jurisdiction Research Team. She has a PhD from the University of Queensland and an LLM from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Chevening and Pegasus Scholar. Danielle also has experience in government and in private legal practice.

Sanzhuan (Sandra) Guo is Senior Lecturer in Law at Flinders University, Australia. She is an international lawyer, specialising in human rights and international migration law. She is co-author of Chapter 3 of Extraterritoriality in East Asia: Extraterritorial Criminal Jurisdiction in China, Japan, and South Korea (Edward Elgar 2021), and has published widely on international and comparative law. She is a Co-Rapporteur of the International Law Association's newly established Committee of International Migration and International Law (2022-2026). Sandra has a PhD from Peking University Law School (China), JD from Melbourne Law School (Australia) and LLM from Northwestern University School of Law (USA). She is qualified to practise law in three distinct jurisdictions – Australia, China and USA and she has been an accredited immigration law specialist in Australia since October 2016. 

Heetae Bae (Andrew) is a legal practitioner in Australia. He is co-author of Chapter 5 of Extraterritoriality in East Asia: Extraterritorial Criminal Jurisdiction in China, Japan, and South Korea (Edward Elgar 2021). Heetae has a degree in Applied Finance (Macquarie University, 2011-2014), and a Juris Doctor (Bond University, 1st Class Honours, 2017-2020). He was selected as a student volunteer in Bond Law Clinics for Immigration Law and Commercial Law matters and completed an oversea exchange program to University of Oslo, Norway, completing International Law subjects particularly in Public International Law, International Humanitarian Law, and International Human Rights Law. Heetae was also research assistant to Dr. Danielle Ireland-Piper at Bond University. Heetae served in the Republic of Korea Navy, completing his service as Petty Officer Second Class (2015-2017).

Jianlin Chen is Professor at Melbourne Law School. Jianlin grew up in Singapore and Taiwan. He obtained his LLB from National University of Singapore, and his LLM and JSD from the University of Chicago. He is qualified to practice in Singapore and New York. He joined the Melbourne Law School in 2017 after starting his academic career at the University of Hong Kong in 2011. Bilingual in English and Chinese, Jianlin publishes widely, with a monograph from Cambridge University Press, and in law journals such as UNSW Law Journal, Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Law & Social Inquiry, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 公司法评论, 北大法律评论. His current primary research interests are law & religion and criminal law, with a particular focus on fraud (e.g., religious fraud regulation, fraudulent sex criminalization ) and through a combination of comparative perspectives and economic analysis.